A bit late to the party, but in case there are people who HAVEN'T watched this awesome video yet, HERE IT IS:

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I found it on LanguageLog.

(It's a video with linguistics singing "We are the world, linguistic version", and it's hilariously awesome. WATCH IT!)

You what's awesome? And I mean really freaking OMG HOW IS THIS REAL awesome ( Read more... )

Yeah, so I managed to write the 5-minute speech for the final test for "Japanese Communication". After people convinced me that talking about "Taboos" might not be too clever a topic, I had a hard time coming up with another. Hell, coming up with "Taboos" was hard enough ( Read more... )

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I HAVE SO MUCH LOVE FOR THIS SONG. SO MUCH.

I love most of Rolf and his little friends' songs.

That is all for today because other than sleeping in and wrapping presents, I didn't get much done. *hides*

Finally a girl! After idk three boys, finally a girl ( Read more... )

... I found a posting dated 16th Feb. 2006 (therefore a bit old) regarding the translation of "Bachelorarbeit" into English. The whole thread is here.

This is what I found terribly amusing:

"I just find it amusing that evidently one has to write a thesis/dissertation/long essay/lengthy piece of written work for a BA in Germany.Something like this ( Read more... )

...okay, perhaps a bit.

I just bought a new notebook! =DDDDDDDDDDD

Hoping it'll arrive soon~

Someone just rang at the door. This has to be in German, sorry.

Mann: Guten Tag, ich bin von der Deutschen Telekom. Frau E?
Ich: Ja.
Mann: Ist der Anschlussinhaber zu Hause? Oder wann kommt er wieder?
Ich: Der Anschlussinhaber kommt gar nicht. Mein Vater wohnt hier nicht ( Read more... )

OHHHHHHH TODAY, I love today. Today is awesome. Oh, so so awesome. Wanna know why ( Read more... )

OMG YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

I woke up to the sunniest morning in AGES. BLUE SKY AND EVERYTHING.

I missed you so much, sun! Come play more often!! =DDDDDDDDDD