... when you're only interested in the vocabulary.
The Nerd: I'm resigning, boss.
The Boss: What????
The Nerd: I don't know what it's called when a freelancer resigns...
The Boss: You're not freelance but profit-sharing.
The Nerd: (now entusiastically contemplating the nuance between profit-based freelancing and profit-sharing)
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- Language Log: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 18#p155218
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
Vielen Dank, Adoro il tuo caffè.
When you start speaking in multiple languages to your kids and wife, and they do not have the slightest interest in understanding what you are saying.
When you start speaking in multiple languages to your kids and wife, and they do not have the slightest interest in understanding what you are saying.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
mentecuerpo wrote:Vielen Dank, Adoro il tuo caffè.
When you start speaking in multiple languages to your kids and wife, and they do not have the slightest interest in understanding what you are saying.
To be fair, I speak to my wife and kids in their native language and they don't have the slightest interest in understanding what I am saying.
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• Intermediate: German,
Spanish, Hebrew
• Beginner: Italian,
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
When this conversation transpires:
- Wife: Are you mad at me?
- Me: No, I'm just not awake yet and I'm concentrating really hard on transferring these watermelon chunks on to [daughter]'s plate.
- Wife: You're not awake enough for that but you're awake enough to learn Arabic at 7 in the morning?
- Me: Yes.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
When "LAT" is short for your company name (employer), but after more than a year, you're still reading it as "Latin".
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Dialang or it didn't happen.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
When you fail to notice a tv series on Netflix is suddenly switched to another language. And then you regret having wasted the 10 minutes that were supposed to be in the intended language, not in the too comfortable one.
When you find it hillarious, that a redditor accidentally called "shadowing" "ghosting"
When you find it hillarious, that a redditor accidentally called "shadowing" "ghosting"
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- Location: Brazil
- Languages: Portuguese (N), english (B2-ish), german (B1), russian (intermediate), spanish (reading and listening).
- Language Log: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 15&t=17202
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
When you keep buying dictionaries, grammars and courses for learning languages (other than the one/ones you are presently busied yourself in), and the amount of books collecting dust in your shelves keep growing...
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- Location: Canada
- Languages: I speak some Turkish (really rusty), I understand a fair amount of Low Saxon, and am currently learning Ossetic (Iron dialect). I learn my languages by exposure, not by studying class material (besides dictionaries and basic guides). It has been a long time since I've studied any language.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
When you can't resist researching the roots of whatever language you're studying.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
When a very unpleasant dream includes you failing your hieroglyph exam. Or rather the hieroglyph part of an another language exam (I forgot which one, but it was definitely a living one). I felt so ashamed and sad in that dream
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- Deinonysus
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- Location: MA, USA
- Languages:
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• Intermediate: German,
Spanish, Hebrew
• Beginner: Italian,
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
When Duolingo starts calling you out.
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