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Post by peekay on Sept 12, 2007 16:18:56 GMT
I sometimes wear earplugs in bed as my wife snores!  I 'liberate' some of those yellow spongey ones from work. I only do it as a last resort though as they aren't very comfortable. |
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Post by medibot on Sept 12, 2007 23:02:58 GMT
lol, it's even worse when you haven't got a clue what they are saying. Overhearing Spanish conversations and indeed Spanish sex (though it never lasted very long or was particularly loud so Javier can't have been that good at it!) for most of last year was infuriating beyond belief because i didn't know why they were talking so late or what about despite it being clearly audible.
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Post by ambersalamander on Sept 13, 2007 12:35:22 GMT
I hate that too- when you want peace and quiet and people are talking in languages you can't understand! For some reason I find it more irritating than people talking in languages I can undertand  |
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Post by ojiveojive on Sept 14, 2007 9:19:15 GMT
Perche trovi irritante, eh? E perche non capisce e il suo cervello non ha senso dei rumori della lingua straniera, percio trovi seccante. E facile! Non ascolti, leggi un libro  |
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Post by ambersalamander on Sept 14, 2007 10:27:49 GMT
That's probably a good idea, Ojive darling, but sometimes even a good book doesn't help because I can't concentrate on it. You're forgetting I did Latin at school |
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Post by bh on Sept 14, 2007 14:58:12 GMT
Blimey, I have difficulty with English, never mind dead languages like Latin. Mind you they tried to ram some into my head at my Junior school! |
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Post by ojiveojive on Sept 14, 2007 15:09:01 GMT
I hadn't forgotten, I knew you'd understand it |
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Post by ambersalamander on Sept 14, 2007 15:35:01 GMT
Blimey, I have difficulty with English, never mind dead languages like Latin. Mind you they tried to ram some into my head at my Junior school! I found Latin a very simple language to learn once you've got the basic principles. As for English, I've found since I started learning Latin that I find unfamiliar English words or grammatical structures a lot easier to understand. Basically, Latin helps you learn and improve on your English, which is probably one reason why schools all used to teach it. |
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Post by bh on Sept 14, 2007 16:02:00 GMT
True. Alas all that I learned at my very good junior school, ie. Latin and French was lost when I went to my senior school where a lots of the kid could barely read English. It took them about three years to catch up with me, sort of, and by that time I'd basically become very lazy with my learning as I'd had to do very little for three years.
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Post by votp on Sept 14, 2007 21:30:36 GMT
Latin is a great 'language' to learn if you want to have an idea of how English works. A solid grounding in Latin grammar still helps me today. Vipera est in herba longa.
Apropos earlier in the thread I find that generally when in bed listening to nocturnal conversations, they always appear to be speaking fluent bollocks. Something I have been known to do in my time.
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Post by ambersalamander on Sept 15, 2007 20:34:30 GMT
I can do that  |
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Post by malxscfc on Sept 16, 2007 23:27:01 GMT
I sometimes wear earplugs in bed as my wife snores! I 'liberate' some of those yellow spongey ones from work. I only do it as a last resort though as they aren't very comfortable. Pardon?? |
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Post by medibot on Sept 17, 2007 1:37:38 GMT
Sal, i have a solution, from the same quite brilliant webcomic...  |
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Post by ambersalamander on Sept 17, 2007 8:36:28 GMT
Fantastic. I can be loud, but I need to get me a boyfriend first! ;D
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Post by peekay on Sept 17, 2007 10:43:42 GMT
I sometimes wear earplugs in bed as my wife snores! I 'liberate' some of those yellow spongey ones from work. I only do it as a last resort though as they aren't very comfortable. Pardon?? Sorry, what was that? Can you speak up? |
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