I had a dream several days ago. Where I badly, badly, BADLY failed my biology diploma. >___< Arrrgh. It took me quite a while (after waking) to sort out what was the dream, and what was reality
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A thousand linguists were surveyed to find out the world's most difficult words to translate.
A friend of mine is a linguist, doing translation work with a language spoken by a small ethnic group in Tanzania. The language has many words to do with hunting, each with subtly different meanings. You can't translate them exactly into English; you have to approximate them with phrases like "lying in wait", "crouching in wait", "tracking a wounded animal", etc.
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anonymous
July 3 2004, 23:21:44 UTC
Our Finite Existence is only a test, given by God Almighty, to see whether we receive an A, B, C, D or F at the Last Judgment: Gotta be pretty bad-news to get an F, dude; Gotta go somewhere at your demise, too. Anywhere else besides UP is digging your own grave. Think I'm DISSIN'? Think you're MISSIN' (the point).
Woo, I know what 'googly' means. *dances* I can definitely see how it would be confusing in most places, though. Ah, good old cricket. XD
Dreams are powerful things, in my experience. I almost never remember my dreams, but I often strongly remember the feeling from them. It's quite weird, actually. I'll wake up and feel unavoidably ecstatic, happy and content with vague recollections of a dream (not what was in it, just that I had one), and generally feeling great. There are also the times when I'll wake up to feel really terrible; melancholy, upset, even crying into my pillow occasionally. What's more, they often set my mood for the beginning of the day, and the sadness in particular is hard to shake off. All this from dreams I cannot remember...seems a little unnatural.
Pouty girls...the times I can think of where they are cute are in anime, but it is very rare to get the same effect in real life, in my opinion. Somehow, being childish in anime is insanely cute, but in real life it is incredibly annoying and tiring. :)
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A friend of mine is a linguist, doing translation work with a language spoken by a small ethnic group in Tanzania. The language has many words to do with hunting, each with subtly different meanings. You can't translate them exactly into English; you have to approximate them with phrases like "lying in wait", "crouching in wait", "tracking a wounded animal", etc.
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Dreams are powerful things, in my experience. I almost never remember my dreams, but I often strongly remember the feeling from them. It's quite weird, actually. I'll wake up and feel unavoidably ecstatic, happy and content with vague recollections of a dream (not what was in it, just that I had one), and generally feeling great. There are also the times when I'll wake up to feel really terrible; melancholy, upset, even crying into my pillow occasionally. What's more, they often set my mood for the beginning of the day, and the sadness in particular is hard to shake off. All this from dreams I cannot remember...seems a little unnatural.
Pouty girls...the times I can think of where they are cute are in anime, but it is very rare to get the same effect in real life, in my opinion. Somehow, being childish in anime is insanely cute, but in real life it is incredibly annoying and tiring. :)
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