You know you're a language nerd when…

[Teango]

Jeff's latest post here got me thinking...has anyone ever studied a language under the sea?

[jeff_lindqvist]

Just out of curiosity: How much light do you have at night times? I mean it's still a bit more in the south from my point of view.

It's still summer. The sun doesn't really set until ~10 PM (9.47 PM tonight). It isn't pitch dark. I take walks in populated areas which means that (most of) the route has street lighting.

[Cavesa]

Jeff's latest post here got me thinking...has anyone ever studied a language under the sea?

I guess Albus Dumbledore had, as he was fluent in Mermish

[AndyMeg]

When you are learning korean after previously having studied some japanese and you initially read the title of this book as "Nihongo ga nippani" because the stylized japanese い looked like a korean 니 and your brain just decided to fuse both languages into one reading :

　

[Josquin]

... when you start an internet search for 日本語がいっぱい based on the previous post, which leads you to Amazon.co.jp and you shortly think about ordering the book before you remember you already have a bunch of Japanese textbooks you don't have any time for anyway... (Should have ordered it anyway, though!)

[smallwhite]

^ When people say women who buy cosmetics are buying hope, they really should see the language book buyers.

[Teango]

When you satisfy both your inner language nerd and retro computer geek with these inspired coasters...

[AlOlaf]

You notice that a splash screen in a workplace urinal exhibits an unusual edge abutment pattern, and you're seriously considering contacting the manufacturer's engineering department to get an explanation of the rationale behind the development of this particular design, because you think it'd be something good to write about in German.

[AndyMeg]

When you feel tempted to learn french just for the sake of exploring and using a wider range of Assimil books.

[IronMike]

When you feel tempted to learn french just for the sake of exploring and using a wider range of Assimil books.

When you immediately download a "French for Reading" book when you discover a magazine freely available online for one of your 'non-language' hobbies.