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09.09.09
I suppose it might have been more apropos to post the NINTH card in the Hyakunin Isshu anthology, wouldn't it have? :: laugh ::
Happy German No, No, No Day ^_- -
The Accordionist
So, last Friday slavetoreznor and her beau joined nytemarewulf and I to dinner at a new German restaurant called Kaiserhof. The food was pretty good, though it was too damned expensive. But hey, the eye candy was nice. Mmm, big German bears. One of the servers was in liederhosen and I asked Carl, "... so what do you think if I got that outfit?" He responded, "... does ( Read more... ) -
[Multilingual Monday] Old hanzi, Missing you
Okay, a quick Multilingual Monday as I'm majorly sleep deprived:
- Okay, this Chinese character etymology page is VERY cool -- put in all sorts of hanzi (by either typing or pasting it into the window) and -- usually -- you will get pictures of the character's variants, in seal script to earlier bone script and earlier still oracle script. It's ( Read more... )
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[Multilingual Monday] The Subjunctive
One of the hardest things about learning the Spanish language all those years ago, is the use of the subjunctive. Because English's subjunctive is sporadic (to put it mildly), the initial concept that a whole VERB conjugation existed for something that didn't seem so separate a concept in English was, intially, a confusing one. The slow demise of ( Read more... ) -
[Multilingual Monday] WTF Idioms
One of the big stumbling blocks for many speakers of a new language is learning idioms. I remember years ago the Chicago Sun-Times having a series of articles written by a German living in America, and one of this articles had stated his difficulty with various English turns of phrases. He had mentioned trying to get a hold of someone, and the ( Read more... ) -
Oy ...
nytemarewulf was just bombarding me with German David Hasselhoff tunes. ;_;