highways: [A bright, gold-colored sunrise over a winding road.] (STOCK ☌ on a long and lonesome highway.)
DARTH VADER from the PLANET VULCAN ([personal profile] highways) wrote2010-09-20 10:44 am
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and don't think that i'll always be gone.

I just subscribed to a whole mess o' people. If you're wondering who the fuck [personal profile] 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.

[personal profile] livrebleu 2010-09-20 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
Si pasaste por la búsqueda de intereses, seguro que ya has encontrado [community profile] spanish_solo, que no tiene ninguna actividad. No sé si habrá alguna comunidad más.

I've had things like this happen, too, where I don't make a certain connection, take things too literally, or take too long to reach a fairly evident conclusion. Do you think that's due to limited cognitive resources, or lack of certain knowledge of Spanish? I wonder what this means for jokes and workplay.

[personal profile] livrebleu 2010-09-20 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
Ya te digo. Es una pena, con tanta gente que dice estar apasionada por la lingüística o por los idiomas. Estoy hablando con la administradora de [community profile] en_francais porque todas las comunidades francófonas están mueeeeertas. No obstante, hay una comunidad nueva para el alemán que ha empezado con energía.

A lo mejor al hablar de fanficción se podría lanzar algo en las comunidades.

[personal profile] livrebleu 2010-09-20 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
Re [community profile] en_espanol: si jamás la crees, ayudaré animarla.

[personal profile] livrebleu 2010-09-20 07:10 am (UTC)(link)
¡Qué rápido! Y ¿qué hacemois? Ni idea. ¿Un poco de publicidad? ¿Quizás en [community profile] community_promo?

Acabo de dejar una entrada sobre Twitter en [community profile] en_francais. ¿Quieres que haga algo parecido en español?

[personal profile] livrebleu 2010-09-20 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
¿Le pongo un par de intereses?

Cualquier layout que no sea esa cosa azul/negro me va...
thor: (♥ OBJECTION!!!!)

[personal profile] thor 2010-09-20 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
STOP PRETENDING YOU KNOW THESE THINGS (highway).
Edited 2010-09-20 08:09 (UTC)