kittydesade | (no subject)

All right, let's try this again, once more with actually going through and doing the damn answers or writing my own, which would be more practicing and less being lazy.

1. Und du hast vor deinen Job aufzugeben? Ich müsste natürlich viel aufgeben.
2. Willst du dann alle Kontinente besuchen? Ja, natürlich. Das wäre schön.
3. Und ein ganzes Jahr lang nur reisen? Wenn ich Geld hätte, würde ich lange reisen.
4. Hast du vor alleine zu reisen? Ja, ich reise oft alleine.
5. Musst du dann nicht während der Reise Geld verdienen? Hoffentlich, aber ich glaube, dass ich müsse während der Reise einige Geld verdienen.
6. Und was passiert mit deinen ganzen Sachen? Ich müsse meinen ganzen Sachen im meine Mutters Hause legen. (Not sure about that phrase there.)
7. Glaubst du, dass du danach wieder deinen Job bekommst? Ich glaube, ja.
8. Was sagt denn deine Freund dazu?... bleh. I have no idea.

Sagen Sie, was Sie unter bestimmten Bedingungen tun würden. Fragen Sie dann Ihre Partnerin/Ihre Partner.
Was würdest du tun,...
1. wenn du viel Geld bekämst? Wenn ich viel Geld bekäme, ich würde meine Hypothek abzhalen.
2. wenn heute Sonntag wäre? Ich würde mein Haus aufräumen.
3. wenn du heute Geburtstag hättest? Ich würde (I assume we're meant to use the würde) zu ein Bar gehen.
4. wenn du jetzt zwei Wochen Ferien hättest. Ich würde mein Haus aufräumen, weil es ist überhäuft. and it would take two weeks. Yeesh.
5. wenn du das teure Essen im Restaurant nicht bezahlen könntest? ... um. I try really hard not to make that happen. Ich würde mit KreditKarte bezahlen.
6. wenn Freunde dich zu einem Fest nicht einladen würden? ... Ich kenn nicht. Nicht mich Sorgen machen?

I will soon be done with Chapter 11 in my German book, which is Kapitel Elf. My current Tolkien re-obsession will be sad, because that was terribly funny.

But, there. Redid yesterday's exercises once more with feeling, did an exercise for today. That's my act of virtue for the day, that must mean I don't have to put away the laundry or clean up the office or anything else for the rest of today, right? Right? No? Okay, no. At least there remains the possibility that the office will be easy to pick up and then I can spend the rest of the day doing laundry to the dulcet tones of either Jekyll or Person of Interest. Picking up that show for Murderboarding was one of the best decisions ever. And while I'm thinking of things I should do, actually, tossing a bunch of the trash into the garage to wait for the appointed massive trash pickup time should go in on that list. So, getting home, cleaning trash out of living room, doing Japanese, then cleaning office. Dinner is leftovers, so no worries there. And after the office maybe tackle the ginormous piles of clean and dirty laundry and get my clothes the fuck upstairs and into my dresser which is actually in my bedroom. Because we actually have all our damn furniture which means the house needs to stop looking like a disaster area any time now.

Also I think a broom and dustpan needs to permanently be stationed in the upstairs hallway because good christ it's a freaking ladybug invasion up there. I turn my back for five freaking minutes and fifty ladybugs are scattered all over the floor again. I mind those a lot less than the ants which attempted to take over my kitchen, but goddamn. This is not an insect sanctuary. Get the fuck out of my house. Go live in my garden, I hear that's good for everyone.

(Not that I have a garden yet, but MINOR DETAILS.)

Somehow this morning I managed to get into a brief discussion of how why the fuck is English the only language anyone in the discussion spoke where "to like" is a thing? Because all the other languages we speak either prefer the "X pleases Person" construction or have an entirely other construction. Like Irish. Which apparently goes "X is good with Person," except Irish is a verb-first language (which is WTF all on its own) so that it's more like "Is good with Person X." And then Japanese is "Person (which I am talking about) X (which is the thing in question) good/favored is." As best as I can translate. Japanese is weird because of particles and the way sentences are constructed anyway, and I'm not actually sure of the language family history there, but I'm sure it makes sense in greater linguistic context! And, okay, yes, Irish also has the phrase "X pleases Person" but why is English the odd language out? Freaking languages how do they work. Come to that, I wonder which is more commonly used in Russian, which has both, Person likes X or X pleases Person. I'm just so curious!

Yes, these are the things that occupy my brain while I'm packing boxes/stocking shelves/labeling things. Subject-Verb-Predicate/Subject-Predicate-Verb/Verb-Subject-Predicate ... what IS Irish, anyway? Wiki says it's Verb Subject Object (close enough) language, and apparently that's different from most of the Indo-European languages. It's certainly different from all the ones I know! So, what the hell, Gaelige? Anyway, yes, these are things I think about. I have geeky tastes. Shaddup.

And, you know, this is why I shouldn't be allowed to go through every Tolkien book I can find to cobble together a working knowledge of Khuzdul, Quenya, Sindarin, or any of the other damn conlangs. Seriously. I have other shit to do. Like clean house. And watch Person of Interest. And write. And blog. And soon, edit.

I just want to know what freaking battle cry that was Thorin was shouting at Azanulbizar. Dammit.