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carrieross, I know that in your time zone your birthday has come and gone, but the final stages of this project took a lot longer than I thought they would.
First, a caveat... Please keep in mind that I only started this a couple of weeks ago, and I am a stupid American who only has a "for Dummies" book and a dictionary as references and who cannot for the life of her figure out when to change endings for masculine and feminine (I apologize in advance if I somehow make you a boy, and you can laugh if I made myself a boy) and who has the worst time figuring out when to drop the subject and when to move the object before the verb.
*crosses fingers and hopes for the best*
Tu hai detto che tu sei stato frustrato con inglese, dunque io ho avuto un'idea. Ho pensato, "Ti scritto una lettera in italiani." Era più difficile di ho pensato sarebbe. Voglio dire che tu sei una cara amica. Grazie. Amo "parlare" a tu molto. Quando vedo che ho un messaggio da tu, sono molto felice. Felice è buono. Non ti ho scritto molto, ma penso di tu molto. Spero che rimaniamo amici sempre. Ti desidero un compleanno felice ed un grand'anno. So che ho scritto come un bambino (o peggiore!), ma ho tentato. (Questa lettera breve me ha portato tanto tempo a scrivere. Capisco perché tu sei frustrato.) Spero tu capisci cosa ho tentato di scrivere senza molta difficoltà.
Whether or not that above message made any sense whatsoever (and feel free to make corrections, otherwise how will I learn?), here is what I would have liked to have said if my Italian were sophisticated enough to accomplish it. (And why wouldn't my Italian be sophisticated after a couple of weeks of study?!?! *grin*)
I know I have said it before, but it can never be said enough. I value your friendship so much. I never dreamed when I started playing around on FF so long ago that I would find people half a world away that I feel such a connection with. Even though we don't agree on everything (and where would be the fun if we did? I like discussion!), I value your opinion and I know (unless you are very good at pretending) that you value mine. I am so happy whenever I see that I have some kind of communication from you (whether it is a LJ comment or an email), and happiness is just so precious. I know that I don't do as good a job of responding now as I used to, but I want you to know that I often think of you. It's weird the number of times that something will happen in RL and my first thought is what I would say about it to you or Anna or someone else. Just knowing that you are there as a source of support means so much to me that I cannot express it even in my native language. I hope that even if our interests diverge further that we will never lose the connection that we have. So, here's wishing you a happy birthday and a great year to come!
So, happy birthday again, and your "real" present will be coming up later. It ended up becoming more complex than I had thought it was going to be, plus RL (and my other silly idea for a present) ended up taking a lot of time. Expect your present sometime in the next couple of weeks. (I hope to be able to work on it this weekend, but I am babysitting both days and have a bunch of other stuff (very late banners, eeek!) that I need to do, so I might not be able to finish it until next weekend. Sorry.)
First, a caveat... Please keep in mind that I only started this a couple of weeks ago, and I am a stupid American who only has a "for Dummies" book and a dictionary as references and who cannot for the life of her figure out when to change endings for masculine and feminine (I apologize in advance if I somehow make you a boy, and you can laugh if I made myself a boy) and who has the worst time figuring out when to drop the subject and when to move the object before the verb.
*crosses fingers and hopes for the best*
Tu hai detto che tu sei stato frustrato con inglese, dunque io ho avuto un'idea. Ho pensato, "Ti scritto una lettera in italiani." Era più difficile di ho pensato sarebbe. Voglio dire che tu sei una cara amica. Grazie. Amo "parlare" a tu molto. Quando vedo che ho un messaggio da tu, sono molto felice. Felice è buono. Non ti ho scritto molto, ma penso di tu molto. Spero che rimaniamo amici sempre. Ti desidero un compleanno felice ed un grand'anno. So che ho scritto come un bambino (o peggiore!), ma ho tentato. (Questa lettera breve me ha portato tanto tempo a scrivere. Capisco perché tu sei frustrato.) Spero tu capisci cosa ho tentato di scrivere senza molta difficoltà.
Whether or not that above message made any sense whatsoever (and feel free to make corrections, otherwise how will I learn?), here is what I would have liked to have said if my Italian were sophisticated enough to accomplish it. (And why wouldn't my Italian be sophisticated after a couple of weeks of study?!?! *grin*)
I know I have said it before, but it can never be said enough. I value your friendship so much. I never dreamed when I started playing around on FF so long ago that I would find people half a world away that I feel such a connection with. Even though we don't agree on everything (and where would be the fun if we did? I like discussion!), I value your opinion and I know (unless you are very good at pretending) that you value mine. I am so happy whenever I see that I have some kind of communication from you (whether it is a LJ comment or an email), and happiness is just so precious. I know that I don't do as good a job of responding now as I used to, but I want you to know that I often think of you. It's weird the number of times that something will happen in RL and my first thought is what I would say about it to you or Anna or someone else. Just knowing that you are there as a source of support means so much to me that I cannot express it even in my native language. I hope that even if our interests diverge further that we will never lose the connection that we have. So, here's wishing you a happy birthday and a great year to come!
So, happy birthday again, and your "real" present will be coming up later. It ended up becoming more complex than I had thought it was going to be, plus RL (and my other silly idea for a present) ended up taking a lot of time. Expect your present sometime in the next couple of weeks. (I hope to be able to work on it this weekend, but I am babysitting both days and have a bunch of other stuff (very late banners, eeek!) that I need to do, so I might not be able to finish it until next weekend. Sorry.)