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Feb 08, 2011 19:38

So I was doing this Russian essay contest, in an effort to get my professor to not hate me after I royally fucked up the study abroad thing (and also to practice essay writing I guess ( Read more... )

from the department of no one cares, look at your life look at your choices

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skelody February 9 2011, 02:15:43 UTC
HAHAHAHAHA

okay I shouldn't laugh at your pain

so weird though, this happened to me just today -- the Spanish comp professor said time machine and I definitely heard time-traveling car, because, well, машина.

Were you handwriting or typing?

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pentatonikk February 9 2011, 02:31:36 UTC
No, go ahead, laugh! I probably would have, bitterly, if we'd been allowed to make noise.

I feel like there's a Back to the Future joke to be made there, but it's not gelling. but your Spanish class sounds excellent, if there's time travel involved

Handwriting--if I'd been typing I think I'd have happily written часта яуе and gone on my merry way (the problems with phonetic keyboards no one told me about)

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skelody February 9 2011, 04:33:51 UTC
Heh, he was just bringing up examples of what we might use as "news" in our articles for the next class. It would be so cool if we were actually investigating time travel ;o;

(Okay, despite the fact that I should be totally immersed in the context of this conversation, I still read that as, like частo, and was so confused.)

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pentatonikk February 9 2011, 04:41:25 UTC
Do it anyway!

fff, the worst part of that is I'm pretty sure I really did spell it as часта for like a week at some point. (akanje, bane of my already dubious spelling abilities)

...and now I'm reading that phonetically and getting "chasta yahweh" which is pretty much terrible

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pentatonikk February 9 2011, 03:32:17 UTC
It's like...some hybrid Spanish-Russian monstrosity written in Cyrillic because bad things happen when I turn my brain off.

bad things happen when I leave it on too

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pentatonikk February 9 2011, 03:36:52 UTC
"Music was an important part of my life"

wow trying to translate that feels weird even though it's totally straightforward

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pentatonikk February 9 2011, 06:07:42 UTC
what are you doing

goodnight

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talkjive February 9 2011, 15:31:32 UTC
A+ this was amazing

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