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Man, I wish I could get to the point where I instinctively write in French.
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Bilingual_monoglot wrote:When you are constantly switching to Chinese to the point where you use it almost as much as your heritage language
When you have specialised greetings for your friends based on their linguistic repertoires (Selamat Morgen, kumusta amigo saya)
When your music playlist contains songs in 10 languages, 3 of which you don't know, none which are entirely in English.
“Selamat morgen” haha. Funnily enough that works well in my Australian household. I’m trying it tomorrow morning. They will probably look at me like I’m a language nerd.
Mm, none of us is great first thing in the morning. I might go with “Selamat appétit” or “Bon makan” at dinner time.
At least I will be amused.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
1. When your hesitations during everyday speech start sounding like those in your target language.
2. When you notice this and start researching the linguistics involved.
2. When you notice this and start researching the linguistics involved.
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When you take a nap and your dream is subtitled in a language you don’t know, and immediately upon waking, you type the only subtitle you remember into Google Translate. (Unfortunately, it was only jibberish.)
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Brun Ugle wrote:When you take a nap and your dream is subtitled in a language you don’t know, and immediately upon waking, you type the only subtitle you remember into Google Translate. (Unfortunately, it was only jibberish.)
Don't leave us hanging! What was the subtitle?
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Brun Ugle wrote:When you take a nap and your dream is subtitled in a language you don’t know, and immediately upon waking, you type the only subtitle you remember into Google Translate. (Unfortunately, it was only jibberish.)
Thanks for this. Think I might start learning jibberish.
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IronMike wrote:Brun Ugle wrote:When you take a nap and your dream is subtitled in a language you don’t know, and immediately upon waking, you type the only subtitle you remember into Google Translate. (Unfortunately, it was only jibberish.)
Don't leave us hanging! What was the subtitle?
“Ku Lupfpren?”
Unfortunately, the last line before I woke up was very short, though I probably wouldn’t have been able to remember it had it been longer. I remember there were generally a lot of randomly capitalized words, so it might have been influenced by German. Lupfpren might be a name, so it might mean something like “Who/Where is Lupfpren?” I also don’t remember there being any sound. So the audio doesn’t give any clues. The scene was a meadow near a wood with a tiny, dilapidated shack on the edge of the meadow. I don’t remember the rest of the dream, but it seems to me it was just random images, since I was only napping and not really sleeping properly. I was also listening to a thunderstorm on my headphones, but the weather in the scene was just partly cloudy.
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Brun Ugle wrote:“Ku Lupfpren?”
Hmmm...I'm gonna be cogitatin' on this one all week.
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Mooby wrote:Brun Ugle wrote:When you take a nap and your dream is subtitled in a language you don’t know, and immediately upon waking, you type the only subtitle you remember into Google Translate. (Unfortunately, it was only jibberish.)
Thanks for this. Think I might start learning jibberish.
Jibberish is my native language actually.
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