knowing spanish, or the lack thereof

Nov 03, 2008 12:03

Sometimes taking three years of Latin really helps me ( Read more... )

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eoedad November 7 2008, 02:13:51 UTC
Ha ha ha. Okay, indirect pronouns are just something that you'll get used to after a while, but the imperfect tense... bwahaha. Evilness incarnate. Basically, I believe that it's an action that occurred in the past that has no defined beginning or end. (See, I like the imperfect tense because it has all of about three irregulars and therefore makes my life easier. I dislike the imperfect because WHY THE HELL DO WE NEED TWO PAST TENSES???) I also hate it because my friend, who was born in Chile and still speaks mainly Spanish at home, says that she didn't know the imperfect tense even existed before she started taking "American" Spanish in school. In other words, in at least one country it will just make you sound like you have no idea how to conjugate verbs. >.<

I'm not telling you my word count because it makes me cry. Suffice it to say that I am not not not meeting the challenge. Also, FUCK PROP 8.

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nebulia November 7 2008, 02:17:42 UTC
Haha, now that I'm learning them, here in Costa Rica I'm definitely hearing imperfects floating around. But then, MBF is from Chile, so maybe I'll just never go to another Latin American country again.

Haha, in Latin there are three pasts: imperfect (I was walking to school), perfect (I walked to school) and pluperfect (I had walked to school). But they're so definite. In Spanish it's like, use the imperfect for habitual stuff in the past, and description in the past, and indefinite stuff in the past, and I'm like...fuck that.

I learned por and para today too, so God help me.

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eoedad November 7 2008, 03:28:59 UTC
Por and para.

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It was nice knowing you.

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nebulia November 7 2008, 03:30:10 UTC
Well, now gee, that sure is reassuring. Thanks so much. XD

Also, I forgot to mention last comment: I fuck prop 8 as well. It is well-fucked. And not in a good way either. DDD<<<

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eoedad November 7 2008, 20:57:58 UTC
XDD You're welcome. It was no trouble. I'd be delighted to tell you how impossible foreign languages are any time you need a reminder. (It's pathetic when I have a better Japanese grade than I do a Spanish one. For the love of God, Japanese needs an entire new writing system!)

I was happy when Obama won-- I mean, I was more thinking Oh god don't let McCain win PLEASE, but I was happy. He seems like a decent, intelligent sort of guy, and if our current leadership hasn't managed to completely destroy the US then I doubt that he will. And then I went online and saw that Prop 8 had passed. And I think that I am going to spend the next week, and possibly the next month, vibrating with a very twitchy sort of anger because of it.

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nebulia November 7 2008, 21:02:05 UTC
Haha, great.

I used to like McCain. Not so much because I liked his ideas, but because he was a moderate and because he voted democratic when he believed it was the right thing to do, wasn't afriad to cross party lines. He was well-known for being bipartisan, for working with Democrats and republicans alike. And then the sad thing is he capitulated to the conservative religious right (the people who make me ashamed to call myself a Christian) and went uber- conservative and then Palin came in, who I don't HATE but I certainly don't want in the white house, either, and I really liked Biden...so that was how it turned out. But I thought McCain was tough enough to stand up to that conservative right; it made me so sad he didn't.

And prop 8...just. Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck.

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