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[kittydesade]

Müssen
Ich muss, du musst, er/es/sie muss, wir müssen, ihr müsst, sie müssen, Sie müssen
Ich muss jetzt Deutsch studieren. Auch, ich muss heute Abend Japanisch studieren.
Du musst diese Artikel lesen. Du musst auch Spanisch studieren.
Sam Flynn muss mit dem Computer arbeiten. Alan muss die Zeitung lesen.
Ich und Anna müssen link roundup machen. Wir müssen auch entspannen heute Abend.
Du und deine Freund müsst dieses Buch lesen. Ihr müsst auch studieren für die Klausur.
Joss und Martine müssen einkaufen gehen. Sie müssen Brot und Milch kaufen.

Ich soll, du sollst, er/es/sie soll, wir sollen, ihr sollt, sie sollen, Sie sollen.
Ich soll Gitarre ausüben (practice) Abends. Ich soll auch ausüben Pfeife.
Du sollst Abendessen machen. Auch, du sollst Karotten kaufen.
Clu soll die Grid aufrechterhalten. Tron soll die Users behüten.
Wir sollen die Sprache studieren. Wir auch sollen die Fitnesstraining machen.
Ihr sollt Spanisch studieren. Ihr sollt diese Buch von Laura Esquivel lesen.
Sam Flynn und sein Vater sollen entspannen. Clu und Tron sollen Inlineskaten gehen.


This is another of those "... that explains a lot" type articles. It's also in Spanish, so most of my f-list is likely to be very confused, but I figure there are enough Spanish Speakers/Studiers that it's worth linking to the original, including the ones I don't know about. I can translate if people want, but the gist of it is that bilingual babies around 8 months can distinguish between the shapes of people speaking French and English. And other early-bilingualism-makes-you-smart type things. Assuming you do it right, of course, as in actually speak the language and don't babytalk it.

Sometimes I wonder why I do this whole studying languages thing. I mean, there are language exercises I could do that don't involve picking up whole new languages, to relax. Hell, sometimes I wonder how many people also find sentence construction and comparing grammar rules relaxing. I suspect there are far more of us lurking on the internet than I feel like, which wouldn't be hard because I feel like it's a club of three or four right now. And on the other hand, then I make new friends by getting into random discussions about the quirks of one language or another, or several, or a whole language family and I remember that, yes. Studying languages on your own time for your own amusement is odd, but there are far odder things out there. Like platypuses. And Uggs.

I tripped over some more of my yarn the other day, literally. It was hiding under the monster red scale and when I moved things around, it came out. Four or five skeins worth. I relegated it to the freezer to kill anything living there, I guess Monday I'll give it over to the aunt to make it go funny colors. And then I'll take pictures of it and whoever wants it can have it. I don't even know what it'll end up being. It amuses me!

Today's been one of those strange days where nothing happened nothing happened nothing happened OH SHIT STUFF'S HAPPENING. Right now I'm treading water till I go home, at which time the strange poll drabble will be explained and I will get to shower the sweat off and sit back and relax and write stories that I have no idea where they're coming from or where they're going. Fun! I love it when stories do that, really. What the hell, pixies? For real?