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| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5006 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 57 of 73 18 November 2011 at 11:17am | IP Logged | |||||
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I love pun making and puns when I'm in the right mood (why don't people check reactions when they shoot the first one?) but making them doesn't necessarily require extremely advanced linguistic skills. All of my immigrant friends -or maybe all the immigrants I've made friends with- make quite some regularly and are at 'medium level' or worse.
That's why in my list I included that I'm impressed by your linguistic skills only when you can make/get linguistic stunts that others in the same situation as you can't (not just won't). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6330 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 58 of 73 18 November 2011 at 1:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
SNAP! But I have to agree with Bao et al. It's easy for a punster to make puns early on in learning languages. For example, a Kazakhstani friend(K) with better Japanese than me tried a pun with a Japanese man(J). It was in Japanese, but let me try to explain with romaji and English. J - "mama desu" (english - "I'm just so-so") K - "really? I took you for more of a papa" J - ? K tried to explain the pun to J, but failed. Then I explained it, using correct intonation, and it worked, but I could tell it wasn't very funny to him any way. Now to be fair, the Japanese are supposed to hate puns. You get called a crazy old grandpa if you tell one, or something like that, so I learned long ago not to. So J was a hard sell. But K is a young whipper snapper with excellent vocabulary and grammar, who still needs to work on her intonation and cultural knowledge. I succeeded only because I had a few tricks up my sleeve, not because I'm a master. Plus, I can and have made puns on the first day of learning a new language. They suck, but at least I laugh:) Edited by leosmith on 20 November 2011 at 8:57am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5114 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 59 of 73 18 November 2011 at 9:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
Even nice kitties have claws ... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6645 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 60 of 73 18 November 2011 at 9:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm impressed by people who learn languages to a high standard very quickly
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| amethyst32 Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5429 days ago 118 posts - 198 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, French | Message 61 of 73 19 November 2011 at 1:00am | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm impressed by beginners who speak their new language with confidence.
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| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5125 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 62 of 73 19 November 2011 at 1:29am | IP Logged | |||||
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I am impressed by a profound knowledge not only of a language but of its culture, society and history.
I am most impressed by such knowledge extending across multiple civilizations. And I am unimpressed by either petty modesty or untenable claims. 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| s_allard Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5210 days ago 2704 posts - 5425 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Polish | Message 63 of 73 19 November 2011 at 3:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
Just on a minor issue, and because I enjoy reading Solfrid Cristin, don't you think that since these three individuals were born in Norway they should be considered Norwegians of Pakistani and Tamil origin? I know it's a bit more cumbersome to say, but it is important to make the distinction between people who are natives of other countries, i.e. born in Pakistan, and natives of Norway. I doubt that someone born in Norway of Swedish parents would be referred to as Swedish. 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6377 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 64 of 73 20 November 2011 at 3:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm impressed with those that don't stop. Like, they don't switch to another language when they find it more fun - they study both, perhaps just maintaining the one they picked originally. I'm like that and I often expected others not to drop languages they've not reached fluency in - and it's always disappointing when they do.
As for specific languages, Finnish and Portuguese make me think highly of people. I know just one other person who's studying both. With Portuguese, it's obviously because most choose the more mainstream Spanish. Edited by Serpent on 20 November 2011 at 3:47pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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