and don't think that i'll always be gone.

[highways]

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

Comments

[thor]

Are you trying to say you're not dumb all the time?

[livrebleu]

Si pasaste por la búsqueda de intereses, seguro que ya has encontrado 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.