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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5334 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 2545 of 3737 15 August 2012 at 4:44pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I can just imagine you sporting the python on one hand and holding an Assimil book in the other. In fact this would make a great motif for a Scout badge in dedication to language studies! Hope you're ok now by the way. :) Edited by Teango on 15 August 2012 at 4:46pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6375 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 2546 of 3737 15 August 2012 at 6:40pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4481 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 2547 of 3737 15 August 2012 at 7:23pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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@Teango: The Order of the Golden Python! Let's all do it. And I'm great now, it's very kind of you to ask.
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| cmmah Diglot Groupie Ireland Joined 4309 days ago 52 posts - 110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Irish | Message 2548 of 3737 15 August 2012 at 11:40pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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You're out walking your dog when you see a discarded cigarette box lying on the pavement. You're about to walk
past it, and then see the warning label; "FUMAR MATA". Now you have a small dilemma on your hands. Do you take the box and look like a weirdo, or walk past and miss out on all of that Spanish tobacco-related vocabulary? I hesitated before picking the latter. You're walking down the street with a group of friends, and a family are walking in the opposite direction. As they pass, you realise that the family are speaking French. You're tempted to turn and follow, but decide against it. Actually, now that I think about it, a real language nerd would have lifted the cigarette box and followed the family. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4606 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 2549 of 3737 16 August 2012 at 12:32am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I've been struggling to work something in about The Full Monty, but it won't come... :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
 Mae Trilingual Octoglot Pro Member Germany Joined 4769 days ago 299 posts - 499 votes Speaks: German*, SpanishC2*, Swiss-German*, FrenchC2, EnglishC2, ItalianB2, Dutch, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Swedish Personal Language Map | Message 2550 of 3737 16 August 2012 at 12:54am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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My parents went to a Greek restaurant, and they brought me a paper napkin they had taken
from there. On that napkin there was Greek vocabulary printed on, and they handed it over to me with the words: "Because we know you're a language nerd!" So cute! Well, that is not the weird part of the whole story. The funniest thing is that I couldn't sleep that night, because I spent hours browsing the WWW looking for Greek vocabulary - that being tired to death (!) and even if I was not (yet) interested in learning Greek at all!!! Edited by Mae on 16 August 2012 at 12:56am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5369 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 2551 of 3737 16 August 2012 at 1:49am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I agree but...it would be the post of the century if, after it happened you felt inspired to go to Burma and learn the language (assuming it was a Burmese python). But seriously, all I can say is WOW!! That is dedication! I hope you have recovered. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5310 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 2552 of 3737 17 August 2012 at 5:04pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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You know you're a family of language nerds when…
…your toddler runs past, inexplicably yelling, "Mouillé ! Mouillé ! I know French!" while giggling madly. …while walking with your wife, you look up the night sky, and observe km p.t (" [The] sky [is] black"). This inevitably leads to a 15-minute discussion about Egyptian grammar and the black and red earth of Egypt, from which come the words km.t (Egypt) and dšr.t (desert, foreign lands). 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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