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Reading how French seems to not agree with your system, I was reminded of a high-school classmate of mine who was taking French classes; she said that French felt like speaking with marbles in your mouth! Of course, being Haitian, French comes quite easily to me, but to each his own.

Good luck studying Japanese and its four writing systems! Hopefully it won't be much of a pain for you, since your language skills are not as slavishly tied to the Latin alphabet like those of most of us here in the West.

Silly of me, I know, but it's just gotten slow at work, and I needed something to help pass the time.

I'm happy to say it was quite easy to follow, despite having no idea what else has happened so far. It probably helps that it is (I think) a sort of interlude in the story, with the agents taking some time out of the action to rest and figure some things out. There were some nice character moments for everyone, especially Sergio and Nikki. Actually, the whole thing almost felt like an excerpt from an original story more than a mission. I could visualize everything and sense the bittersweet mood very well. It was a very nice read, and I will have to remember to go back and read the first five chapters sometime. {= )

~Neshomeh

I took Spanish courses all through high school. Living in Arizona (a state with a heavy Mexican population), it seemed like a good idea to become fluent at the time. Unfortunately, I haven't kept up on it, and I would be too embarrassed to even try speaking with a Spanish-fluent person anymore. I can generally read Spanish with minimal trouble, but actively spoken Spanish tends to go too fast for me to parse out.

Latin, another option for the language credit at my high school, may have been the better option, at least for college. Some of the biology courses I took required learning the scientific names of specific animals, and since most Latin names are basically descriptions of their body parts, it would have been nice to know that Latin.

—doctorlit va a comer el tenedor que él encontré en un salmon si la fantasma de la col muerte venga.

1) My first language is Hebrew.
2) English is mandatory in schools here, but I started learning English earlier because the only TV we had was British satellite. I mostly learned by myself; school didn't do me a lot of good.
3) I know smatterings of Arabic and Japanese — not quite enough to hold a conversation, but close. I'm going to start studying Japanese at uni this year.
4) I took two years of Arabic in middle school because it interested me (and the other option was French, which gives me a headache when I hear it for too long). I had... four years of Japanese, in elementary and middle school, as mandatory and elective classes in a gifted children's school I went to.

Did your parents switched to an antenna or got a package without kids' channels?

Sadly my parents switched TV providers a few months ago so I've been forced to wait until episodes come out on Netflix to watch them...

If so, what are your thoughts on the finale as a whole, and especially on the last few scenes?

This idea was floating around my mind for a while now, and I thought: what better time to ask than on the heels of a different language question?

It's clear by now that we are quite geographically diverse. So, there should be some linguistic diversity to go along with it! The question is: how diverse are we?

If English is not your first language:

• What is your first language?


• When did you decide to learn English? (Was it even a choice, or a required subject in school?) How did you learn English (e.g., by immersion, in school, self study)?

• What languages do you know besides English (and your first language, if it isn't English)?
  (Yes, dead languages count. And no, Fangirl Japanese does not count. I'm asking about languages that, even though you may not be fluent in, you know enough of to hold a basic conversation in (or read in with minimal need of a dictionary, in the case of a dead language).)


• Why did you decide to learn those languages?


• When did you learn them? How?

how were the lyrics archaic? Was it old verb forms (similar to how English verbs used to end with "-eth" but now end in "-s" in the third person singular), or perhaps old words that nobody uses anymore (akin to, e.g., someone using "assay" instead of "attempt")?

Not completely dark, for there was a faint red glow coming from nowhere in particular, but it didn't extend very far past the door. It revealed that the floor and the wall around the door were stone, covered in some kind of sticky, white substance that hung in strands from the walls and covered the floor. It occasionally lumped together, forming a kind of large boulder, and there were stone columns that looked like they had been carved by humanoid hands.

Jack had unholstered his sidearm, retracted the bolt, and fired- twelve times, by the Detective's count. Each bullet hit its mark, and Jack's expression didn't change once. His eyes were as dead as the little red-eyed creatures.

"Sorry, but I've seen this episode Scooby Doo before, and- no offense- I thought he was a p\*\*\*\* then."

The Detective just looked at Jack, raising an eyebrow and uncovering his ears- gunfire in a tight corridor wasn't quiet. "Why the hell did you bring your sidearm to medical?" he demanded.

"Hunter thing," said Jack with a shrug.

"Right," the Detective said, nodding. "Well, you could've at least brought my staser."

"Yeah," said Jack with a grin. "I could've. Now, you wanna stand around whining about how I stole your spotlight or you wanna keep walking?"

The Detective just grinned, and they walked on.

https://rc1587.wordpress.com/2016/10/22/blank-sprite-mission-record-06/

In which we get to know something more about both Sergio and Nikki, and I even included a translated snippet from an actual scene of Sergio's badfic of origin!


(Also, re-read that section again after finishing the chapter. Not saying more here, it would be spoilers)

A bit on the archaic side, but if they adapted lyrics originally composed by Leaonardo da Vinci it's a given.

I just got Civ VI, and so far, I'm OK with it. The district system takes not too long to get used to, but those early Let's Plays I've seen somehow managed to avoid the scourge of any developing civ: Barbarians! (Also, it's clear that I need a better computer. The game runs ok on my system, but I'm stuck with either static leaders or animated leaders with graphics looking more at home in Windows 98. :( )

But enough about the game. Let's talk music. More specifically, lyrics. The Civ VI main song is "Sogno di Volare" (Dream of Flying). The lyrics are in Italian and can be found here: https://youtu.be/WQYN2P3E06s

Sergio, since you speak Italian: are the lyrics good Italian? The music itself is beautiful, but knowing game composers, they can sometimes flub up the grammar when working with languages other than English.

Since this is a family-friendly forum, I shall decline to make it. =]

It does loads of different cocktails and shots that are named after Lord of the Rings characters and is probably the only place in the world where you can say "Can I have an Elrond please?" without getting loads of weird looks.

I did once try to condense the lists (the ones that existed at the time, which were plenty) down into a categorized, redundancy-free version. I got burned out on that pretty quickly, let me tell you, but you can have the progress I did make as a starting-point, if you like. I still have the Notepad file.

~Neshomeh

But I only think about it when I twirl the edges while thinking, or (obviously) I'm discussing moustaches.

Being agender is having no moustache for me. I don't care how people address me then because it's then that I don't really give a flying fig. And thankfully, that seems to be my default state; it's nice not to have to worry about it.

But then there are times when I have a moustache and I like how it looks, and times when the moustache is itchy and stuck on with superglue and it drives me nuts.

If that makes sense?

The moustache got into my brain. "I'm writing about gender... and I'm thinking about a moustache. I'm making an analogy, and I have a moustache."

pls send hlp

hS & the imaginary moustache

And I wouldn't describe what 'my gender' feels like - it's not something I consider terribly important.

There's a moment in (UK, original) Top Gear where they discuss the downside of having a moustache, which is: how could you think of anything else? "I'm going to the shop, and I have a moustache... I'm driving my car, and I have a moustache..." But gender... isn't a moustache, to me (has anyone ever said that sentence before? ^_^).

So I guess my follow-up question is: if the English language had a fully-functioning genderless mode, such that 'young person' was a way someone might address you, would you be annoyed by that in the same way you're annoyed by the gendered version? If gender is a partial moustache for you (ie, you're aware of it - whatever 'it' may be), how would you feel about it being...

... uh...

... shaved?

I think my simile got away from me.

hS

It's language-dependent. You wouldn't be able to pull off that trick in, say, Hebrew, or Latin, or Spanish, or (ancient) Greek.