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| theomegamale Newbie United States Joined 4776 days ago 8 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, Danish, Thai, Greek, Hungarian | Message 1 of 8 08 January 2012 at 4:49am | IP Logged | |||||
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How would each language be like as a person? What might they look like, act like, sound like, etc?
Italian would be the charismatic charmer of the bunch. He/she would have this dramatic flare to them that makes them alluring to everyone around. Like the Italian language, they would make everything about themselves clear and distinct. Hungarian would be the enigma. No one would really understand him/her. He/she has quirky looks that are confusing and weird at first glance, so he/she gets unfairly isolated and even picked on. However, Hungarian would be a pretty cool guy/gal once you got to know them. What else? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5227 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 2 of 8 08 January 2012 at 5:16am | IP Logged | |||||
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I can't help but feel like it'd be difficult to distinguish a language from the culture that spawned it when imagining hypothetical personifications (not least of which, with respect to race...).
Anyway, the Khoisan sisters would be the beatniks of the bunch. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| theomegamale Newbie United States Joined 4776 days ago 8 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, Danish, Thai, Greek, Hungarian | Message 3 of 8 08 January 2012 at 6:01am | IP Logged | |||||
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Yeah, true. I cut off the culture and I went strictly with elements of the language.
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| DNB Bilingual Triglot Groupie Finland Joined 4698 days ago 47 posts - 80 votes Speaks: Finnish*, Estonian*, English | Message 4 of 8 08 January 2012 at 9:01am | IP Logged | |||||
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Swedish, Danish and Norwegian would be the extroverted handsome blonde brothers who are
generally fun to hang out with, while Finnish is the weird emo-kid in the family and nobody understands him. 5 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6595 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: EnglishC2*, Norwegian*, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 5 of 8 08 January 2012 at 11:29am | IP Logged | |||||
Scandinavians extroverted? You learn something new everyday. 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5227 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 6 of 8 08 January 2012 at 4:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
I beg to differ. I think they'd look more like the folks at this site: http://satwcomic.com 
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| espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 4863 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani | Message 7 of 8 08 January 2012 at 4:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
It's always the quiet ones, isn't it? I began noticing this tendency in Finns ever since I watched Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö (The Match Factory Girl). :)) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| LebensForm Senior Member Austria Joined 4862 days ago 212 posts - 264 votes Studies: German | Message 8 of 8 08 January 2012 at 5:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
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This reminds me of my friend and I assigning specifiic personalities to each of the cases in German, that I posted about in the "Are you a language nerd" thread. But I don't know if I could characterize a whole language like that. I see German being the leader of the group, maybe like Dutch's older brother or something, not sure let me think on this, feel free to elaborate. Edited by LebensForm on 08 January 2012 at 5:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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