You know you're a language nerd when…

[Josquin]

... when you're looking for your Portuguese course and come across your old courses for Russian, Mandarin, Dutch, Arabic, and Irish, which immediately makes you want to study all those languages again.

[aquarius]

When you suddenly come up with the idea of creating a new Slavic language that combines the most difficult and irregular features of the Polish and the Czech language.

[zatris]

When you have fun (lots of it) installing keyboards of languages with non-Latin scripts on your phone and toying with them on a Sunday night.

And you know language-nerdiness is contagious when your girlfriend, on the receiving end of the chat you're flooding with rubbish in dozens of different scripts, have fun as well.

(Ok, I admit: part of the fun was drawing little guys, tables and houses with the Korean alphabet.)

Warning: browsing the languages tab on SwiftKey config can be very damaging to your productivity.

[languist]

... when you listen to linguistics lectures in the bath.
... when your family and friends are constantly laughing at you for the "weird noises" coming out of your phone.
... when doing IPA drills is your idea of a fun night in.

[Mooby]

When you're taking part in a swim for charity, and constantly lose count of how many lengths you've swum because your mind is preoccupied with conjugating the determinate and indeterminate imperfective verb for 'to swim' (płynąć + pływać).

[Ogrim]

When you have a dream in which you find yourself in a remote location outside London waiting for rdearman who has asked you over to practise French. (I do wonder though why he wanted to meet in an abandoned factory building - I woke up before he got round to explaining. )

[rdearman]

When you have a dream in which you find yourself in a remote location outside London waiting for rdearman who has asked you over to practise French. (I do wonder though why he wanted to meet in an abandoned factory building - I woke up before he got round to explaining. )

That is where I hide all the kidnapped French people and force them to listen to my French. bwwwwaaaagghhhhhaaaa

(Not really, I'm joking. I've never kidnapped anyone.)

[Cavesa]

When you have a dream in which you find yourself in a remote location outside London waiting for rdearman who has asked you over to practise French. (I do wonder though why he wanted to meet in an abandoned factory building - I woke up before he got round to explaining. )

That is where I hide all the kidnapped French people and force them to listen to my French. bwwwwaaaagghhhhhaaaa

(Not really, I'm joking. I've never kidnapped anyone.)

So, that's how you keep them from switching to English! How comes I didn't think of that!

[Chung]

...you burn up your lunch hour scouring newspapers and online dictionaries to add translations on Unilang of the latest Trumpism.

(if you seriously want to do a good deed for the language-learning community today, add a translation to that thread!)

[zenmonkey]

This is the SMS convo your daughter starts with you:

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