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highways is, that is me!
Obviously.
Here is a completely boring linguistics related anecdote: last night I was surfing this website about grad schools when an ad in the corner caught my eye. "...El QS World Grad School Tour y las más prestigiosas universidades te ofrecen casi 400.000$ en becas para que cumplas tu sueños académicos." There's really nothing about the ad that's important, except how when I saw it I had a split second of that stupid really? my dreams~? feeling that throwaway characters in television commercials articulate. Since I am a geek, after I closed the window I continued to ponder this, and I finally decided that since I was reading in my second language, I totally took the "your academic dreams" phrasing and in fact the entire guarantee literally for a second, there. It's like I can process Spanish quickly enough to not think really hard about what I'm reading or listening to, but not well enough for a lot of complex judgments and analysis to happen automatically, under the surface. I'm actually dumber in Spanish, is what I'm saying.
I should probably subject you all to my terrible Spanish at some point, before I start forgetting it. Come to think of it, is there a Spanish community on Dreamwidth? Searching by keywords turns up nothing active.
highways is, that is me! Obviously.
Here is a completely boring linguistics related anecdote: last night I was surfing this website about grad schools when an ad in the corner caught my eye. "...El QS World Grad School Tour y las más prestigiosas universidades te ofrecen casi 400.000$ en becas para que cumplas tu sueños académicos." There's really nothing about the ad that's important, except how when I saw it I had a split second of that stupid really? my dreams~? feeling that throwaway characters in television commercials articulate. Since I am a geek, after I closed the window I continued to ponder this, and I finally decided that since I was reading in my second language, I totally took the "your academic dreams" phrasing and in fact the entire guarantee literally for a second, there. It's like I can process Spanish quickly enough to not think really hard about what I'm reading or listening to, but not well enough for a lot of complex judgments and analysis to happen automatically, under the surface. I'm actually dumber in Spanish, is what I'm saying.
I should probably subject you all to my terrible Spanish at some point, before I start forgetting it. Come to think of it, is there a Spanish community on Dreamwidth? Searching by keywords turns up nothing active.
