• Hegemone said on Oct 23, 2009....

  Yup, I've done this before.  I've got something along these lines I seem to do daily.  I swear, it seems that each day there is always ONE word that I hear or say that is 'the' word and I repeat it, and I marvel at how it sounds, and how WEIRD it sounds, and I wonder who thought it up, etc.  Today, that word turned out to be 'titanium'.  It's like when I hear it or say it, suddenly the world is in slow mo (or my brain just slows down while it stumbles over the word, who knows, lol) and I can't get past that word until I've mentally turned it over every which way, turned it inside out and worn out it's welcome.  Weird, I know, lol, but you asked.

• PAPERBACKWRITER said on Oct 24, 2009....

  
  I have done the same. :)  Although English is not my mother language, I can say I almost grew up hearing, speaking this language, as it is considered the second language in my home country.
  
  Your post triggered a lot of thoughts in me as well, wombie ♥, since I love everything that has to do with languages, communication...but since I am just dropping by and might go on forever if I start, I will save it for another post. :)
  
  I would like to share a memory of an episode from a Twilight Zone, which I watched avidly as a child growing up... it was of an average middle-class American male, who suddenly woke up and found himself not understanding anybody around him.  It started at work, then in the grocery store, and in the end in his own home with his own child.  As if everyone started speaking a foreign language, and everyone were flabbergasted as well how come the man they knew could not communicate with the.  The ending scene was of the man in the room of his daughter trying to read a very basic children´s book.. I don´t know why but this episode stuck with me... yup another post to expound on.
  
  Have a nice weekend!
  
  
  
  
  

• queenparanoia said on Oct 24, 2009....

  you should hear me talk wombie.... i speak in english but my intonation sounds like filipino... ;-)

• busybusybusy said on Oct 24, 2009....

  i do this all the time...not just with listening to english but reading it too!
  then i am thankful that i grew up with english and didn't have to learn it the hard way. there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to this language sometimes!
  love, anon
  

• superbozo said on Oct 24, 2009....

  I personnally love being in a non english speaking country, watching the english speakers trying to communicate with the locals. It seems we believe that if we speak english slowly enough, even non english speakers can understand it. :)

• wombat said on Oct 26, 2009....

  Hegemone:  I have those words, too! Hard to describe but I know what you mean.  Sometimes ordinary English words can sound funny, depending on your frame of mind.
   
  PAPERBACKWRITER:  That must have been really confusing, but also educational--hearing two languages spoken while growing up.
   
  Your story about the Twilight Zone episode is pretty much what I meant.  What would it be like not to understand your familiar language?  I bet it's not much different from not understanding any language that you don't know.  Even Alien language...ha.  
   
  superbozo:  I lived in Germany for almost three years, and I'm sure I was one of "those people."   I learned a little German and loved to go practice it "out on the economy" as we called it.  One of my funniest episodes was when I spoke "fluent" German to ask a museum fellow if this was the Picasso exhibition.  I was polite and said please and thank you.....
   
  The guy there said, "Yea, right down the hall....."
   
  busybusybusy:  Nice to meet you, even though I am lagging in my responses as always...  They say English is really hard to learn, and I can believe it.  There are too many rules and such.
   
  Hope you had a nice weekend, too! 
   
  Queen:  I'd love to hear you talk in any language.  You could yell at me for still smoking!
   
  How did my comments get mixed in order?  Sorry---I didn't do that!

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