Saturday, 7 July 2007

O RLY?

Saturday, 7 July 2007 17:59
pne: A picture of a plush toy, halfway between a duck and a platypus, with a green body and a yellow bill and feet. (Default)

I went and made some O RLY versions of a couple of my userpics, in Maltese (well... kind of) and Greek.

Not cutting since they're not that big, but if that causes problems, let me know and I'll add one anyway.

  O RLY? YA RLY! NO WAI!
Maltese GĦURIELI? JAGĦRIELI! NGĦUWEJ!
Greek ΑΛΙΤΗΙΑ ΛΑΙΣ; ΜΑ ΒΕΒΕΑ! ΜΕ ΔΟΥΛΑΙΒΟΙΣ!

I actually rather like the "jagħrieli" one -- it looks almost as if it could be a real verb form (j- prefix for third person imperfective, and -ieli perhaps from an -a ending + -li "for me") of some nonexistent verb *għara or the like.

Amy's language

Saturday, 7 July 2007 19:45
pne: A picture of a plush toy, halfway between a duck and a platypus, with a green body and a yellow bill and feet. (Default)

Amy's started using more English to me in the past week -- I wonder whether this is because I've been home more often now that the project in Wolfsburg is over (either because she hears he more often or because she's forgiven me for my absentee-Dad-ism).

I was sometimes a bit sad that for quite a while, she spoke more German to me than before, especially when she used German colour words -- since she had learned those in English first, so I know she knew them and for a while they were the only colour words she knew at all.

Stella wondered whether Amy was trying to learn one language properly -- and it's true that her sentence structure has become more complex and she's started using prepositions.

Still no copula, though -- she'd fit in well with languages such as Russian or Arabic :) For example, "Ich eine Prinzess!" (the last word being a hybrid of German "Prinzessin" and English "princess"), or "Alle Kinder müde!" (with "Alle Kinder", literally "all the children", being Amy-ish for "everyone").

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