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What are you doing right now?

Besides posting on here and replying to this thread. Original credit for this goes back to Fate and Nathan on MX.

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Permalink Reply by Hannah on June 21, 2010 at 2:26pm

I like it too. But I don't have a choice, so like any person who has to suffer, I like inflicting it on others.

~~Dude, Latin helped me tons with grammar. It makes every lamesauce rule of ours make sense.~~

Permalink Reply by nathan_p on June 21, 2010 at 2:39pm

Ouch. I was forced into Spanish and continued with it out of apathy / not wanting to take French. Switching to German, though, because hey, the more languages you know...

(Also, my German accent, though stumbling, is way more on-par than my fumbly gringa Spanish. Can't roll my Rs for shit.)

I mean the really retarded ones, like "never split an infinitive" and that kind of utter bullshit. We speak a hybrid of pretty much every language the English came into contact with -- Old German, Norman French, Indian, multiple Native American languages, some from the Caribbean, some African languages, Arabic...

We do not speak a Romance language, though we've stolen from them. So Latin's tightass rules, in my opinion, can fuck right off from my beautifully screwy language.

Permalink Reply by Hannah on June 21, 2010 at 2:44pm

~~Dude, don't you like waking up knowing that in such a certain circumstance, it will always be so? I find that comforting. That if the world spontaniously combusts, 2+2 will still be 4.~~

Permalink Reply by nathan_p on June 21, 2010 at 2:46pm

English does have rules, yeah. Native ones like "the past tense of 'to run' is 'ran'".

The crazy-bastard ones imported from Latin for no reason other than to make our Heinz 57 Varieties language look like a purebred... yeah, fuck 'em.

I couldn't tell you all the rules of English, but I'm comfortable with their flexibility.

Permalink Reply by Jessie~the~Singer on June 21, 2010 at 2:01pm

Bah, I'm tired. G'night.

By the way, Hannah, whenever I do come over, we need to practice volleyball, because I want to play next year.

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Permalink Reply by Devil's Sunrise on June 21, 2010 at 2:25pm

I'll come.

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Permalink Reply by Hannah on June 21, 2010 at 2:34pm

Yesss... And I have a volleyball not covered in poo so :D.

@DS: Yes, oh hey, you and Jessie must speak on the phone sometime! She doesn't want to give her number out, but I can call you both and the let you two talk with my call-merging capabilities.