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Comparison of adjectives and adverbs

Die Schweiz ist halb so groß wie Österreich. Switzerland is half as large as Austria.
Erik schwimmt nicht so gut wie Klaus. Erik doesn't swim as well as Klaus does.
Diese Reise ist genauso schön wie die letzte.

The construction so...wie is used to express the equality of a person, thing, or activity to another. It is equivalent to English as...as.

Vergleichen Sie diesen mit einem anderen.
ex. Mustafa ist so groß wie Olaf.
... okay, these pictures are utterly nondescriptive, so we'll go with, um. Other things.

Sam ist so attraktiv wie Dean.




Prepositions with the article. Fucking prepositions.

The prepositions ag (at) and i (in) are very important in telling where something is.
e.g. ag bun an halla, at the end of the hall
ag barr an staighre, at the top of the stairs
i do sheomra, in your room

The sequence preposition + an causes eclipses, provided the noun does not begin with t or d:
ag an bhfuinneog, at the window
ag an mbanc, at the bank
ag an gcoláiste, at the college
ag an teach, at the house
ag an doras, at the door

When combined with an (the) the preposition i (in) becomes sa (in the) which causes lenition.

sa chistin, in the kitchen
sa pharlús, in the sitting room
sa chófra, in the cupboard
sa ghairdín, in the garden

In addition to words beginning with l, n, r (never lenited) those beginning with t, d, s are not affected.

sa leithreas, in the toilet
sa teach, in the house
sa dorchadas, in the dark
sa seomra folctha, in the bathroom (lit. room of washing)

So, from the dialogues:
Tá an tae réidh sa chistin.
Tá seomra folctha ag bun an halla.

Mmph. I think I'll... leave that there and let that sink in a bit.


Once Upon A Time last night irritated me so much I cannot even tell you guys. Really? Your only two options are to be a nice Minbari dwarf/fairy, conform, be quiet, admit you are inadequate do what's expected, or skip off happily into the sunset with nothing but your true love to protect you? Really? That's the message you're going to go with? Okay, then. Fuck you, show. The glimpse we had of Carlyle was almost worth it for the bizarre juxtaposition of deeply shadowed sad pain Plunkett eyes with Sorcery fangs, but not quite. We got a little advancement on the plot but not really. Belle's conversation was... interesting. The phrasing implies she's had other loves besides Rumplestiltskin. Which means now my headcanon is she was in love with Gaston before she found out what a shallow idiot he was, because I don't think there was time enough after Rumplestiltskin for her to fall in and out of love again, not before the curse hit.

And then there was a random explosion over stock and I have no idea what happened but I do not like being in a room with randomly yelling people.

Oh, but I did watch the livestream of the chat with Once Upon A Time actors and writers and came away with one spoiler and a couple impressions. My first impression is that Robert Carlyle was really, really bored. Almost the whole time, very few people asked him any questions (although Cyprith's nail polish question got through, which amused me endlessly. I was actually wondering when they started in on the fashion questions if they'd ask hers, and they did! Some sort of greeny-black pre-made thing, apparently.) and mostly he was just sitting there on the end being tiny and fidgeting. My second impression is that the writers are the exact kind of nerds as in from the D&D skit. You know the one? "Where's the CHEETOS" "Are there any GIRLS there?" Which explains so, so much about the show. I was kind of intrigued to know that it takes Carlyle a fair bit of time to get into the Rumple costume, and the boots, which don't actually look that bad, take an hour or so? I think is what he said. Christ. I could probably design a better boot than that.

Still nothing on house stuff, still annoyed at them that we can't get in and find out what's wrong and argh. That whole business is generally annoying. Did get a chunk of writing done this weekend, mostly on BigBang Mixups, need to get back into writing routines this week. Which shouldn't be too hard unless I end up having another pile of house logistics to deal with. Um. Things and stuff. Grimm was interesting this week and I saw way more of Sasha Roiz than I ever realized I wanted to. Or maybe not, I can't decide. Also, fucking Titus Welliver is ALSO in everything. Also also, Grimm is turning more interesting than OUAT by the episode. Which saddens me. And I hope Alcatraz is new tonight. I need my Sam Neill fix. Yes, my life is still fairly boring.