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So, here is why Earlham amuses and myself amuse me.
You would think that, when quite drunk and surrounded with other quite drunk people, one would eventually bring up another person to their room. Often times, it would be a person who´s not the significant other, you know?
I brought home a live CD and install CD for a Linux distro.
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Some background is in order:
Yesterday I went through many classes, and went to Shabbat dinner (which was insane! 35 people and all that jazz.) Had a little bit of wine, came back with Little Sarah to Japan House and found a gathering.
There was drunkenness with a number of people and a number of drinks. I won´t name names because the people fluctuated and most of the new people I met were girls and I never seem to hold onto their names well.
Eventually, we (for some reason) stood around outside EH for two hours (it was about 4-ish by this point) and then we hung out in the 3rd floor lobby (how am I always there?)
The highlights of my night though, was finding out that I always end up speaking Japanese when drunk, and, instead of taking a person back up to my room, I took a new Linux Distro.
(And yes, the Gentoo on my laptop and the Ubuntu that I brought home are slowly glaring at each other. Yes, I am anthropomorphising objects, thank you.)
Adios
September 3 2005, 23:56:14 UTC 6 years ago
When you think, do you tend to have more of a visual experience (ie, thinking of a couch involves "seeing" an image of a couch) or an aural one? (ie, the word "couch")? I've been wondering if the reason that I'm so bad at languages is because I tend to think in words, so that I end up stumbling all over myself when I try to remember vocabulary.
September 4 2005, 16:11:37 UTC 6 years ago
Basically, from what little I know from my Linguistics class, a word´s got two parts: concept and representation. I´m not sure which one I remember first when I see a word (actually, I was thinking about this a couple of days ago. When I see 花, does the reading はな come first or does the general meaning of the character (flower) come first? I couldn´t decide.)
The problem is, you need both to make a word. It´s not so much a matter of knowing the languages representation for couch, as it is linking it to the concept of couch.
As for thought, I´m not really a visual thinker. I think I usually spend a lot more time with ¨aural¨ words in my head. But again, this doesn´t sync up to anything all too well, because, if I use kanji as an example, if I´m thinking things aurally, how can I see 花 and know, aurally, it is はな?
In short, I don´t know, really.
(Interesting fact though...with some words in Japanese, they´re not at all connected to English words, but pretty much directly to the concept. Stuff like すごい、道、道路、家族, I don´t look or hear them and think ¨Ah! Wonderful, road, busier road, family) I just kind of know, automatically, what they mean. I don´t know if this is good or bad. Interesting tangent to the conversation, though.)
September 4 2005, 21:01:43 UTC 6 years ago
Anyhoo yeah, just saying hi. hope you had fun at japan house last night, I got out of there kind of quick.. everyone was gone by 10:30.. craaaaazy earlham
September 4 2005, 21:25:04 UTC 6 years ago
Yeah. It was fun here last night too. It got crazy though...eh.
Craaaaaaaaaazy Earlham indeed.
September 5 2005, 10:02:58 UTC 6 years ago