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German adjectives and adverbs may be formed from some nouns or verbs by adding the suffix -lich. The suffix -lich may also be added to other adjectives. (Presumably to form adverbs.) Some stem vowels are then umlauted. Mmm umlauts.

der Beruf (occupation) -- beruflich (career-related)
der Freund (friend) -- freundlich (friendly)
fragen (to ask) -- fraglich (questionable)
krank (ill, sick) -- kränklich (sickly)

Politisch Reden (OH FUCK NO.): Gestern Abend hat der Wirtschaftsminister an der Universität eine Rede gehalten. Heute Abend soll die Rede im Fernsehen kommen. Claudia und Uwe sprechen über die Rede. Geben Sie die fett gedruckten Wörter auf Englisch wieder. Welche Verben, Substantive, oder Adjektive sind mit den fett gedruckten Wörter verwandt?

CLAUDIA: Wie war es gestern Abend?
UWE: Ich fand die Rede inhaltlich (meaning in regard to the content, and damn that's a useful word) sehr interessant, aber Sarah sagt, der Minister hat über viele politisch unkluge Dinge gesprochen.
CLAUDIA: Dass Sarah das gesagt hat, ist wirklich unglaublich (unbelievable, un-/un- glaub-/believe- -lich/-able). Schließlich (finally, schließ/to close, -lich/-ly) ist ihr Vater der Assistent des Ministers. Hat sie das wirklich öffentlich (openly, offen-/open-, -lich/-ly) gesagt?
UWE: Nein, sie hat mir das privat gesagt. Wusstest tu eigentlich, dass Hans-Jürgen gestern Abend schließlich doch noch gekommen ist?
CLAUDIA: Ja, aber es ist fraglich (questionable, frag-/question-, -lich/-able), ob er heute Abend kommt. Wir wollten doch nach der Sendung die Rede diskutieren, nicht wahr?
UWE: Ja, und ich freue mich schon darauf. Gestern Abend war jeder so freundlich. (friendly, freund-/friend- -lich/-ly)
CLAUDIA: Das ist natürlich (naturally, natur-/natural- -lich/-ly) verständlich. (understandable, verstehen/to understand, -lich/-able) Die meisten sind Politologiestudenten und haben die gleichen Interessen.

I have no idea why an 'a' keeps wanting to creep into 'Deutsch.' No a, fingers. Learn better.

It's been a day. That morning did not make anything any better, and it's just plain been a day. No sign of anything out of James Purefoy, which means that email that freaked me out this morning was for nothing. Alas. I demand some kind of ego-stroking gratification if I'm going to be diving under my desk, dammit! Maybe that was Twitter burping for some reason, who knows. And there's been some other stuff and all in all, I'm glad it's Friday.

For my own porpoises and other marine life, things I have to do. Well, first I have to finish this order since apparently my shipping is not done for the day as I thought. Then knit that test cuff/gauge swatch for the arm warmers. Then cast on and start knitting the arm warmers. Do some Memrise before going home. Go home, chop up and cook all the chicken, settle in and finish line edits on Black Ice, then start finishing some WIPs. Watch Supernatural season 1 while poking at WIPs. Saturday is all the analysis ever and packing and then WIPs, Sunday is working on the house, pulling down the vines trying to take over the garage, maybe pulling down the icky drywall in the garage too. We'll see. And I need to work out a watering schedule with the boy while workers are still in the house. Which fortunately won't be much longer.

Oh god, that means I get to start spending money on furniture. Eek. Fortunately there's only a short list of furniture and appliances we really need, and the rest we can sort of sock money away for. Plus, Craigslist. And the ReStore. Come on, self, there's plenty of places you can get decent tables, end tables, shit like that. Calm down.

(We now pause for a moment while I freak out over the fact that I am furnishing a house. A fucking awesome house, I might add. Squee!)

Absolutely nothing I have seen so far inclines me to watch Elementary, which leaves me feeling rather sad. The positive fan responses don't sufficiently counterbalance my initial take of with fifty plus stories in the original why the hell did you feel the need to make up a mystery for the pilot?? and at least one review interpreting their Holmes-Watson as going back to the Holmes-Bastard Watson-long-suffering leaves me with I'll take that in Cumberbatch-Freeman form, thanks. At least Freeman's schtick is that he's long-suffering, whether it's an abusive partner or the absurdities of the universe or being hauled off on adventures by dwarves. I'd say this is a plea for people to find me reasons to watch it, only it's not so much that as a quiet whine and needing to go curl up with my Collected Works. Which are packed and in the garage. Fuck.

Still tired. Tired tired. I want my guitar, but it's still tucked behind the amp. On the other hand, the rest of the boxes are out of the way, maybe I should just move the amp, convince the boy we need to take over the TV stand so that's out of the way, and break out the damn guitar. Since that's not going anywhere until we're actually living in the house. Still need to catch up on any of the TV ever. Maybe this weekend will also be Warehouse 13 weekend, after analysis. Someone remind me of that later. When I have brain cells. And am not at work. Mostly that second one.

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Actually I wouldn't agree with the "Holmes-Bastard Watson-long-suffering" characterisation at all as concerns Elementary. Holmes is shown to have a lot of empathy with the victims and is growing in appreciation for Watson. They are very much not the Cumberbatch/Freeman variations. Which isn't to say you'd necessarily enjoy it, but I'm quite liking it so far.

... oh, is THAT what Elementary is? Hmph.

Should I poke at Copper?