Chuff blog

Well, it has, again, been forever since I’ve posted here.

Even after I promised you you’d be hearing from me a lot more often.

Sorry.

I didn’t do the NaNoWriMo thing to its completion, but I wrote some awesome stuff in December when I tried it again with short stories.

I’ve been sick since yesterday. I tried out for tennis yesterday, and I’m pretty sure I made the team.

I’ve been reading The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco for the past week or two. I’m on p.316. Before that I read The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers. That one was amazing, and is, to my best estimation, the longest book I’ve read to date.

Languages : Langues : Lingue

As far as language learning goes, I am currently stuck between French and Italian. French is really common and everywhere and I’d love to know it. But I don’t really want to learn how to speak it. At some point the pronunciation in my mind got so botched that I don’t think I can ever get to the point where when I see a new word I can say it right in my head.

Not so with Italian.

But the part of Italian that scares me is the lui/lei thing. Someone described it very ambiguously as “not exactly he or she, but…”, so I don’t really know what it is.

Plus, I have a ton of French books, so I would have no trouble learning.

Just speaking.

Conlangs : Langues construites : Lingue costruite

Then there are conlangs I’d like to learn, but what purpose would they serve? What good would speaking fluent Lingua Franca Nova do? None.

Though that’s not true of Toki Pona, because it could teach me to think simplistically, etc.

Who knows. Chances are I won’t take the language learning thing seriously until a college course.

So right now I’ll just have fun with all these conlangs as well as natlangs.

Goodnight, because I’m sick, and I’ve had it with tissue.