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[kittydesade]

Omission of the dependent infinitive with modals
Willst du jetzt nach Hause? (Gehen is the omitted infinitve.)
Kannst du sprechen Deutsch? Ja, ich kann Deutsch. (Sprechen is the omitted infinitive.)
Ich will einen Deutschkurs. (Machen is the omitted infinitive.)
Sam und Flynn sollen in die Bibliothek, nicht? (Gehen is the omitted infinitive.)

Still need to go through a book and find sample sentences for that, that looks wonky. On the plus side, it's an omission, which probably means it isn't hard and fast required. I'll just sound formal till I get the hang of it.

Separable prefix verbs.
Clu kauft heute Morgen ein.
Er bringt Kaffee nach Hause mit.
Sash sieht gern fern.
Sash und Clu arbeiten die Userwelt durch.
Sash arbeitet die Gridwelt auch durch.
Clu bringt ein Bit mit.
Siehst du jetzt fern?
Warum kauft Sash heute ein?
Was bringt Clu nach Hause mit?

The separable prefix is in the last position in present tense statements, questions, and imperative forms.



I think this is a combination of routine adjustments working hyper, new computer hyper, and having little enough to do at work that I can sit around and think about things like this, suddenly I have this urge to learn C++, Visual Basic, Perl, re-learn Php... Ai. No! I do not need to learn all the computer languages in addition to all the human languages. I really do not. I'm already living with six human languages in one head, and while I can code with a fair degree of proficiency in the couple languages I learned, I do not need to spend my time coding widgets and doodads when I have a writing list a mile long, an apartment to keep clean, my daily routines to keep up with, my guitar to practice, and RP and TV and things to noodle around on. Plus crafts. I do not need programming languages to noodle on.

(Some people impulse buy. I impulse-study.)

(And apparently check my German by translating it into Spanish. Whoops. Come on, brain. Right language.)

I'm having one of those moments where I realize how many variables I'm juggling at any given moment, how many things I do, and it confounds me how the hell I keep it all straight. It's not quite caterpillar brain but it's damn well leading up to it. Better head that off at the pass with keeping busy somehow. Which is probably how I get into juggling twenty variables at once. It used to be the only thing I juggled that much of was writing projects. Now it's writing projects and everything else.

My terrible, terrible facial scar remains in effect. Still no idea what that random DOS window was, maybe just the fact that I installed a bunch of things the other day and the computer was all "Wait, what? Really? What?" Maybe something else. We'll see what happens over the next day or so, I guess. My days of taking the pocket ninja home and keeping it just in case are certainly coming to a middle. I can't find a damn thing on the subject on the internet so I'm guessing it's just something that happens normally, although since usually that stuff happens "behind the scenes" on bootup, or has in the last couple editions of windows I've worked with, I'm very confused. Eh. If it happens again I'll write down what it says and try and figure it out from there.

Edited to add the icon of awesome.