Pshhhht, I am here too and have had the same feeling (why yes I read the first post and then... well...

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I jump for joy when people reply to my threads, jump even higher when I am quoted, and PM make me hit the roof in a very positive sense of being overjoyed that someone is taking the time to talk to me haha.
(As far as languages go, I have French, English bilingual-except-when-not-woken-up-OR-when-I-would-need-it-the-most, some Spanish, smallish bits of Italian, vaaaaaaaaaaague notions of Japanese, I think I can say Hello in Korean, and I remember how to say "I am a student at X school" in Arabic

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Oh, and, huh... as far as thread killing goes, I have no idea what I do that does, indeed, kill threads, but for a long while my theory was just that I post from a difference timezone than lots of posters

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