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Posted: March 22 2011 at 12:00
So a girl has gone missing in my town and it's reached national news. She went missing Saturday morning and was reported missing Sunday. That isn't long. However, she's still missing.
They traced her last 'phone message/call to a forest a good 30 minutes away (I've camped there). So although I don't like to fear the worst, I fear the worst.
Joined: August 18 2008
Location: Anna Calvi
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Posted: March 22 2011 at 12:00
Grrr, I lost my post because when I pushed "post" the thread was already closed.
Pat, thanks for the compliment; I always thought that I had an affinity for languages, and the only things that kept me from becoming a true polyglot were my outstanding laziness and procrastination. I sometimes use my talent to make people laugh by simulating perfect accents in languages I don't know. But not even my English is that good; in my original career choice I was required academic English to achieve excellency, and I never got there. Even now I don't think I could write a decent undergrad level paper in English (but art history & theory is indeed a more pretentious branches of the humanities).
Joined: July 04 2005
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Posted: March 22 2011 at 12:02
Lizzy has the best English mannerisms of any European I know. Very weird. If I didn't know she was Romanian, I'd have thought she was English, as she types English with a somewhat localised dialect.
Joined: June 01 2010
Location: Brazil
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Posted: March 22 2011 at 12:06
A Person wrote:
Break your jaw?
Yeah, two wisdom teeth are stuck under my bone, and the doctor needs to break the jaw in order to extract them.
Padraic wrote:
When my wife and I toured Italy, our tour guide was fluent in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, and was very competent in Japanese and an Arabic dialect, and was seeking to learn more. I've always been very impressed with people that can do this
My grandmother was very fluent at Portuguese, German, Spanish, Italian, English and a bit of Polish. Too bad she passed away too early; I would have learned a lot with her if she was still alive.
I can speak Portuguese, English, Spanish and a bit of French BTW. Will start German and Italian classes in a month or so.
Joined: February 16 2006
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Posted: March 22 2011 at 12:06
harmonium.ro wrote:
Grrr, I lost my post because when I pushed "post" the thread was already closed.
Pat, thanks for the compliment; I always thought that I had an affinity for languages, and the only things that kept me from becoming a true polyglot were my outstanding laziness and procrastination. I sometimes use my talent to make people laugh by simulating perfect accents in languages I don't know. But not even my English is that good; in my original career choice I was required academic English to achieve excellency, and I never got there. Even now I don't think I could write a decent undergrad level paper in English (but art history & theory is indeed a more pretentious branches of the humanities).
I took the standard 4 years of a foreign language (French) in high school; then since my uni didn't require any foreign language study of engineering students, that was pretty much it. I could maybe muddle my way through some French text now, but I was always dreadful at listening and comprehending.
The few times I've visited Europe I've tried to learn a bit of the local language and have tried to use it. This invariably resulted in locals giving me a wry smile and a prompt switch of the conversation to English.
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Posted: March 22 2011 at 12:07
James wrote:
Lizzy has the best English mannerisms of any European I know. Very weird. If I didn't know she was Romanian, I'd have thought she was English, as she types English with a somewhat localised dialect.
Wanna know why?
Here's a picture of Lizzy as an English gal who came to visit the Balkans a long time ago and decided to never leave:
It's a portrait made by a local, now on display at the National Museum in Bucharest.
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But not even my English is that good; in my original career choice I was required academic English to achieve excellency, and I never got there. Even now I don't think I could write a decent undergrad level paper in English (but art history & theory is indeed a more pretentious branches of the humanities). 
