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[byelka58]

A few observations before I hit my chronological stride: Dresden is really cold. I mean, at the moment it's only really cold for August, in that I'm wishing I'd packed some sweaters, and sleeping happily under a substantial down duvet, and throwing on the occasional jacket. But dear Lord, what can this imply about winter here? The way I see it,

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[kalliwoda]

I know I'll regret asking this, but what in the world is a dative plural?

[vislius]

Muwahaha ... be glad you don't have to think about things like declensions and cases.

[byelka58]

Oh no, vislius, allow me.

You see, lj user="kalliwoda", in English we have the damn sense not to distinguish further between direct and indirect objects than context clues and word order make possible. It's pretty clear, in the sentence "He gave the girls the book", that "book" is the direct object (what he gave) and "the girls" are the indirect object (to whom he gave it). We only make a distinction for pronouns, (some of)which have two forms: I/me, he/him, we/us, etc. "He gave it to me", but "I gave it to him".

In German, every single word has four cases (both singular and plural), one of which is the dative; you use it for indirect objects and with certain prepositions and verbs. So 4 cases x 2 (singular and plural) x 3 (masculine, feminine, neuter) means I have to learn 24 different endings. Latin has 6 cases x 2 x five possible patterns, or 60 possible endings. Russian has 6 x 2 x 3, or 36 endings. And that's just nouns; adjectives have different endings that also change. And every language has irregular words

[kalliwoda]

Quite the contrary - I'm laughing at, I mean WITH you. Never thought I would think that English was one of the simpler languages to learn.

[artnymph29]

1. I am jealous of your VW tour.
2. Of course you wanted to see the monkey dance, who wouldn't?

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[anonymous]

Райчел!!!!!!!!!
ЧТО СЛУЧИЛОСЬ!!!!!!!
http://www.history-compass.com/AuthContrib2.asp?ref=930
БОЖЕ МОЙ!

Спасибо - лев

[gabbiana]

Your breasts! They are a pair! Perhaps they will reproduce after the flood and populate the earth with breasteses

[byelka58]

His life goal seems to be finding a job as a photo editor (Bildredaktor), and his is a "watch me as I struggle to achieve" type of blog. I'd also be lying if I said I was trying to understand it, but I did scan the first several entries.

German capitalizes all nouns and substantive adjectives, no nationalities, and pronouns only in the polite forms (you plural, sometimes ["Ihr"], and always you formal ["Sie"]). And of course the first word of every sentence... but not, interestingly (to me), the first word of the first sentence after the greeting in a letter, because evidently the salutation itself counts as the first element.

Now ask me about word order.

[byelka58]

Dude, and I forgot to mention how right you are about the boobs: I have two of them! Of course! Why didn't I see it before?

From what I understand, though (25-year-old nurse), they don't replicate themselves directly. And I am momentarily (hahahahahahaha) lacking the means in question. But I'll get back to you.