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[kittydesade]

Ahem. Back to time expressions in the accusative. Trying not to slip into French.

1. Wann kommt sie zu uns? Sie kommt dieses Wochenende zu uns.
2. Wie lange bleibt sie? Sie bleibt einen Tag.
3. Wie oft übt sie? Sie übt jeden Morgen.
4. Wann fährt sie wieder weg? Sie fährt nächsten Montag wieder weg.
5. Wann kommt sie wieder? Sie kommt nächste(s?) Jahr wieder.
6. Wie lange bleibt sie dann? Dann bleibt sie einen Monat.



Japanese has two verbs for giving. The choice between the pair depends on the direction of the transaction. When a thing moves away from a person the transaction is described in terms of the verb あげる. When a thing moves towards a person, the verb is　くれる.

With both あげる　and くれる the giver is the subject of the sentence and is accompanied by　は or　が. The recipient is accompanied by the particle　に.

私はその女の人に花をあげます。
I will give the woman flowers.

その女の人は男の人に時計をあげました。
The woman gave the man a watch.

りょうしんが私に新しい車をくれるかもしれません。
My parents may give me a new car.

Transactions which are described with the verb kureru can also be described in terms of "receiving" or morau. With morau, it is the recipient that is the subject of the sentence, with wa or ga, and the giver is accompanied by the particle ni or kara.

私はあねに　あねから　古い辞書をもらいました。
I received an old dictionary from my big sister.

recipientは/がgiverに/から　もらう

Compare the above もらう sentence with the　くれる　version below, noting the particle switch.

姉が私に古い辞書をくれました。
My big sister gave me an old dictionary.



Check off the hypothetical statements. Leave the conditional statements unchecked.
Предложения на английском языке.
1. X If the weather had been nice, we would have gone on a picnic yesterday.
2. Since it was cold, we went to the movies instead.
3. Tomorrow we'll study, even if it's nice outside.
4. X If we hadn't relaxed yesterday, we wouldn't have to do homework tomorrow.

Предложения на русском языке.
а. Если завтра будет хорошая погода, давай поедем на дачу.
б. X Если бы мне не надо было заниматься, я бы поехала с тобой.
в. Завтра утром я иду в библиотеку, даже если вы поедете на дачу.
г. А если вы поедете на дачу в субботу, я тоже поеду.



I feel like I should have something constructive, productive, or incendiary to say about the Occupy protests. And the fact that the police seem to have turned on them, are no longer treating the protesters with politeness. That veterans are being dragged off for peaceful protests, that the media refuses to cover it in a way that favors anything but the status quo, that the Republican/Conservative/Corporate opposition (because it's a little of each) is becoming more strident and more hysterical in their opposition to the Occupy protests with every passing day. I feel like I should be turning myself into some kind of firebrand, but I don't have the energy. I don't have the hope. I don't have the illusion that the kinds of equalities that happen in other countries can't happen here because This Is America, Goddammit. Yes, it can happen. Yes, the police can be and has been bought, before if not now. No, it's not probable that people will be black bagged but yes, it can happen here. And has happened.

Yes, there can be tremendous inequality in this country, and there is. Yes, people can have no clean water (and there are plans to deny people clean water in Alabama), no adequate health care (Mississippi), education with outdated materials and inadequate facilities that would be featured in any brochure about Haiti or some African countries or so on (California, Texas, all over the damn place). Yes, we can have so-called third-world problems here because here in America, in the so-called first world, we have increasingly large pockets of third-world lifestyles. People with not enough food, clean water, health care, protection from the elements, people simply with not enough. Yes, we can be and are being fucked over by the establishment. This is America. We have Establishment here too, and there is class warfare going on. It's Scorched Earth warfare, and the rich are winning. So no, I don't have any hope to deal with politics or protests or carry a banner or wave a flag. Maybe I should, but I don't. I did that six months ago with the Wisconsin bullshit, and only a handful of people gave a damn then.

I'm tired. I'm tired of the shit that's going on and I'm tired of going out of my way to fight it. Maybe at some point I'll find my giveadamn again.

I'm knitting a Jayne hat? I installed my Blu-Ray internal drive all by myself. I've gotten to the new episodes of Haven, or, well, not the new ones, but the ones I haven't seen yet. I managed to make a decent cream of tomato soup. I'm eating healthy, not too much candy, lots of exercise. I'm slowly getting faster on the guitar, working on chords and fingering. Things aren't all bad even on a macro scale, I'm just having a hard time seeing the general good right now, so I'm going to see the personal good, if you don't mind. I'm getting my Big Bang written. I'm doing my job. I'm learning languages! It's not all bad.