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О набережную плеснула волна - и с ней пришел ответ:
- Это невозможно. Абсолютно невозможно.
Человек на пристани не удивился голосу из пустоты. Кивнул и спросил:
- А как насчет вампиров?

The water splashed against the embankment -- and with it came the answer:
"It's impossible. Absolutely impossible."
The man on the quayside was not surprised by the voice out of empty space. He nodded and asked, "But what about vampires?"

[prepositional phrase (preposition, noun accusative)] [verb past tense fem] [noun] - [coord. conj] [prepositional phrase (preposition, pronoun instrumental)] [verb past tense singular] [noun]:
[article subject] [implied copula verb] [adjective]. [adverb] [adjective]
[noun] [prepositional phrase (preposition, noun prep case)] [negating particle] [verb past tense reflexive] [noun accusative] [prepositional phrase (preposition, noun.. something)]. [verb past tense] [coord. conj.] [verb past tense]
[coord conj.] [question word] [noun] [noun plural accusative?]

Planted today:
to mean значить
to know знать
to be able (to) мочь (можеть)
familiar знакомый
one can можно
power мочь
sign знак
here is вот
yes да
no нет

Oh look! Still nothing decisive on the house. We're stuck at the appraisal stage, for those of you playing at home. Everything else is set and ready to go but until the water problem is fixed the bank appraisers can't/won't finish and the bank won't approve and we're stuck. So now we're waiting for the selling bank to figure out what they're doing. It's not that expensive, so I'm guessing if they don't want to pay for it we can reimburse them. But annoying. Much annoying. And a bit nerve-wracking considering what happened last time.

But keeping up with other things seems to be going pretty well! Keeping up with languages, keeping up with writing and coding projects. And knitting and weaving and all those other good things.

I feel like I should maybe have something more to say here, but I really don't. Grimm, Miss Fisher, hope chest knitting ... I'm currently on afghan squares, and that's going well. House stuff. Writing. It's all very repetitive and I don't feel like repeating it now.

Someone give me something interesting to talk about! Yarrr.

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О набережную плеснула волна This is a very good example of inverted word order which is very easy and typical in Russian. The 'straight' word order would have been Волна плеснула о набрежную - A wave splashed against the embankment, but... you can see how that's not the sentence written. ;) o is preposition.

А как насчет вампиров -> как would be 'how' - question preposition? Something something.
насчет is a noun.
The verb (to be) is omitted. (Yeah, one of those.)

Is the new person at the seller bank better, communications-wise?

... And that clears everything up! Woot!

I'm just going to put question word until someone corrects me, I know what I mean. I think it's one of my niggling little quirks, needing to have the proper terms for everything. Also, that's it, I'm putting a goddamn dictionary on my iPod.

And YES. CLEARLY THEY ARE.

There, Russian corrections done. >.> I need to start us.. ooh. Maybe I can start using the Memrise vocab to make simple sentences now.

. . .

Someone give me something interesting to talk about!

Something on Main St. BLEW UP today, didn't it. Oh, Jag.