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Apr. 27th, 2012 08:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeThe following adjectives are used with tá (is) to comment on the weather:
Tá sé go maith - It is good
Tá sé go breá - It is fine
Tá sé go hálainn - It is beautiful
Tá sé bog - it is mild
Tá sé fuar - It is cold
Tá sé fliuch - It is wet
Tá sé ceathach - It is showery
Tá sé tirim - It is dry
Tá sé gaofar - It is windy
Tá sé scamallach - It is cloudy
Tá sé bog ar maidin. It is mild this morning.
Tá sé fliuch inniu. It is wet today.
Tá sé ceathach tráthnóna. It is showery this evening.
Tá sé gaofar anocht. It is windy tonight.
Bhí sé gaofar inné. It was windy last night.
Bhí sé fliuch inné. It was wet last night.
Beidh sé fliuch anocht. It will be wet tonight.
Beidh sé ceathach anocht. It will be showery tonight.
Well that was a little more exciting than I wanted. Last night the skies opened up and we didn't get just rain that time, we got d20 sized hail. And a power outage while I was trying to do my check-in post. So, that was fun! Then I got a couple episodes of Caprica where I wanted to punch a whole lot of people in the face for being stupid.
But, you know, then I got Sasha Roiz being tall and suave and dark and dangerous, and I got a tweet from Jackie Earle Haley, and I got the last major chunk of a story I've been beating my head against for the past week finished, so that was more literal fun instead of sarcastic fun.
Caprica is pissing me off now. Mostly in the sense that it's making me want to learn Ancient Greek. I already have enough goddamn languages floating around in here! I do not need to add Ancient Fucking Greek! Hell, I already have been kind of brushing up on the Latin I used to know just out of watching Grimm, I really, really do not need to learn Ancient Greek. I mean, thinking about it... okay, how many languages am I up to? English, Spanish, French. German, Japanese, Russian. Irish. Arabic. Latin, if I decide to start refreshing. I've already lost count, that's ... seven speaking, eight reading. We're not counting Arabic yet because that is going to go very, very slowly, but still. And now there's Latin and Ancient Greek on the list and my head is going to explode.
(On the entertaining side, I'm getting much much better at being able to toggle through languages that I'm more fluent in, more cleanly and quickly. Memrise is really helping with that.)
Work work work. I have all the incoming today, so there's going to be no writing of meaty stuff at work, but at least I can knock some of the miscellaneous stuff off while I'm at it. Plus a couple of things I meant to do yesterday and couldn't because the power went out. And there's always these short (for me) New Year's Resolution fics in Caprica and Sucker Punch I could finish that have been languishing in process for about a week and a month, respectively. Should be a fun, if busy, day. And most of the Maryland packing that can be done has been done, yay! And I finished weaving! And I almost finished another afghan square! These are going way faster than I thought. Soon I will be INVINCIBLE! Or at least have a blanket. Which is like invincibility.
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Date: 2012-04-27 01:32 pm (UTC)YAY most of the packing out of the way!
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Date: 2012-04-27 01:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-04-27 01:56 pm (UTC)You know which language I wish had a course? Romani.
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Date: 2012-04-27 05:12 pm (UTC)Up to crazy wicked fluency: Spanish, French, Russian, Irish, German, Japanese, Mandarin, Arabic of some kind. All of those are useful except the Irish, which just because I'm self indulgent.
Up to conversational fluency (some of which might happen by osmosis): Portuguese, Italian, Hindi, Welsh, Cherokee, Czech, Bulgarian, Italian, possibly others to be added later.
Reading fluency only: Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, Latin, Sumerian, Hebrew
SPEAKING OF CHALLENGES. This is not including all the other random languages I might see that I would go "Ooh, I want to learn that."
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Date: 2012-04-27 05:58 pm (UTC)... actually, the list is pretty similar. Except starting with Modern Greek and then eventually going for Ancient.
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Date: 2012-04-27 06:05 pm (UTC)I am not touching Mandarin without a teacher, but because it's so widely spoken Id' like to learn at least ONE Chinese dialect. 'cause all of those languages are geared towards, learn this, be able to survive among people anywhere in the world.
Then the rest of it is just fun. ;) Yeah, Ancient Greek is totally for fun and geeking. Modern... maybe, but it's not as widely spoken.
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Date: 2012-04-27 06:20 pm (UTC)Granted, where I live, Modern Greek might be more of an access/communication device than Mandarin.
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Date: 2012-04-27 06:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-04-28 04:00 pm (UTC)Also I'm sure learning both Modern and Ancient Greek would be an exercise in language dorking all on its own.
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Date: 2012-04-28 04:14 pm (UTC)I definitely picked up the Teach Yourself Bulgarian. My head will surely explode now.
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Date: 2012-04-28 04:15 pm (UTC)If you learn enough Bulgarian, I can send you (or bring you) some of those learning Modern Greek resources that I have access to. :P
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Date: 2012-04-28 04:18 pm (UTC)Good thing I have a tutor. ;)
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Date: 2012-04-28 04:27 pm (UTC)(also, heh, that's what I do most of the time. Learning languages through English...)
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Date: 2012-04-28 05:07 pm (UTC)(Well, your English is no doubt way better than my Bulgarian will be for a long, long time. I could manage a 'language' via Spanish book easily enough, I suspect, or via French, but probably not on Russian or Japanese.)
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Date: 2012-04-28 05:25 pm (UTC)(<333 yes. One thing at a time.)
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Date: 2012-04-27 01:47 pm (UTC)*snorting laughter*
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