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Ubik Senior Member United States ubykh.wordpress.com/ Joined 5075 days ago 147 posts - 176 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin, Arabic (Egyptian), German, Spanish
| Message 57 of 58 01 December 2010 at 1:16am | IP Logged |
Iversen wrote:
I have to put up with their babble about relationships and people they know and cars and the weather, so they have to put up with my tendency to quantify. |
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Absolutely! I too am a collector (music, books, monopoly and Steelers memorabilia, movies, etc) so I find myself quantifying and then think...does this person even care? Am I coming off like a braggart? But your retort puts it in perspective.
I havent replied to this thread yet so Ill just say that I go the super clinical honest route and, at the expense of boring them, tell them my levels in speaking, reading, writing, and listening (which is always the worst). With German in particular I state that I can circumlocute my way through a mean one-sided conversation!
Edited by Ubik on 01 December 2010 at 1:17am
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LauraM Pro Member United States Joined 5111 days ago 77 posts - 97 votes Studies: German Personal Language Map
| Message 58 of 58 01 December 2010 at 3:35am | IP Logged |
mick33 wrote:
LauraM wrote:
I don't know if I'd be a braggart or not as I have yet to have anything to brag
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I agree. |
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I'm glad we both agree that I don't have anything to brag about! LOL
Seriously though, in life I downplay everything, so I doubt I could/would ever UNLESS there were special
circumstances and perhaps I just really wanted to make a point. I much prefer to look better than expected...
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