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

Postby PfifltriggPi » Sat Aug 31, 2019 8:08 pm

Bluepaint wrote:
Deinonysus wrote:When your plan to start saving money involves limiting yourself to buying only one language book a month.


I actually laughed at this :lol: love it


Tomorrow when I go into the city to go to liturgy, I go right past an antiquarian bookstore.
Must. Not. Enter. Remember you're a broke uni student. You have three books coming in the mail, one of which you'll be able to pick up Monday morning. You don't have room for any more books anyways.

Furthermore,
... When you bring more books than clothes to uni.
... When you forget your rainjacket, but not your bilingual Old Occitan / French book.
... When the only thing you're taking at uni are languages
... When you have a French accent in Ukrainian.
... When you tell someone in your third year Italian class (at an Anglophone uni) that you only started Italian in June which is why you have such a thick French accent.
... When you use 6 languages in one day.
... When you have books in only 9 languages with you at uni.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby mentecuerpo » Sun Sep 01, 2019 12:04 am

When you hear a foreing language spoken by strangers on the street and you can't resist to ask: "excuse me, what language are you speaking?"
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Cainntear » Sun Sep 01, 2019 7:36 pm

rdearman wrote:
Brun Ugle wrote:You know your cat is a language nerd when she uses her nose to change the language of the website you’re looking at from English to French. (I suspect Rdearman put her up to it.)

Nope, it was Karma.

Well, if you know the cat's name, clearly you've been in contact...
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Xenops » Sun Sep 01, 2019 11:03 pm

You know you’re a language nerd when you remember to leave work with your Japanese books, but not your purse—twice.

Thankfully I remembered it before I went too far (twice).
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Brun Ugle » Mon Sep 02, 2019 12:22 pm

Xenops wrote:You know you’re a language nerd when you remember to leave work with your Japanese books, but not your purse—twice.

Thankfully I remembered it before I went too far (twice).

Maybe you should keep your books in your purse.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Heiopei » Mon Sep 02, 2019 6:00 pm

mentecuerpo wrote:When you hear a foreing language spoken by strangers on the street and you can't resist to ask: "excuse me, what language are you speaking?"


I always wonder, but I have never asked. Especially Africans, their languages are so diverse and beautiful :D
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Xenops » Mon Sep 02, 2019 10:50 pm

Brun Ugle wrote:
Xenops wrote:You know you’re a language nerd when you remember to leave work with your Japanese books, but not your purse—twice.

Thankfully I remembered it before I went too far (twice).

Maybe you should keep your books in your purse.


My purse is too small, sadly. :(
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Deinonysus » Tue Sep 03, 2019 1:25 pm

Deinonysus wrote:When your plan to start saving money involves limiting yourself to buying only one language book a month.
When your plan fails after you only make it three days into the next month before buying two Navajo books.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Teango » Wed Sep 04, 2019 12:07 am

Deinonysus wrote:
Deinonysus wrote:When your plan to start saving money involves limiting yourself to buying only one language book a month.
When your plan fails after you only make it three days into the next month before buying two Navajo books.

No shame in that...essentials are essentials. 8-)
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Bilingual_monoglot » Wed Sep 04, 2019 12:14 pm

When you're accidentally writing your Chinese exam in Korean (a friend of mine)

When after you hear the above anecdote, your first thought is of posting it on this forum
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