KimJongIllest Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 So anyone care to share their multilingual win stories? Maybe speaking an extra language helped you land a job or get the Italian chicks number. Share them here!Personally, my mastery of the English language has helped through my fair share of bullshitting my way through a number of college essays. It really helps when you can spin one sentence multiple times so that it looks like a paragraph. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffyducky Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 I can totally extend a sentence to a mega ultra long paragraph just by beating around the bush too. It's awesome! (Not so awesome when you have a max word limit.) Knowing a few languges helps me eavesdrop on people and understand what they're saying, so when random people talk about me thinking I can't understand I can tell them off in their own language and feel like an evil genius. Muahahaha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thekernel Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 I had to give directions in Spanish once. Two older women were trying to get downtown via train. I stumbled through simple directions, I remember telling them "dobla y a la derecha" (up and to the right). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimJongIllest Posted February 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 I can totally extend a sentence to a mega ultra long paragraph just by beating around the bush too. It's awesome! (Not so awesome when you have a max word limit.) Knowing a few languges helps me eavesdrop on people and understand what they're saying, so when random people talk about me thinking I can't understand I can tell them off in their own language and feel like an evil genius. Muahahaha.Huh, thats odd. I just realized that none of my teachers ever imposed a word limit. Word minimums, on the other hand, yeesh. It's like they want us to spew a few paragraphs worth of bull instead of writing concise, straight-to-the-point essays with meaninful content. Ahh, the wonders of my school system.I have some experience similar to yours but in my native tongue. Where I'm from we get a lot of Korean tourists and it just so happens I bear a striking resemblance to my Asian brethren. Thanks to that, and my painfully silent personality, I often overhear hushed whispers of stuff obviously about me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffyducky Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 Huh, thats odd. I just realized that none of my teachers ever imposed a word limit. Word minimums, on the other hand, yeesh. It's like they want us to spew a few paragraphs worth of bull instead of writing concise, straight-to-the-point essays with meaninful content. Ahh, the wonders of my school system.I have some experience similar to yours but in my native tongue. Where I'm from we get a lot of Korean tourists and it just so happens I bear a striking resemblance to my Asian brethren. Thanks to that, and my painfully silent personality, I often overhear hushed whispers of stuff obviously about me.Ahhh when you get those narrative type essays where you can write a fantastic story set in a fantasy world, a minimum word limit is fine. Heck, it's fine to heave a reasonable word limit even for proper research papers, you want to have a minimum amount of content and not "because that's why the end". But I spend forever tearing out my hair and trying to compress something that easily crosses the 5k mark into 3500 words because they want super concise versions and count headers and tables and charts into the word count. It's hell man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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