| Answer to a grammar question |
[19 Oct 2009|06:56pm] |
Question: do you say tirer or more tired? considering the approach that tire is a one syllable word and that considerign that it's supposed not to use more before it. thank you for your answer
Answer: Um, no it's more tired. You see, if you say tirer, it wouldn't really make sense; due to the fact that people in older times used to say things more fluently and decently.
So, it is more tired.
Y!A
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| From Mum |
[01 Oct 2009|09:12pm] |
John Smith started the day early having set his alarm clock (MADE IN JAPAN ) for 6 am.
While his coffeepot (MADE IN CHINA ) was perking, he shaved with his electric razor (MADE IN HONG KONG )
He put on a dress shirt (MADE IN SRI LANKA ), designer jeans (MADE IN SINGAPORE ) and tennis shoes (MADE IN KOREA)
After cooking his breakfast in his new electric skillet (MADE IN INDIA )he sat down with his calculator (MADE IN MEXICO ) to see how much he could spend today.
After setting his watch (MADE IN TAIWAN ) to the radio (MADE IN INDIA ) he got in his car (MADE IN GERMANY ) filled it with GAS (from Saudi Arabia ) and continued his search for a good paying AMERICAN JOB.
At the end of yet another discouraging and fruitless day checking his Computer (made in MALAYSIA ), John decided to relax for a while.
He put on his sandals (MADE IN BRAZIL ), poured himself a glass of wine (MADE IN FRANCE ) and turned on his TV (MADE IN INDONESIA ), and then wondered why he can't find a good paying job in AMERICA
AND NOW HE'S HOPING HE CAN GET HELP FROM A PRESIDENT
MADE IN KENYA
Y'all gotta Keep this one circulating, please!
Oh dear, oh dear...
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| I think someone used Babelfish |
[17 Aug 2009|09:31pm] |
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"Kinuko who worked in a ticket shop continued adultery with Kohei. Two people were able to meet only on Tuesday. Kinuko meets Hijiri and Manabe of the friend. Hijiri and Manabe weren't lovers, but lived together. Hijiri contacts Kinuko who caught cold kindly, but Kinuko depends on Kohei. Loneliness increased, and Kinuko wanted to stop adultery slowly. And by the reason of Manabe having had a lover, Hijiri moved in the apartment next to Kinuko." - The Mars Canon.
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[05 Aug 2009|01:12pm] |
You are cordially invited to translate at the translation party: They need to translate the translation!
http://translationparty.com/
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[03 Aug 2009|10:21am] |
When Mum is gone the house is quiet and my stress is low.
When Mum is here the house is noisy and my stress is high.
Purely coincidental, I'm sure.
Also, my lower back still really hurts :(
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| My Mom is Special! |
[27 Jul 2009|07:47pm] |
My Mom is special because She by's me toys and also pets. And play's with me.
I like it when my Mom Let's me play with my friends.
My Mom can do many things! I think she's best as Cooking food
My Mom has a pretty smile! I like to make her smile by Flower in her garden.
My Mom is as pretty as a blue bird in the sky.
My Mom is smart! She even knows How to cook food with out looking.
This is to certify that my Mom is the greatest!
because: she makes me happy as her beatiful garden.
-Katrina, May 15, 1998
(which I then wrote as "5-5-98")
I think I recently learned of apostrophes and I'd be damned if I wasn't going to show that knowledge off!
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[23 Jul 2009|11:51am] |
Why does Jake get a printer when he lives in the same house as Mum to print out cheat sheets and D&D crap but I'm going to have to keep battling with the schools' printers in order to print out my school papers?
AND they want me to set it up for them!
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[15 Jul 2009|02:32pm] |
http://lang-8.com/62899/journals/192339
"Idealically students try to brush their teeth by themselves, followed by assistant teachers' final brushing (a student lies on the floor and a teacher brushes students' teeth) in order to keep teeth clean."
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[15 Jul 2009|11:18am] |
筋
すじ
Muscle, sinew
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[22 Jun 2009|10:03pm] |
Whoohoo, I didn't get any scholarships again this year.
*sigh*
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[05 Jun 2009|10:28pm] |
When I let the rabbit out I stay down with her and watch her constantly because I know she will eat the carpet, the couch, the table, the blankets, and everything else if I don't. If she runs somewhere I can't see her from my current vantage point I move so I can keep an eye on her.
But when Mum lets her out she watches TV or falls asleep on the couch so Maggie will pick at the carpet, chew up the couch, munch through wood, and basically destroy everything we own.
And when she does notice the rabbit doing it does she go up and remove her from the situation? Does she give her something that she can chew on instead? Does she even just put her back in her cage?
No. She'll sit there, watching her, and yelling, "NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO CHEWING! DON'T CHEW THAT! NO!" as if that will do anything.
Because if there's one thing a rabbit understands, it's yelled English.
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[15 May 2009|10:01am] |
So, today I woke up to the lovely sound of Mum screaming at Maggie. At 8 AM.
Obviously not being able to sleep because she won't stop, I rush upstairs to find out what's going on and apparently Maggie got out of her cage. She would have figured this out sooner had she done the responsible thing and checked on her the moment she got up rather than just going straight to the computer. But that's too much to ask.
Now, instead of calmly putting her into her small cage and fixing the play area so she can't get out again, she instead continues to scream and chase her around so that she's frightened out of her mind. Because she obviously wasn't seeing that she was terrorizing her bunny I said to her, "You need to calm down. You're scaring her. It's just going to make her harder to catch."
Her reply?
"I need to scare her!"
Christ.
Later on in the day, I got a phone call from the technician who is going to fix my computer. As I tried to talk on the phone Sky wouldn't stop screaming. Instead of helping me out by quieting her down, Mum instead just added to the whole mess by constantly trying to interrupt me while I'm on the phone to remind me of petty details.
In case you don't know, Sky screams more when she hears Mum and knows she's not talking to her.
No need to wonder why I constantly feel stressed at home!
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[04 May 2009|11:43am] |
Dear my math teacher,
It's a bit hard to learn from your reviews if some of the answers you post to them AREN'T EVEN CORRECT.
argaggshagrargahgagrhgghghrgrrrga
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[29 Apr 2009|09:16pm] |
Math online homework: 100%
Math written homework: 94%
Math quizzes: 65%
fucking quizzessss
I'm so exhausted right now. Driving for nearly two hours and then having to clean the house for another three immediately after was horrid.
My grandmother is rather... anti-America. And afraid of eating anything here, believing it's going to cause her to gain an immense amount of weight instantly and turn her into a fatty.
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[27 Apr 2009|04:44pm] |
Today in Linguistics we were going over different writing systems; and the first one that was touched upon was logographics and the teacher used Chinese as an example of it.
Her information was kind of... distorted, but since the one girl studying Chinese wasn't in class and I don't really know that much I let her have her say.
Then the questions began.
Boy: So... how do they, like, use computers? Or cellphones? I mean, our keyboards have all of our letters on it...
Girl: Yeah. Like, their keyboards would have to be huge
Me: Well, I know for Japanese you type the sound and then hit space and select the character you want, so Chinese probably has a similar method.
Teacher: Oh, okay, so there are Latin letters on the keyboards?
Me: Um, yeah, I think so?
Boy: Wow, that must take forever to type.
Girl: Why don't they just use the Latin alphabet instead? It'd be so much easier!
Another person: I think they just do it because it's tradition. It doesn't make sense otherwise.
Then, after class, a girl who was sitting behind me was talking to the person next to her.
"Asian languages are so hard. You have to learn so much and it's totally not necessary. I mean, I took Japanese for three years in high school and I still wasn't good at it. I mean, if it takes more than three years to be fluent in a language then what's the point?"
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[24 Apr 2009|03:12pm] |
Jake made a list of "things to have when zombies attack!!!!!!" on Facebook.
The list consisted of a Scottish fortress, a flame thrower, massive food supply, a rocket launcher and lots of ammo.
His friend then replied with this:
"Wow, you don't know anything about zombies do you? It's like you got all of your information from video games. Look, Rocket launchers are hard to load and take a lot of practice to fire effectively. Besides that, if zombies were anywhere close to your Scottish Fortress (Not a bad idea in itself) you'd be blowing away your walls as well. Plus, zombies are attracted to noises since that's where humans tend to be, meaning every shot would just bring more walking dead streaming your way. And the flamethrower? Sure, it's nice in certain situations, but if those zombies ever ever get into your castle, you're screwed. The only thing worse than having zombies chase you is having burning zombies chase you. Not only that, but it takes at least a few minutes to reload, time you don't have in a moderate to severe zombie attack. Your gear is cool, but unless you bring along some buddies with supplemental weaponry, you'll just end up getting owned."
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