I think you changed your username before I went on hiatus, but given that I don't know any other big TK fangirls, I quickly deduced that samanosukesgirl could belong to only one person. :DDD
Wut ^ wut ^!! Or, as a sign off, "LOL, Mom". My Mother thought it meant "lots of love".
April, I do believe it was when I changed my name. I must be his biggest Canadian fangirl, too. :D He's in my back pocket as I type this.
Don't mind me if I randomly ask questions like that or "I dunno if I told you/I can't remember if I said this but". Actually, I need to say that to all my LJ friends. I need to get my memory back up to par. I know I have repeated myself and I know I will repeat myself.
My mother is well aware that she is referred to as the lolmom in my LJ. That is why, when I transcribe dialogue, her part always begins with "lol" (even if it was never actually said or implied in real life).
You've mentioned your memory fail before, so I'm not really bothered by it. I can adjust for people :)
At a party tonight, my friends kept asking me to translate their sentences into Japanese, and our other friend to translate them into Vietnamese, and I thought of you and your Latin. I somehow doubt that the sentence, "Bushwalking is my favorite sport," or the sentence, "Help me! There's a bat on my head," would be as concise in Latin as they are in English, but they're definitely...interesting examples of things to translate.
I just thought of that as I saw that response about Latin and Cantonese. In my Korean class, I sit behind a girl who speaks some Cantonese (she mostly speaks Mandarin), and it's interesting to hear her compare Cantonese and Mandarin to Korean.
Apropos of nothing but before I forget, you can use olive oil instead of butter in the salmon burgers. It contains heart-healthy fat!
If anything, they might be more concise in Latin; the Romans were wont to omit superfluous words when it was pretty clear who was doing what. (There's a whole art to Latin epigraphy, which makes me really glad I'm not an epigrapher.) That's what case endings on verbs are for. :D
You are taking Korean now? Is my fresh-baked ukemuffin trying to show me up with her 1337? ^_- ♥
ORLY? I'm taking that tip, then! Olive and vegetable oils are the only oil allowed in my brother's diet.
I know so little about Latin. No matter how much I read and try to figure out, I don't actually use it or actively pursue it beyond reading, so it's impossible to remember cases and declensions and all those other things. ¬_¬6
I'm taking Korean to fill in for a semester without Japanese. The last Japanese class I need to take is only offered in spring and summer, so I wanted to take a language and figured Korean, being the closest living world language to Japanese, would be a safe bet. It's hard. I shudder to think of your adventures with Cantonese. That has to be even harder than Korean!
It's an Indo-European language (like English), so it's not too horribly hard to figure out, which I'll never convince you of. I think I'm a far better Latinist now that you demand to know what things mean than I was at university. ("I don't know why anybody would expect me to know Latin," the Little Pink Seahorse said. "Lee translates it all for me anyway." She then blew a bubble.)
Korean is a language isolate! Nobody knows from whence it came, or what its mission is! XD Cantonese takes some getting used to, because it's not an Indo-European language (obv.), and I have to make up mnemonic devices to remember the Cantonese reading for hanzi and so on.
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My memory is fuzzy. You do remember me changing my username, right? Like, it wasn't a shock? You knew who I was right away? HURRAY FOR LITHIUM!! :C
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I think you changed your username before I went on hiatus, but given that I don't know any other big TK fangirls, I quickly deduced that samanosukesgirl could belong to only one person. :DDD
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April, I do believe it was when I changed my name. I must be his biggest Canadian fangirl, too. :D He's in my back pocket as I type this.
Don't mind me if I randomly ask questions like that or "I dunno if I told you/I can't remember if I said this but". Actually, I need to say that to all my LJ friends. I need to get my memory back up to par. I know I have repeated myself and I know I will repeat myself.
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You've mentioned your memory fail before, so I'm not really bothered by it. I can adjust for people :)
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I just thought of that as I saw that response about Latin and Cantonese. In my Korean class, I sit behind a girl who speaks some Cantonese (she mostly speaks Mandarin), and it's interesting to hear her compare Cantonese and Mandarin to Korean.
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If anything, they might be more concise in Latin; the Romans were wont to omit superfluous words when it was pretty clear who was doing what. (There's a whole art to Latin epigraphy, which makes me really glad I'm not an epigrapher.) That's what case endings on verbs are for. :D
You are taking Korean now? Is my fresh-baked ukemuffin trying to show me up with her 1337? ^_- ♥
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I know so little about Latin. No matter how much I read and try to figure out, I don't actually use it or actively pursue it beyond reading, so it's impossible to remember cases and declensions and all those other things. ¬_¬6
I'm taking Korean to fill in for a semester without Japanese. The last Japanese class I need to take is only offered in spring and summer, so I wanted to take a language and figured Korean, being the closest living world language to Japanese, would be a safe bet. It's hard. I shudder to think of your adventures with Cantonese. That has to be even harder than Korean!
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It's an Indo-European language (like English), so it's not too horribly hard to figure out, which I'll never convince you of. I think I'm a far better Latinist now that you demand to know what things mean than I was at university. ("I don't know why anybody would expect me to know Latin," the Little Pink Seahorse said. "Lee translates it all for me anyway." She then blew a bubble.)
Korean is a language isolate! Nobody knows from whence it came, or what its mission is! XD Cantonese takes some getting used to, because it's not an Indo-European language (obv.), and I have to make up mnemonic devices to remember the Cantonese reading for hanzi and so on.
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