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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:18 pm

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But it's not even a common word.

It's the name of Hawaii's national fish. XD

Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:36 am

It's usually French for me, too.

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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 2:33 pm

On the greeting thing: to my family's everlasting annoyance and embarrassment, I tend to greet people with a cheerfully Latin 'Salve!'

...when you're relaxing to a favorite song and you think to yourself 'those sybilants really sound nice...and I love the way her liquids come out...'

Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 1:09 am

Sola Catella

...when you're relaxing to a favorite song and you think to yourself 'those sybilants really sound nice...and I love the way her liquids come out...'

...you actually get what this refers to. (I don't. redface )

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Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 4:27 am

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But it's not even a common word.

It's the name of Hawaii's national fish. XD

I saw this post first when I came into the htread and I was like "Isn't that the really long 'huma' thing?" surprised
Then I checked back a page.

Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 7:47 am

Sola Catella

On the greeting thing: to my family's everlasting annoyance and embarrassment, I tend to greet people with a cheerfully Latin 'Salve!'

Oh; I only greet my FAMILY in French. When it comes to other people, it's usually 'Zdrastvujte!' (Russian).

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Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 8:00 am

...when the acquisition of a brand new GIANT French-English dictionary leaves you excessively giddy. mad D

...when you almost cry when you find out that the language section at your local bookstore has SHRUNK. crying crying crying

...when you happily spent $130 dollars on books in French, and you would have happily spent the rest of your money had they had more French books in stock.

I'm guilty of all of these. cool

Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:43 am

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Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:55 pm

I stole a Spanish textbook on Wednesday! whee

Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 2:08 pm

caitlin_neko

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3nodding

But it's not even a common word.

It's the name of Hawaii's national fish. XD

I saw this post first when I came into the htread and I was like "Isn't that the really long 'huma' thing?" surprised
Then I checked back a page.

XP I know.

I thought about quoting Proudly just so that people know what I'm talking about, but I'm too lazy. ><

At least it's a long word that you can actually pronounce! surprised

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Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 5:02 pm

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Sola Catella

...when you're relaxing to a favorite song and you think to yourself 'those sybilants really sound nice...and I love the way her liquids come out...'

...you actually get what this refers to. (I don't. redface )

Linguistic terms. Sybilants are consonants wherein you make the sound by allowing air to pass over your lips. (Think 's' and 'z,' to use English examples.) Liquids are consonants that can be sounded continuously and with minimum friction in the mouth. The English liquids are 'l' and 'r.'

I'm way more interested in being a linguist than I am in being a translator. surprised

Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 5:04 pm

Sola Catella

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Sola Catella

...when you're relaxing to a favorite song and you think to yourself 'those sybilants really sound nice...and I love the way her liquids come out...'

...you actually get what this refers to. (I don't. redface )

Linguistic terms. Sybilants are consonants wherein you make the sound by allowing air to pass over your lips. (Think 's' and 'z,' to use English examples.) Liquids are consonants that can be sounded continuously and with minimum friction in the mouth. The English liquids are 'l' and 'r.'

I'm way more interested in being a linguist than I am in being a translator. surprised

We can be linguists together! heart

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Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 4:38 pm

...when you can say shibboleths of all the languages that you're learning like native speakers.

Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 6:42 pm

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I stole a Spanish textbook on Wednesday! whee

xp

I would steal the grade 12 French textbook just for the hell of it, but my French teacher scares me. ninja

...you think French doesn't have enough verb conjugations. domokun

For those of you who don't speak French: as far as I can tell, French has more irregular verbs than it does regular ones. Not only that, but French also has 22 tenses, litterally (not counting the passive voice thingy). Or maybe more, but I know 22 of them.

That is not nearly enough for me crying There should be more irregular verbs, and more tenses! ninja

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Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 7:48 pm

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I stole a Spanish textbook on Wednesday! whee

xp

I would steal the grade 12 French textbook just for the hell of it, but my French teacher scares me. ninja

...you think French doesn't have enough verb conjugations. domokun

For those of you who don't speak French: as far as I can tell, French has more irregular verbs than it does regular ones. Not only that, but French also has 22 tenses, litterally (not counting the passive voice thingy). Or maybe more, but I know 22 of them.

That is not nearly enough for me crying There should be more irregular verbs, and more tenses! ninja

Well here's what happened...I walk into my Global class, and under my desk was a Spanish textbook...like a message from God! 3nodding eek
So I decided to take it. It was nothing advanced, but I thought it'd be a good review and fun! My friend next to me was craking up. surprised

Yeah I know what you mean. Spanish has MAAAAANY verb tenses too. But anyway, I'm NOT a bad girl! I swear! I'm gonna return it soon! @_@

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