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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby smallwhite » Sat Jul 10, 2021 2:03 pm

... when you're only interested in the vocabulary.

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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby mentecuerpo » Tue Jul 13, 2021 2:44 pm

Vielen Dank, Adoro il tuo caffè.

When you start speaking in multiple languages to your kids and wife, and they do not have the slightest interest in understanding what you are saying.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby rdearman » Tue Jul 13, 2021 5:46 pm

mentecuerpo wrote:Vielen Dank, Adoro il tuo caffè.

When you start speaking in multiple languages to your kids and wife, and they do not have the slightest interest in understanding what you are saying.

To be fair, I speak to my wife and kids in their native language and they don't have the slightest interest in understanding what I am saying.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Deinonysus » Thu Jul 15, 2021 11:29 am

When this conversation transpires:
  • Wife: Are you mad at me?
  • Me: No, I'm just not awake yet and I'm concentrating really hard on transferring these watermelon chunks on to [daughter]'s plate.
  • Wife: You're not awake enough for that but you're awake enough to learn Arabic at 7 in the morning?
  • Me: Yes.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby smallwhite » Tue Aug 10, 2021 5:01 pm

When "LAT" is short for your company name (employer), but after more than a year, you're still reading it as "Latin".
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Postby Cavesa » Tue Aug 31, 2021 8:30 pm

When you fail to notice a tv series on Netflix is suddenly switched to another language. And then you regret having wasted the 10 minutes that were supposed to be in the intended language, not in the too comfortable one.

When you find it hillarious, that a redditor accidentally called "shadowing" "ghosting" :-D
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Eafonte » Sat Sep 04, 2021 3:49 pm

When you keep buying dictionaries, grammars and courses for learning languages (other than the one/ones you are presently busied yourself in), and the amount of books collecting dust in your shelves keep growing...
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Blue Saka » Sat Sep 04, 2021 8:20 pm

When you can't resist researching the roots of whatever language you're studying.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Cavesa » Thu Sep 23, 2021 7:31 am

When a very unpleasant dream includes you failing your hieroglyph exam. Or rather the hieroglyph part of an another language exam (I forgot which one, but it was definitely a living one). I felt so ashamed and sad in that dream :-D
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Deinonysus » Sun Sep 26, 2021 6:49 pm

When Duolingo starts calling you out.

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