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| ellasevia Octoglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 4741 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Croatian, French, Greek, Italian Studies: Russian, Swedish, Persian, Turkish, Japanese | Message 569 of 3737 27 April 2010 at 8:19am | IP Logged | ||
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Haha, I did something like that last year. In PE we had to take really tedious notes, so I decided to practice my Portuguese at the same time and wrote the notes about fitness in Portuguese! Little did I know that we would later have to turn those notes in...
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| Olympia Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4580 days ago 195 posts - 244 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Old English, French | Message 570 of 3737 29 April 2010 at 1:35am | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah when I was in high school we had to keep a journal in my theology class. I wasn't really interested in the idea
of keeping a "faith journal," so I decided to write my entries in Spanish to make it more interesting. My teacher was very perplexed when we had to turn them in at the end of the term... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4080 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 571 of 3737 29 April 2010 at 2:02am | IP Logged | ||
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That's happened before, but by mistake. I tend to think in German to pass the time, and it shows up in a lot of my
work which gets my teachers really angry, so I'm forced to think in English during classes :(. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 4166 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 572 of 3737 29 April 2010 at 9:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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At least you guys are writing notes in an alphabet the teacher can read! I used to perplex my teachers with notes written entirely in phonetic shorthand.
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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 4446 days ago 5455 posts - 6004 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 573 of 3737 29 April 2010 at 9:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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Guys, that's really cool, taking notes and writing journals in a different language than as required by the teacher! When I was a pupil, I wasn't yet a language nerd, so I would never have got the idea to do such things at that young age. My language nerdiness has developed much later...
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| Kubelek Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland chomikuj.pl/Kuba_wal Joined 5451 days ago 415 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishC2, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 574 of 3737 30 April 2010 at 12:13am | IP Logged | ||
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Levi could you tell us more about the shorthand you used? I read about it in The Loom of Language, and I found it quite interesting.
Writing a perfectly understandable language in a script that others can't read sounds like a marvellous idea to me. This is perhaps why in middle school I exchanged notes written in Tengwar with a couple of friends. .. and my handwriting was much neater when I did that than when I used latin alphabet. Edited by Kubelek on 30 April 2010 at 12:15am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 4166 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 575 of 3737 30 April 2010 at 12:34am | IP Logged | ||
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I mentioned the shorthand earlier in this thread. It's called Quikscript. If you are interested in learning it the original manual is published in its entirety online in this PDF.
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| Thaorius Diglot Groupie ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4142 days ago 40 posts - 58 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2 | Message 576 of 3737 30 April 2010 at 3:23am | IP Logged | ||
...when, after reading that, you can find 3 printed copies of the original manual in the room you are sitting, that aren't in the same place and weren't printed at the same time but you don't really understand or write quikscript... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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