You know you've achieved nerdhood when...

[Elfmama]

Esperanto's a constructed language from 1887 that's touted as the replacement for English. More info at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto

(looks wariely around at the sudden silence) And NOW you all know why I'm banned from every trivia and pub quiz night in the entire country. It's called an 'idactic memory'. I just remember . . . . stuff. Totally useless in the real world.

And I saw something somewhere that more people speak/read Klingon than Esperanto...

[Slartibartfast]

Harry Harrison was a huge proponent of Esperento and features it heavily in his "Stainless Steel Rat" series (which is worth the read, even if it's a bit dated!).

[faithlessone]

Esperanto's a constructed language from 1887 that's touted as the replacement for English. More info at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto

(looks wariely around at the sudden silence) And NOW you all know why I'm banned from every trivia and pub quiz night in the entire country. It's called an 'idactic memory'. I just remember . . . . stuff. Totally useless in the real world.

Don't worry - I knew that too!!

It was also featured heavily in Red Dwarf. Rimmer claimed to learn it, and at later points be fluent, but all he could actually do was inform people that there was a frog in his bidet. And say "charmita" (charmed) a lot. Not so useful!!

(And my father and I are no longer allowed to enter the local pub quizzes. Having a 2-person team conclusively beat all the other 6-people teams - sometimes by rather immense margins - leads to that 2-person team being very unpopular!!! Sometimes we go miles away to enter pub quizzes, and we've never come lower than 2nd!!!)

[Shea]

I don't speak any non-real-world languages, but I have constructed my own language (I studied linguistics in college). Am constructing, I should say, it's a work in progress. The vocab always needs expanding and sometimes I must refine the grammar.

Also, for all you geography nerds, I present geoguessr.com/. I can't stop playing it.

[cwm]

In college, I translated Romantic poetry into Tolkien Elvish. For fun. I had a full binder of Elvish to help me, and I had to make some guesses at some words, though they were rather educated.

When arguing with my sister that her daughter can't be CM² because her initials are CMCM. CM² would be C²+2CM+M².

Nobody in my family will play Star Wars Trivial Pursuits with me either. Then again, I refuse to play with my boyfriend.

When I started my job we had to create fake files in the system to learn how to use it. They had to be obvious fakes, so they wouldn't trigger anyone else to think they were real and get the compliance department involved. I realized that I couldn't use any of my fandom names as fakes because nobody else would recognize them, so I reverted to Sherlock Holmes. Then people still didn't recognize that it was fake.

The biggest actual argument my boyfriend and I have had was whether to go to PAX or D*Con. It's a moot point this year because we can't afford either, but we've each made some pretty strong arguments for our own side. We'll see how next year plays out.

[Ms_Cellany]

When arguing with my sister that her daughter can't be CM² because her initials are CMCM. CM² would be C²+2CM+M².

nerd level up:  (C+M)² would be C²+2CM+M².

[Onyx_TKD]

When arguing with my sister that her daughter can't be CM² because her initials are CMCM. CM² would be C²+2CM+M².

nerd level up:  (C+M)² would be C²+2CM+M².

Yeah, your niece's problem is a lack of parentheses: CM²=CMM. She needs (CM)²=CMCM. C²M² would also work, but looks less elegant.

[Ms_Cellany]

My first name can be rendered C₃H₄

[cwm]

I give, math never was my strong point.

If it's all the same, sis isn't either, and agreed with me. Now I call the kid Sproglet and she calls her Booger or Bear. Or Booger Bear, if she's being especially cute.