I didn't introduce myself yet...

[trofaste]

...So I'm going to fix that. A few of you have already met me, mostly on the games board (I can be very distractable!) but I haven't done a proper introduction yet. I'm Trofaste, the only technologically minded staff member at CommunityTranslation. Our forum is a meeting place for users of Duolingo (a language learning website) who loved Immersion, a recently removed feature which allowed users to collaboratively translate documents, and we use it to coordinate translation projects using Google Docs. We're all a bunch of language geeks. That includes me; I'm a native English speaker learning three others, French, Polish, and Romanian, and rather a nut about English etymology and the reasons behind various things, such as why "colonel" is spelled and pronounced how it is. I'm also musically minded and quite possibly turning into a photography geek due to the I Spy Photo Game. In addition, I can be very skilled at making a mountain out of a molehill and getting into stupid arguments, and if you try to cure people of making really bad puns you might as well give me up as a hopeless case now!

That's me. Thanks in advance for putting up with me!

[Mixed]

Oooo! Now we can give you an OFFICIAL welcome to ProBoards Support! Welcome, trofaste!

It has been fun playing "I Spy" with you thus far and I can't wait to see what your perspective of the world looks like through your budding photography. As you've already figured, just jump in whenever you have a Spy Photo to add! And no worries if it looks like two members are going back and forth rapidly (like I was with Luv last night); I've been there and I actually opted to swap out photos after I've been 'ninja-ed'. It's fun!

I wouldn't say I'm a language geek (I enjoy language and listening to languages even if I don't understand what they are saying), but I would say we still have some things in common. Native English speaker? Check. Multilingual? Sorta if you count that I can speak German and I TRIED teaching myself Japanese a LONG while ago. Musically minded? Definitely! Love music. Do you play an instrument or sing too?

As for the photography geek... :whispers in ear: Join us. One of us. One of us. One of us. LOL. Sorry. Couldn't help myself since that's where I first met you.

Anyway, if I may, we'll put up with you if you can put up with us! Welcome again to ProBoards Support!

[trofaste]

Thank you Mixed! Yes, unofficial welcomes are nice but, well, unofficial!

I've been enjoying the "I Spy" game too, especially looking at your pictures. I have a feeling it'll be a bit before I've developed enough skill to be able to compete for beauty. But once I have, watch out! I'm in an area with lots of beautiful things to photograph, and it's getting to the right time of year for capturing the beauty of springtime.

Not multilingual yet, just working on it. I'm B2ish in French, fairly beginner in Polish, and very beginner in Romanian. I've also briefly dabbled in a bunch of other languages, learned Cyrillic, both Russian and Ukrainian, contemplated learning the Hebrew alphabet and decided that right to left is too much for my brain, attempted (and failed ) Welsh phonetics... I'm a classical pianist and I also sing some, but I probably shouldn't!

I think I already have... I must have been close to becoming one without realising it for it to happen so quickly!

So far you've been put-up-with-able. If you keep on how you have been you'll be stuck with me!

[Caajscot (John)]

Lovely introduction trofaste, I introduced myself here on April 2015 and I love posting in ProBoards and the I Spy Photo Game is my favourite and I will let you know that I don't use a camera for any photos I take and post but my trusty mobile phone, I used an old mobile about a year ago until our son gave me his two-year-old Sony XPERIA Z2 which takes better photos. 

I am a bit of a photo geek and love looking at old black & white photos from years ago, they do haunt me, anyway it's no point in me saying "Welcome aboard and keep posting" as you have been here a while now and mixed in well with us ProBoard gang.

We all get on well in here and we all have our own opinions about everything that is posted in a thread of interest, if I post something in a thread that is long and I have my say I will always add at the end "my opinion only and others may differ", I find this does stop a lot of mild arguments about my point of view.   

[trofaste]

You do that with a phone? Wow. I'm impressed. I actually don't know if mine even has a camera... It's rather ancient for a phone.

I love looking at old photos too, especially those of my area. I can see how it's changed and how it used to be that way, and history, local and otherwise, has always fascinated me. Yes, I have lots of hobbies.

That's a good idea, since I'm generally very opinionated but usually only a few people share my opinion! I shall endeavour to keep the peace. Whether I'll succeed or not is an entirely different matter...

[♥ ℒʊ√ ♥]

Mar 2, 2017 6:19:48 GMT -8 trofaste said:

Not multilingual yet, just working on it. I'm B2ish in French, fairly beginner in Polish, and very beginner in Romanian. I've also briefly dabbled in a bunch of other languages, learned Cyrillic, both Russian and Ukrainian, contemplated learning the Hebrew alphabet and decided that right to left is too much for my brain, attempted (and failed ) Welsh phonetics... I'm a classical pianist and I also sing some, but I probably shouldn't!

You had me at Polish!

And here's my official welcome to you and nice to have you here.

[Zenlethic]

Hello and welcome to PB Support!

Hopefully you've found another online "home", so to say. You're not even the only one in this thread who posted that is big on photography.

[trofaste]

Mówicie po polsku, ♥ ℒʊ√ ♥? Dzi?kuj? za powitania (sorry if that's the wrong case, I get prepositions mixed up all the time)! To jest mi?e by? tutaj!

Thank you, Zenlethic! It's their fault I'm into photography now. I started looking at their pictures and then going through my picture folder and I was caught...

[♥ ℒʊ√ ♥]

Dzi?kujemy i cieszy?, trofaste .