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Levi
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 Message 353 of 3737
11 February 2010 at 12:38am | IP Logged 
...when you stub your toe, and your first instinct is to swear in a language other than your native tongue.
QiuJP wrote:
Johntm wrote:
When you have a hard time trying to keep yourself from trying to learn several more languages when you are still working on your first...


Guilty. I have wanderlust to pickup Malay or Indonesian when I need to spent more time on Russian!

I've been bitten by the wanderlust bug too (...again). I'm struggling to juggle five languages as it is, and now I want to study Dutch too!

Edited by Levi on 11 February 2010 at 12:41am

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meramarina
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 Message 354 of 3737
11 February 2010 at 2:09am | IP Logged 
We are really the nerdiest word nerds on the internet, but we would be even NERDIER if we knew how to declare our status in several languages. This is somewhat lazy research from Google Translate, so please correct/add to the list if you know the correct term!

I think I like Linguanerd the best! That would be a cool username.

Albanian: budalla gjuhën
Croatian: jezik glupan
Czech: Jazyk nerd
Estonian: keel nerd
Greek: nerd γλώσσα
French: langue nerd
Hungarian: Nyelv nerd
Afrikaans/Dutch: Taal nerd
Icelandic: Tungumál
Indonesian: bahasa aneh
Italian: lingua nerd
Japanese: 言語オタク
Danish: Sprog nerd
Irish: nerd teanga
Finnish: kieli moukka
German: Sprache nerd (one word looks better: Sprachenerd?)
Persian: زبان
Macedonian: јазик nerd
Romanian: Nerd limbaj
Russian: Язык NERD
Swahili: lugha nerd
Turkish: dil nerd


Edited by meramarina on 11 February 2010 at 2:09am

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kyssäkaali
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 Message 355 of 3737
11 February 2010 at 3:15am | IP Logged 
meramarina wrote:
Finnish: kieli moukka


I would say "kielinörtti." I've never seen "moukka" before and had to look it up. Kieli moukka translates to something like "language boor/peasant" xD
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Chung
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 Message 356 of 3737
11 February 2010 at 3:17am | IP Logged 
"Mä oon kielinörtti", funny. I should remember that.
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 Message 357 of 3737
11 February 2010 at 6:08am | IP Logged 
kyssäkaali wrote:
meramarina wrote:
Finnish: kieli moukka


I would say "kielinörtti." I've never seen "moukka" before and had to look it up. Kieli moukka translates to something like "language boor/peasant" xD
Language peasant...I like that. Thats funny.
You might be a language nerd when you complain to yourself about how school and homework are getting in the way of your learning...language learning, that is.
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unityandoutside
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 Message 358 of 3737
11 February 2010 at 6:59am | IP Logged 
Johntm wrote:
You might be a language nerd when you complain to yourself about how school and homework are getting in the way of your learning...language learning, that is.


You might be a language nerd if the homework that you make this complaint about is for a course in your target language. "But I already know how to use the instrumental, can't we do something more stimulating?!"
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 Message 359 of 3737
11 February 2010 at 9:35am | IP Logged 
meramarina wrote:

Russian: Язык NERD



Something like "повернутый на языках", it is not always easy to find a good equivalent for the word 'nerd' in Russian
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 Message 360 of 3737
11 February 2010 at 11:16pm | IP Logged 
When you stare endlessly at a painting on a friend's wall trying to figure out what script it's written in... only to
discover it was supposed to be a map.


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