Verb, it's what you do.
In learning to speak spanish I've noticed somethings about language that years of Lingusitic Anthro classes never taught me.
My first of two major revalations is that prepostions are totally random. Where something is or isn't and if that location is in realtion to something else or not, is totally arbitrary. On, on top of, en, of, through, de. Total spectrum of places that get names and somehow the people who speak the languae know what's where, when in reality it's all very confusing and intricate. Thank god for sesame street.
The second lesson in language has been really fun to notice and one that I can ask other people about and leanr all sorts of stuff from. This lesson is verbs. Yup, verbs. I'm amazed at the things we have a single word for that take a whole sentence to express in another lanugague and vice versa. (ok, the fact that in spanish there's a single word for -to slit the throat of- is kind of disturbing) It's really pretty neat to leanr the differences.
I think in a past life I was a member of the southern chilean Yagah who had a verb for "to come unexpectedly across a hard substance when eating somthing soft." It would be great to have one word for this is a fairly wordy description for something I have always just thought of as "I'm not hungry anymore."
My first of two major revalations is that prepostions are totally random. Where something is or isn't and if that location is in realtion to something else or not, is totally arbitrary. On, on top of, en, of, through, de. Total spectrum of places that get names and somehow the people who speak the languae know what's where, when in reality it's all very confusing and intricate. Thank god for sesame street.
The second lesson in language has been really fun to notice and one that I can ask other people about and leanr all sorts of stuff from. This lesson is verbs. Yup, verbs. I'm amazed at the things we have a single word for that take a whole sentence to express in another lanugague and vice versa. (ok, the fact that in spanish there's a single word for -to slit the throat of- is kind of disturbing) It's really pretty neat to leanr the differences.
I think in a past life I was a member of the southern chilean Yagah who had a verb for "to come unexpectedly across a hard substance when eating somthing soft." It would be great to have one word for this is a fairly wordy description for something I have always just thought of as "I'm not hungry anymore."