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saltdawg ([personal profile] saltdawg) wrote2009-05-30 11:04 am
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Writer's Block: Multilingual

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Fluent: English, Pidgin
Conversational: Czech, French, Swahili, Patois, Cajun
Only know How to order a drink, Curse someone out and say please & thank you: Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Afrikaan, Dutch, Egyptian, Chinese, Russian, Polish, Spanish, Tygrinya, Redneck, And, hell I know how to swear in almost every language...I'm a Sailor after all.

[identity profile] saltdawg.livejournal.com 2009-05-31 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
All of my language skills are much like that Resurrection plant: namely they dry and shrivel when I am not in-country, but as soon as I am, I start spewing words I didn't even know I knew. A couple of months ago I had an entire dream in Czech, and I haven't actually spoken it in almost ten years! I'd thought it was all gone...but it's all still up there on stand-by, awaiting re-activation.

Also, is there anything I can do to stop you from crying?
Edited 2009-05-31 16:53 (UTC)

[identity profile] hellnation.livejournal.com 2009-05-31 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
you are so sweet