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[kittydesade]

-Это... -устало сказала ночь
-Это ваша проблема, -ответил человек. -Я дало вам неделю. После этого я хочу получить ответ на свою просьбу.
- Просьбу? -уточнила ночь.
Человек на набережной улыбнулся:
-Да. Пока я лишь прошу.
Он повернулся и пошел к машине. - «Волге», которая вновь войдет в моду примерно через полгода.

"That..." The night began wearily.
"It's your problem," the man replied. "I'm giving you one week. And then I want an answer to my request."
"Request?" the night queried.
The man on the embankment smiled. "Yes. So far I'm only asking."
He turned around and walked toward his car -- a Russian Volga, the model that would be back in fashion again in about six months.

[interjection] [adverb] [verb past tense] [noun]
[indicative pronoun] [poss. pronoun] [noun], [verb past tense] [noun]. [pronoun] [verb... progressive?] [pronoun dative] [noun accusative]. [prepositional phrase (preposition, pronoun genitive)] [pronoun] [verb] [verb infinitive] [noun accusative] [prepositional phrase (preposition, particle? accusative, noun accusative)]
[noun accusative] [verb past tense] [noun]
[noun] [prepositional phrase (preposition, noun)] [verb past tense reflexive]
[interjection] [adverb] [pronoun] [adjective] [verb present]
[pronoun] [verb past tense reflexive] [conjunction] [verb past tense] [prepositional phrase (preposition, noun accusative?)] [proper noun] [noun] [relative pronoun] [adverb] [verb present] [prepositional phrase (preposition, noun accusative)] [adverb] [adjectiveish?] [noun]

And we now pause for the brief victory dance of I READ ALMOST ALL OF THAT. And what I didn't read, it was because of vocab issues. Holy fuck I might actually be able to do this.


I have found the Best Thing Ever. It is this. It MAKES TYPEWRITER SOUNDS AS YOU TYPE. Best. Thing. Ever. You have to turn the sounds on, though, in 'preferences' at the bottom. And you can choose between manual and electric typewriter. I am ridiculously amused.

Massive chocolate cravings. Pretty much out of nowhere, too. Not sure what's up with that. I mean, it's the week before Shark Week so that could account for some of it, but not all. Or at least, not usually.

Still haven't heard anything new on house stuff. Realty Lady and I are kind of doing the email equivalent of clutching each other on the deck of the ship that may or may not be crumbling beneath us. We'll see how this goes.

And I spent a little bit of today amusing myself with seeing how long we could go not in English with Anna. Mostly in French and Spanish, since those are the languages we have any degree of fluency in. It was way more fun than I expected, somehow, and between this and my newfound victories in Russian I might spend more time doing this whole no-English thing. We'll see. I still need to build up my vocab but Memrise is awesome for that, if a bit random in its choices of word sequence.

STILL need a polyglot icon. Come on, Jag. You know how to do this, make one.

Comments

[kikibug13]

THAT IS A FUN GAME AND I'LL BE UP FOR IT WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE IT, TOO.

Я дало вам неделю. -> даю - дало is past tense neutral; даю is future. ;)

[kittydesade]

.. .dammit! And this is what happens when I swing wildly between everything ever. Ah, one out of .. um. Lots. Not bad.

[kikibug13]

Yup! And, remember, typos happen in every and any languages. Well done!

[lemon_badgeress]

...no, the Best Thing Ever would be a thing that had manual typewriter sounds, that sort of visuals, AND gave you a kitten picture every 100 words.

But it is very close.

[kittydesade]

Now all we need are the kittens and the pictures!