#polyglot confessions

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Polyglot Confession Nr. 697:

I dream of wearing shirts with inappropriate sayings in Old English and Old Norse in public, the more obscure the better, mainly because it’d be fun but also because of the chance that maybe three or four linguists, lit students, historians or germanic languages people might pass by, read it, roll their eyes and then snicker to themselves.  

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Polyglot Confession Nr. 698:

The closest I’ve ever come to a real-life, movie-esque reveal scene was when I was studying abroad and it somehow took 6 months for a friend of mine to realize that I was neither a native speaker nor from their country. 

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Polyglot Confession Nr. 699:

I often print out language stuff from Tumblr and add it to my notes. 

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Polyglot Confession Nr. 700:

I have spent too many years trying to figure out how a German translation of MST3K would work.

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Polyglot Confession Nr. 771:

I’m a native English speaker and love practicing different English accents, but I have never been able to get the Canadian ‘o’ in words like “sorry”.

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Polyglot Confession Nr. 772:

People think I speak more languages than I do and don’t know the ones I actually speak and I get tired of correcting them. 

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Polyglot Confession Nr. 772:

Whenever someone says “the Zeitgeist of the time” to sound smart, my glare is the definition of shade.

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Polyglot Confession Nr. 773:

This is the most hideous language learning resource I have ever seen: