Hablo espanol. Porque, yo no hablo muy buen. Yo comprendo mas que hablar.

I guess I understand that, woody.

hehe... Like I said in the end, I understand more than I can speak it really.

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And I am sure what I wrote is not proper at ALL, lol

I can read spanish, almost write it, but not speak it. me and spanish conversations without a script is just a disaster.

a mi, tambien, Woody. No me gusta hablar espanol, pero me gusta leerlo un poco.

yo no me gusta espanol! me gusta ingles!

Hehehe. It's more of a thing to know it down in Texas I'm sure since you guys are neighbors with Mexico.

Up here in Vermont or Maine and New Hampshire, they have signs in French sometimes, or with km instead of miles.

I dunno why I learned spanish. I mean, it's a good thing to know, but there are so many other......more romantic sounding languages. I actually wish I took german classes in high school. Ah well

I kinda want to know japanese. it would make my life easier.
and I should definitely learn ASL.

pero ingles es aburrido Kat.

That's totally why I took spanish Woody actually cuz it's SO common to have people who are just like always talking in Spanish and barely now English. I wish I had taken German though. I much prefer Germanic languages to Romance ones. I hate Latin and how much it screwed over our Grammar rules.

I like the romance langs too, but it would have made sense to take german. Old English makes it easy to pick up now though, so that's nice. I love that I at least have the 5 Anglo Saxon cases down

espanol es aburrido, wingsy!

I hear there are even more spanish speakers around santa fe.

I like the romance languages but I hate that the French took over england all those years ago and brought a ton of Romance Language ideas, spellings, words, grammar rules into a Germanic language and just kinda screwed it over.

I like Old and Middle English. A part of me really wants to learn Old English.

and that wouldn't surprise me kat.

NM? I'd love to go there. Just because I love that song from Rent.

Let's open up a restaurant in Santa Fe! Sunny Santa Fe would be...NICE!

lol

OMG RENT!

then come visit me in santa fe some time?

Old English is VERY fun. And I know, I like that the Norman language influence English.... I mean, Old English is very very cool, but I think it's fascinating to see how our language evolved through conquest and such. I mean, Shakespeare wouldn't be Shakespeare without first having Middle English give way to Modern English.

You and Tolkien though. Hehe. He always grumbled about the French influences polluting the English language. But....he was an Anglo Saxon scholar so... lol

I'm reading a doujinshi in spanish right now. so spanish does have it's uses.

I know, my professor (another Anglo-Saxon scholar) read a bit of Beowulf to us in Old English and it was just amazing. Plus she gave us a copy of the first page in Old English and told us to find words we knew. And we read Canterbury Tales in the original middle english. It was just SO much fun. Definitely one of my favorite classes.

Haha. I think I'd be more likely to become an Anglo-Saxon scholar than anything else. I mean my favorite things in English are Post-Modern and Modern Brit (and some American), Shakespeare, and Brit lit from the Canterbury Tales and back. So yeah....*shrugs*

WINGS IS DA MAN! lol Well...... the lady version of the man. I took two Old English courses, the first was learning the ropes of the language and translating the shorter poems, riddles, etc....and the second was translating and reading Beowulf in OE.... and I translate the whole poem in the course of a semester, and wrote many a papers, lol. It was really cool, cause we didn't always translate in order, but by the end, we had all done our own personal translations as well as read the Seamus Henney translation and another more accurate version in English after we translated it all.... And we memorized portions for recitations in OE, which is SOOOO FUN! We even had mead at the end of our class, cause our professor is awesome. He called himself the Chuse-hroden doritas gifa, and we were his leorning knigtas.

There you go Kat ;)

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chuse-hroden doritas gifa means 'the cheese laden, doritos giver' instead of a beaga gifa, or 'ring giver' which is what a lot of lords were referred as since they gave their knights rings in various metals when they did stuff for him (he liked doritos)

yawn, me tired.

my parents came back from their little vacation with 6 bottles of mead....

Haha well not yet, maybe when I have my Ph.D. (in whatever I decide to focus on). I wish my university offered courses like that. Again maybe when I'm off studying my Ph.D. My university is more overall overview of all literature for everything so yeah. Not much specification to be had. Though I am taking a course on Shakespeare's Comedies and Romances in the fall and then one on his Tragedies and Histories in the Spring.

Haha and I knew knigtas was like knights. I actually love tracing the origins of words now that I know some of the basics of OE. I look at spellings and go oh that's germanic or that's romance. or that's something else entirely.

and I love how son and god are both exactly the same as their OE spellings even now. It makes me smile :D.... I am such a nerd.

I've never had mead...

isn't mead made with honey...?

and wings, i was looking through norse gods the other day... some of their names were words today. is that possibly their origin?

Perhaps. I don't really know much about norse anything....

*pokes head in and waves hello*

I studied two years of American Sign Language in high school and I really loved it!

mmmm mead. :drool: yes, it's honey wine. Nectar of the GODS! lol

Odin or Woden, the day Wednesday comes from that Wodensday.... Thor is Thorsday, Thursday. Freyasday is Friday....

I love that the highest positions are still OE style....... King and Queen are OE, nothing Norman in their influence unlike duke and dame.... and Lord and Lady are OE as well....