When you find yourself spouting random language facts at your friends and family, brushing aside their disinterested looks.
When you've only been speaking to someone new for 5 minutes and they go "I'm guessing you really like languages then."
You know you're a language nerd when…
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blaurebell wrote:Cainntear wrote:jeff_lindqvist wrote:When a stranger wants to give you a book, and you realise it's the Book of Mormon in Albanian. (Yes, I gladly accepted the freebie.)
Wow. You win all the geek points. I never accept books from Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses, regardless of the language they're in.
Mods: close this thread, we have a winner.
While living in Germany once Italian Jehovah's witnesses rang my doorbell because of my husband's Italian name on it. I accepted their brochures precisely because it was the weirdest targeted missionary attempt I've ever experienced. I mean seriously, do these people just go from door to door looking for Italian names? And I'm sure I still have the brochures somewhere although I moved country in the meantime
Were they Italians? Perhaps they had a surplus of Italian-language material and were trying to get rid of it.
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William Camden wrote:Were they Italians? Perhaps they had a surplus of Italian-language material and were trying to get rid of it.
They were Italians and only had Italian language material
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blaurebell wrote:William Camden wrote:Were they Italians? Perhaps they had a surplus of Italian-language material and were trying to get rid of it.
They were Italians and only had Italian language material
Where are these people when I need them? Over in bloody Germany!
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rdearman wrote: Where are these people when I need them? Over in bloody Germany!
Haha, they do have a lot of them over there in general
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When conversations with your new girlfriend involve things open and closed vowels, svarbhakti and the like.
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...when I start learning sophisticated words just for fun because my vocabulary is sufficient for quotidian conversations and my level of coperhension is at at least 98%.
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When you read the thread Best Book Only Read in L2 and consider adding The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings because the English editions have been translated from Westron.
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You listen to a german song and say "nice use of the genitive" (You only notice this things now that you study the language to teach it ]
Also when you reward your husband by doing certain things when he gets the gender right.
He's more of a language nerd than i am but i'm always happy to assist.
Also when you reward your husband by doing certain things when he gets the gender right.
He's more of a language nerd than i am but i'm always happy to assist.
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Cainntear wrote:When conversations with your new girlfriend involve things open and closed vowels, svarbhakti and the like.
Does your new girlfriend have a like-minded sister?
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