I’m a twenty-something university grad living in the Bay Area with hopes of returning to the world of academia for Japanese, linguistics, or East Asian Studies.
My obsessive-compulsions include stopping the microwave only when the time remaining is divisible by five and reading the fine print on commercials.
My first sip of tea was out of my baby bottle. I make one of the best cuppas you’ll ever taste.
Get schooled. Two, to, and too are NOT the same thing.
It came to spread butter quiet bread
- [a surgeon from another specialty was checking her emails]
- Her: Dammit [friend's name], I don't speak Italian! This is going to take me three hours to read... I wonder if she's spamming me.
- Medical Student: You can always copy and paste it into Google Translate.
- [Cue me choking and almost having my tea shoot out of my nose]
- Me: [laughing] Sure, it'll give her the gist but she may end up more frustrated with the English that she's given [as a result].
Language Developer
Wayne was playing Just Cause 2 last night when Jazzie and I returned from our avoid-the-woo-cuddle-party outing. We started watching the game play and I thought that it would be awesome to become a travel consultant for gaming companies. The idea snowballed into language development when the dialect for [the fictional island of] Panau was spoken. I thought it has elements of Tagalog but I couldn’t tell if the speech pattern was SVO or SOV. My desire to work with language and game publishing skyrocketed.
I tried googling some advice but all I found was a gamer Linguistics PhD who was ripping the [made-up] language for one of the Star Wars games. I guess I’ll have to just get the advanced degree and figure it out later… :-\
FTW
I thought it was “fuck the world” as it sprung up around the same time as FML, so I was getting real pissed off that people were using it all the time - that’s rather abrasive. Why should the world fuck off because your pasta wasn’t al dente? Imagine my surprise when I found out the real meaning… Interesting. I don’t think many other people who used it were aware of what they were saying like my dad and his gen with LOL.
Canada’s on there, too.
Though not as detailed as the U.S.
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Counting to 10 on one hand (i heart swissmiss)
I thought it was going to be exactly like ASL counting but I was quite surprised. :-D
(via girlwithalessonplan)
This is currently consuming my life as JLPT is next Saturday. :-\
“It’s kind of a magic realist moment. They decide that 2 of 29 letters will disappear,” said Ilan Stavans, a Mexican who is a professor of Latin American and Latino culture at Amherst College. “All the dictionaries will have to be remade, which is good for selling the Royal Academy’s dictionary, which they keep producing as though it’s the Bible.”
