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Old 05-11-2010, 05:52 PM

I just woke up from a nap.
My internet was down last night.
I have math work to do. Tomorrow is the last day of the class, so that is nice.

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Old 05-11-2010, 05:53 PM

I know what you mean Lostin. I'm keeping a few eggs for myself and I'm giving the rest away. I sent them all to my mule so I don't have to see them.

Ick, I hope things get better Rainy

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Old 05-11-2010, 06:53 PM

Agh. I dont knwo whats wrong with me. I felt quite good this morning, but right now... And I have one of the hardest classes to prepare to - German. ;-;
I wish my school had already ended. *sigh* I still will have stuff to stress about then, but at least thats done then.

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Old 05-11-2010, 07:03 PM

I would so fail German.

wow, that is cheap

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Old 05-11-2010, 07:04 PM

i tried taking a German class once when i was in 5th grade (it was a real simple class) and once in 10th grade, but got really frustrated both times. I prefer French or Italian..

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Old 05-11-2010, 07:05 PM

Yeah. But... I neither have enough, nor I am sure I would use it much. Ugh. Choices, choices, choices...

And, well, I have a good teacher who doesnt eat me alive for all my mistakes. the one I had previously made me fret every German class, though. They were enarly the bane of my school life. ._.

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Old 05-11-2010, 07:07 PM

you know what would be really cool to take? gaelic!!

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Old 05-11-2010, 07:10 PM

Uhhuh. Maybe. From old languages, I would like to learn Latin, though.

*must fight and win the battle with German, since its vitally important for her future and so she disappears to start the battle* *might peak in eventually now and then, though*

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Old 05-11-2010, 07:12 PM

I took a little bit of Latin a few years ago.... but I forget most of it.

Rident stolidi verba Latina.
Fools laugh at the Latin language.

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Old 05-11-2010, 07:20 PM

My brother self-taught Latin. C: It is very beautiful language. For a while, I thought he would teach em, too, but... Eh. ^^;
And since I have always been interested in how one language influences another, it interests on personal-level to see more similarities between it and other languages.

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Old 05-11-2010, 07:22 PM

Yup! So much of English is directly influenced by Latin, but then you also gotta think of how much of our language is indirectly influenced by Latin, like from French, etc.

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Old 05-11-2010, 07:44 PM

Well, English isnt really my language, but I have seen how English and German influences mine and they both are influeced by them self in a way (Wind, for example is the same thing/word in German C: ) and then by Latin... Such a intriguing "mess". C:

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Old 05-11-2010, 07:46 PM

saddie: oh, English isnt your first language? What is, then?

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Old 05-11-2010, 07:50 PM

Latvian (I am from Latvia). C: I am learning both English and German in school. One for longer time, the other for shorter. ^^;

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Old 05-11-2010, 07:53 PM

Oh! Thats so cool! I have a question for you. :)

In Latvian, does this rhyme?

"If only, if only, the woodpecker cries
The bark on the tree was a little bit softer."


Because in the book Holes, they said that in Latvian it rhymed.

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Old 05-11-2010, 08:00 PM

Well, it depends on how you translate it, I think. o3o;

Quote:
"Ja vien, ja vien, raud dzenis,
koka stumbrs būtu (jel?) mazliet mīkstāks."
That would be my instant translation. So, in this shape it doesnt rhyme, but translating rhyme stuff is the hardest. Doing it like this - from a translation already - it is nearly impossible to get an original. Translation already usually is just a vague thing.

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Old 05-11-2010, 08:15 PM

Yeah, thats true. You'd have to scour your brain for absolutely every single possible way to say it, and it's probably just a rough translation into English, anyway. lol. Thanks anyway, though.

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Old 05-11-2010, 08:23 PM

And poems are one of those things you often translate very roughly, just keeping the main idea, not even using similar words, since its very hard to carry the meaning poetically from one language to another. I know from translating my own poems. @[email protected];

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Old 05-11-2010, 09:36 PM

Well, I must agree, Saddie.

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Old 05-11-2010, 09:42 PM

Hello Sellie. C:

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Annd. I am gonna go and finish my Latvian now. Then some more of german reading stuffs and I am donne. 8D

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Old 05-11-2010, 09:50 PM

See you, dear. <3

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Old 05-11-2010, 09:53 PM

I got two things done today. I feel accomplished. *nods*

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Old 05-11-2010, 09:55 PM

Nice.

Anything that has anything to do with you-know-what?

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Old 05-11-2010, 09:56 PM

Sadly, no. But I am working on that. I got my article finished and turned in. Also I got some more art done.

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Old 05-11-2010, 10:00 PM

Ooh, much more important. <3 How are you, dear?

 



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