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

Postby PfifltriggPi » Tue Feb 12, 2019 10:04 pm

... You're watching an excellent Soviet film adaptation of Crime & Punishment and get quite excited when you notice someone commented in Modern Greek.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby SGP » Tue Feb 12, 2019 10:42 pm

AndyMeg wrote:When you take a break from learning a language by starting to learn another language XD!
Yes and when you take a break from language learning in general because you want to continue it. Paradoxon? Non est. #GreekLatinMixEst
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Flickserve » Sun Feb 17, 2019 11:02 pm

.... You seriously considered reading all previous 980 posts...
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby SGP » Mon Feb 18, 2019 3:42 pm

Flickserve wrote:.... You seriously considered reading all previous 980 posts...

... you tell someone that because of being a language nerd, I'd advise against reading too many of them (at least within a tight timeframe). Because trying to read all of them at once can drain some of your own language nerd powers ;).
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby PfifltriggPi » Tue Feb 19, 2019 1:29 pm

Flickserve wrote:.... You seriously considered reading all previous 980 posts...


... You've actually done that.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Mooby » Sat Feb 23, 2019 2:19 pm

When you start checking reviews on which axe to buy for splitting your firewood and end up watching videos on tree-felling techniques in German.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Cavesa » Sat Feb 23, 2019 4:07 pm

When you feel like a failure despite knowing more languages and to a better level than 99% of your compatriots. Because by now, you should have been much better at them :-D Being a depressed language nerd is not easy :-D

When you have a hard time choosing what language related activites to get rid of, to improve your overall efficiency (included in language learning) and fight procrastination.

When you wish you could have convinced your family to bring you foreign language novels from their holiday (during which you were translating for them over phone. Their hotel, their restaurant reservations etc). They brought me food though, that's the second best option. Ah, and saying (completely frankly) that food is second best option is another sign of being a language nerd ;-)
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby PfifltriggPi » Sat Feb 23, 2019 8:23 pm

Cavesa wrote:When you feel like a failure despite knowing more languages and to a better level than 99% of your compatriots. Because by now, you should have been much better at them :-D Being a depressed language nerd is not easy :-D


I can totally relate to this. "What do you mean you're impressed by my having books in three languages in my backpack, I can only fight my way through one of them with difficulty?" "How is it possible that I've been studying Latin for 3 years now and I still can't read Virgil?"
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby PfifltriggPi » Sat Feb 23, 2019 8:24 pm

When you regularly and unironically say "Every single day I'm somehow inconvenienced by my ignorance of German/Russian."
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Iversen » Mon Feb 25, 2019 2:11 pm

When you travel to Brazil and bring along language guides to Basque and Lithuanian just to have something to read during the 7 hour flight from Lisboa to Recife and back.
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