Does it piss you off when people talk authoritatively about a language you speak/are taking, and are clearly UTTERLY clueless? Not just mistakes, I mean acting like an expert when they know 3 words- badly. What language? Any *really* painful instances?
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Michie
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I speak a little bit of a lot of languages, and just the other day someone said she could understand Gaelic, so I said, basically, "Hello, how are you?" (It's really more of a "Mother Mary be with you," but it's what they say). She insisted that it wasn't Gaelic, so I asked her to speak some. She said she couldn't SPEAK Gaelic, but she could understand it. Watakushi no namae Sharon desu.
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At university my hall had a hockey team I played on and the captain decided to put a comedy Latin motto on our shirts. Instead of asking me to help write the motto, since I was one of only 15 people in the entire University at the time who happened to be studying Latin as part of their degree, he did it on his own, by pulling words out of the Latin dictionary and placing them one after the other without any regard for cases, noun/adjective agreement, verb persons/tenses, conventional Latin word order... basically with no understanding whatsoever of how the language operated. The end result was horrible to behold to a Latin student, it had no more meaning than any other random string of words, yet he probably still believes to this day that it said what he wanted it to say.
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Well,I might have done that once or twice myself,thinking that I knew.But what pisses me off more is snits that don't have the guts to tell me that I'm wrong to my face without getting cockey or abusive.Then I can get pissed off too.*+++++*
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