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

Postby leosmith » Thu Mar 30, 2023 2:39 am

Le Baron wrote:
Cainntear wrote:
Le Baron wrote:
I don't learn languages to pick up girls; I pick up girls to learn languages.


Luca Lampariello. He really said this in a video I saw. Language nerd with a twist. 8-)

Yeah, but a twist of misogyny really doesn't help the flavour of the drink...

I'll advise him he'd better pick up men instead to avoid your admonishment.
No need - this is the bi-directional dude.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby zjfict » Thu Mar 30, 2023 1:12 pm

leosmith wrote:
Le Baron wrote:
Cainntear wrote:
Le Baron wrote:
I don't learn languages to pick up girls; I pick up girls to learn languages.


Luca Lampariello. He really said this in a video I saw. Language nerd with a twist. 8-)

Yeah, but a twist of misogyny really doesn't help the flavour of the drink...

I'll advise him he'd better pick up men instead to avoid your admonishment.
No need - this is the bi-directional dude.


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

Postby zjfict » Sat Apr 01, 2023 1:28 am

Regarding the OP....

when it is a Friday evening and you're on the computer answering a forum question about being a language nerd. :grin:
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Mista » Sat Apr 01, 2023 8:39 am

When your parents come home from a vacation in Vietnam bringing you a gift of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in Vietnamese, even tough they know very well that you're not studying Vietnamese and the last languages they observed you studying were Russian, Arabic and French.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Sae » Sat Apr 01, 2023 4:36 pm

Mista wrote:When your parents come home from a vacation in Vietnam bringing you a gift of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in Vietnamese, even tough they know very well that you're not studying Vietnamese and the last languages they observed you studying were Russian, Arabic and French.


Heh, I guess time to put that French to use for the handful of French loan words in Vietnamese...
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Tue Apr 04, 2023 10:01 pm

...when you realise that you have almost as many books as Alexander Arguelles for a certain language.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby kelvin921019 » Tue Apr 11, 2023 6:34 am

The only reason to learn French is to learn other languages using Assimil
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby zjfict » Tue Apr 11, 2023 1:18 pm

kelvin921019 wrote:The only reason to learn French is to learn other languages using Assimil


I have heard Argüelles suggest that very thing.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Iversen » Tue Apr 11, 2023 2:17 pm

When you use your horticultural activities as an excuse for writing in Latin
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Ogrim » Wed Apr 12, 2023 3:05 pm

...when your son starts dating a Greek girl and you think it is the time to learn Modern Greek just in case the relation gets serious and you're going to meet her parents one day.
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