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Jul. 8th, 2022 11:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynI've been taking Italian refreshers on Duolingo for a few years now, and I"m getting close to the end of the course. I studied Italian in high school so I had most of the fundamentals in the depths of my skull somewhere, I mostly needed them revived. Eventually I'll get to practice with someone living instead of the machine- that's the real test.
But for now I've also started in on trying to learn Greek, because I lived in a really Greek neighborhood in New York for the first eleven years of my life and also because I took Greek for two semesters to fulfill a foreign language requirement at college. (It was ancient Greek. The professor was a maritime archaeologist.) And I've also started trying to learn Klingon, because Duolingo has a course in that and because I want to be able to swear at politicians. (Normally I'd say Dutch is ideal for that, because of their disease profanity thing, but I don't think Duolingo is going to teach me how to pronounce Krijg nou de pokke! or stomme kankerbitch!.)
I've gotten sufficiently tired of the fact that formal English uses the same goddamn pronoun for second person singular and second person plural that I've given up on writing "you (plural)" in my practice translations and instead am now rendering Klingon sentences like be'nI'wI' tlhIH! as "Y'all are my sisters!".
But for now I've also started in on trying to learn Greek, because I lived in a really Greek neighborhood in New York for the first eleven years of my life and also because I took Greek for two semesters to fulfill a foreign language requirement at college. (It was ancient Greek. The professor was a maritime archaeologist.) And I've also started trying to learn Klingon, because Duolingo has a course in that and because I want to be able to swear at politicians. (Normally I'd say Dutch is ideal for that, because of their disease profanity thing, but I don't think Duolingo is going to teach me how to pronounce Krijg nou de pokke! or stomme kankerbitch!.)
I've gotten sufficiently tired of the fact that formal English uses the same goddamn pronoun for second person singular and second person plural that I've given up on writing "you (plural)" in my practice translations and instead am now rendering Klingon sentences like be'nI'wI' tlhIH! as "Y'all are my sisters!".
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Date: 2022-08-20 12:00 am (UTC)Thank you for introducing me to Dutch disease profanity. I especially like "everything went to tuberculosis".
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Date: 2022-08-20 02:58 pm (UTC)