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[kittydesade]

Making noun phrases using のand the dictionary/plain present affirmative forms of verbs.

私は本をよむのが好きです。
I like reading books.

Dictionary/plain present affirmative verbs come under three groups. Irregular, of which there are only two, る-verbs, and う-verbs. We remember this from school, but remember that in most verbs when preceded with a vowel, even if it's written as a る-verb it acts like an う-verb.

きます　くる
します　する
べんきょうします　べんきょうする

います　いる
おきます　おきる
たべます　たべる
ねます　ねる

あります　ある
かいます　かう
かきます　かく
のみます　のむ
はなします　はなす
よみます　よむ

スミス：田中さんは何をするのが好きですか。
田中：そうですね。私は料理をするのが好きですね。スミスさんはどうですか。
スミス：僕はクラシックを聞くのが好きです。

１．プールでおよぐのがすきです。
２．ジョギングをするのがすきです。
３．テニスをするのが好きです。
４．しゃしんをとるのが好きです。
５．本を読むのが好きです。
６．りょこうをするのが好きです。
７．うたをうたうのが好きです。
８．ドライブにいくのが好きです。
９．おすしを食べるのが好きです。
１０．ファミコンをするのが好きです。
１１．りょうりをするのが好きです。
１２．えをかくのが好きです。


I'm actually kind of curious who can read the kanji here and who can't. I mean, whose computers are set up for it, that is. I have no idea who among y'all actually speaks Japanese, but I'm always curious to know that, too.

So, Prop 8 is hearing closing arguments today, if I understand the news article right, which means deliberations are tomorrow, I think. This fills me mostly with dread, because California hasn't had the best track record and lately the trend seems to be towards banning or otherwise marginalizing gay rights. Yay. It's not over yet, but I'm already depressed and bracing myself. And writing fic in my head. So far I have a snippet of a fic featuring two OCs. He heard the water run in the bathroom; possibly Peter being quietly sick. They'd spent all of dinner sitting on the couch eating one handed, clutching each other's hands and watching the television. Peter'd even managed to choke down most of the very well done chicken. Paul hadn't even tried.

Peter was upset, visibly so. Poor bastard. He was far more high strung than Paul, or maybe it was just that Paul was too mellow and laid back, one of the two. He vacillated between thinking that he was laying down and playing doormat for the social conservatives of the world and that Peter was going to die young of a heart attack from being so stressed out all the time.

It's not the most polished thing I've ever done, but there's that response piece noted down. It just worries me. On both a Pastor Martin Niemöller "First they came for the..." level and on a level that has at least a few friends in California, and while none of them are gay or lesbian or bisexual with a same sex partner, I know they're concerned for the issue. Hell, I'd like my ... second cousin? First cousin once removed? To grow up in a place where you can marry whoever you love regardless of who's got what bits.

Sigh, world. Sigh.