12 Awkward moments that all language lovers will recognise

  1. When your friends don’t understand your love of languages

What do you mean you don’t care about the Oxford comma?

  1. When someone makes a grammatical mistake

  1. And you have to pretend you haven’t noticed

*Suppress the geek*

  1. When someone asks you to translate something for them/ say something in another language

Come on people, I’m not a walking dictionary (*secretly loving it*)

  1. When someone tries to correct your grammar

Really? That’s cute.

  1. When you notice a mistake on a menu/ notice-board/ poster

  1. When you realise that not everyone finds your random ‘language trivia’ as interesting as you do

Isn’t it amazing that the word ‘guy’ originally referred to Guy Fawkes…? Right? Guys..?

  1. When someone tells you you’re speaking in another language and you hadn’t realised

  1. When you get unreasonably excited about puns

But jokes about German sausages are the wurst

  1. When you start itching to learn another language

Because I CAN’T STOP

  1. When you know you’re a grammar nazi but you’re not doing it on purpose

You’re killing the vibe Stannis.

  1. But in the end, you know that when it comes to languages, you’re the boss

Keep it up language-lovers, the world needs you.

Do you recognise these situations? Did we miss anything out? Let us know!

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