The Sphere
General Garbage => Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits => Topic started by: Faye Valentine on Aug 01, 2007, 06:24:48 PM
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I'm baaaack! did you miss me?
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:pout: Yes.
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Aww Nuri I knew you cared! Let's go on a trip somewhere! the Alps?
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If you're going to Switzerland, I'm coming too. I'd like to go back there.
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Yeah, let's take Sam. I'll need someone to carry my chocolate for me. :)
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Wait...is Faye paying? Cause if so I think she should take us all.
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Faye sighting!! ;D
And Konnichiwa Bitches would be a great band name.
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Yay, Faye is back! I've started a trend.
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Bonjour Comtesse Faye. Accueillez en arrière à la Sphère. :)
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La Comtesse de Monte Cristo. :rawr:
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JESUS CHRIST IT'S A FAYE GET IN THE JEEP!
Welcome back.
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I'm the Goddamn Faye!
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put on your hazmat suits!
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おかえりなさい。
どこに行ったんですか。
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GAH! JAPANASE KANJI....BREAKING MIND...
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I'm thinking of taking a japanese class. I bet the writing part of it is murder.
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Hello there!!!
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yayyy!! some of the people that were gone last time i was here, are back!
some new gossip? did someone got married/pregnant?? nothing new here, i just lost some weight and gained some boobs. i might have to take a 3 month hiatus from work (and no im not going to rehab)
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GAH! JAPANASE KANJI....BREAKING MIND...
I used only 1 Japanese kanji character, actually. Erm. Yeah. Kanji are the usually-more-complicated-looking characters taken from Chinese.
I'm thinking of taking a japanese class. I bet the writing part of it is murder.
Well, if your handwriting sucks to begin with, then probably yes. Well, mine is a bit messy, too, but I can write legibly usually and maybe even neater if I try. If you can handle a pencil, and can memorize writing stuff via writing it over and over like they had you do in kindergarten with English letters, then it's doable. My main point is that it's not murder. Well, I had a head start because I learned how to read/write hiragana and katakana before I ever took a class...
Shit, I wrote 2-3 more paragraphs after this but I deleted it because I felt it was too long-winded. Basically you just have about 40 main characters to learn, called "hiragana," and another set that represents the same sounds but are written a bit differently, called "katakana." All these characters are not as complicated as the Chinese characters ("kanji") and it doesn't take forever to write them. Hiragana/katakana is kind of like our alphabet, and you can use it to phonetically write out every Japanese word and stuff.
But they just don't stop there; they have to use Chinese characters to represent a lot of their words, too, instead of just writing them out phonetically. In Japanese, they don't use spaces between words... kanji kind of makes it easier to read/recognize stuff, then, and also helps differentiate among words that sound exactly the same but have different meanings. When you're done with first Japanese class (like, the first level... Japanese 101 or something) you'll have learned about 50-60 kanji or something... but sadly that's not enough because Japanese speakers know like 1000-2000 kanji... But hey you won't even know all the verbs/nouns/grammar of Japanese yet, just like with other foreign languages.
Hello there!!!
Impressive.
ここには、日本語を知っている人がありますか。いっしょにれんしゅうしましょうか。
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Uhhhh... I just wanna take a stab at it.
"okaerinasai."
Welcome back.
"dokoni-?-tandesuka?"
Where did you go?
"kokoniwa nihongo o -?-teiru(jin?) ga arimasuka? isshoni renshuu shimashouka?"
No effin' clue. Something about Japanese language, unless what I'm missing afterwards changes that, and people? I think there's something about practicing it with others. Dunno.
If your handwriting's so hideous, D, you could trying typing it out. :D
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did someone got married/pregnant?? nothing new here, i just lost some weight and gained some boobs. i might have to take a 3 month hiatus from work (and no im not going to rehab)
Nope. Why the hiatus? As in you need a break or is there a more pressing reason?
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Uhhhh... I just wanna take a stab at it.
"okaerinasai."
Welcome back.
"dokoni-?-tandesuka?"
Where did you go?
"kokoniwa nihongo o -?-teiru(jin?) ga arimasuka? isshoni renshuu shimashouka?"
No effin' clue. Something about Japanese language, unless what I'm missing afterwards changes that, and people? I think there's something about practicing it with others. Dunno.
If your handwriting's so hideous, D, you could trying typing it out. :D
Yeah that's pretty much what I was trying to convey.
"Doko ni ittan desu ka"
is "Where did you go?" but uhmmm... it's using this type of grammar form that adds an "n" after a certain conjugation of the verb. There are a bunch of extra things that this can convey, when used in certain ways... I think I wanted it to mean "Where did you go (because you seem to have been gone for a while and you're making a big deal of it with this post, so it must be interesting)?"
"Koko ni wa nihongo wo shitteiru hito ga arimasuka." (Shit, I just realized that I should have used "imasuka" instead of "arimasuka.")
This means "Are there people who know Japanese here?"
"Issho ni renshuu shimashouka" means uh... "Shall we practice together?" or something like that. I could have also used "renshuu shimasenka" and that probably means a very similar thing but is delivered in a different way... ahhhh.
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Nope. Why the hiatus? As in you need a break or is there a more pressing reason?
I'm getting my work permit and my opt(temp. work permit) ends this thursday, so I have to stop working for at least 90 days while I wait for the damn permit.
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That's kinda retarded. Can't you buy them off with your sacks of gold?
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I need to be bought off too. Surely you can spare the small sack of gold you stole off that Jewish guy you were dating.
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I wish I could. And yes, it's so freaking retarded it makes me nauseous. My boss is trying to talk with the HR dept to see if there's something we can do, but the HR dept in IBM is like talking with Cerberus. O well. Everybody keeps telling me I need vacations, so vacations I'll have haha!
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Are you getting paid time off? That'd be awesome.
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Nope.
Aww Rama remembers my past affairs!
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Faye stole someone's jew gold?
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Yes. :lol:
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And she doesn't share it. >:(
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Darn tootin' she didn't share. That chocolate Hanukkah gelt is yummy! :aroused:
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All Japanese classes this semester are full. Put myself on the waiting list, but what puzzles me is why so many people are taking Japanese rather than other languages, since most majors here don't specify WHAT language you take, just as long as you take one.
The other thing that got me to want to take the class was a Help Wanted ad for a Japanese Resturant.. you had to be fluent in Japanese to work there. :/
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If it was the 80s that would make sense. Everyone assumed the Japanese would be taking over and we'd all be working for them. So knowing Japanese would be a great advantage in the buisness world.
Now that thinking has changed and everyone wants to know Spanish. You know...so they can order their underpaid workers around.
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A few classes wouldn't get you fluency anyway. Did you try to register all late, is that why they're full?
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Yes. :lol:
And he stole my heart :'(
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Bastid! In that case I'm glad you got that fucker's gold.
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Then it's even more appropriate that you give it to me. For I shall blow it on trivial things that I will get tired of and throw away. Thus completing the circle of life by casually discarding the thing he loved, in the same manner that he discarded you. Huzzah!
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That sounds strangely appropriate.
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Then it's even more appropriate that you give it to me. For I shall blow it on trivial things that I will get tired of and throw away. Thus completing the circle of life by casually discarding the thing he loved, in the same manner that he discarded you. Huzzah!
Ok. But you can't spend the money on star wars toys
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Deal.
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Or Star Trek .
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Or Star Trek BSG or Stargate.
Fixed.
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It's still a deal.
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Or Star Trek BSG or Stargate.
Fixed.
Double Fixed.
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:lol: And I was gonna just put BSG. Always go with your gut.
Or Star Trek BSG or Stargate.
Fixed.
Double Fixed.
Triple fixed. You left the second "or".
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And I actually only own the TV show on DVD when it comes to BSG. Only "Stargate" I own is the orginal movie. Both on VHS and DVD.
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That's because it's the only Stargate worth owning. >:(
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ok, none of those, Rama!
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Still a deal. What I'll buy with the Jew gold depends on how much of it there is.
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Not too much. I like shoes.
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I won't be buying shoes. I have one pair that works just fine now.
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Faye are you using a picture of yourself as your avatar?
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I'm going to guess the answer is "yes".
Coincidentally, so am I.
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You're hot.
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And dead.
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Are you suggesting he's a ghost, posting here from the land beyond?
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Tom Snyder's death was an elaborately planned hoax to fool gullible people like you. No man with eyebrows that powerful could be bested by leukemia.
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Are you suggesting he's a ghost, posting here from the land beyond?
We're all dead. Remember.
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Are you suggesting he's a ghost, posting here from the land beyond?
We're all dead. Remember.
Then we all become Zombies and start eating people on Tuesday....
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We're all dead and this is hell.
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I guess that would explain D.
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Indeed.