My cunning plan has a flaw D:
Nov. 13th, 2007 10:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flyboy_foxEight hours on the computer at work, squinting at the screen. Then, back at home and straight back online. Rinse, lather, repeat. ... headache D:
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Anyhow, on a random-ish note... on my break today I (unintentionally) overheard a girl talking on her phone to (I presume) her friend. What language she was speaking in, I'm ashamed to say I have no clue. If I had to guess, I'd say possibly something middle-eastern, but I really couldn't say. However, what caught my interest was how every now and then she'd say something in English, such as "you know what I mean?" or "I can't believe it!" or "yes, I know". Yet it blended in so seamlessly with what she was saying in the other language that at first I thought perhaps she was speaking very fast English and I just wasn't catching the majority of what she was saying. When I established for certain that she wasn't, for the most part, speaking English, I found myself fascinated. I'm not sure why. Just something about the way she was flawlessly mixing English and another language like that seemed really cool. It made me want to be perfectly fluent in two languages so that I can mesh them together like that. I'm not sure why that really stuck with me, but it just seemed awesome. I love language, it's fascinating. :)
Well, bedtime already :P Bah humbug. 'Night!
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Anyhow, on a random-ish note... on my break today I (unintentionally) overheard a girl talking on her phone to (I presume) her friend. What language she was speaking in, I'm ashamed to say I have no clue. If I had to guess, I'd say possibly something middle-eastern, but I really couldn't say. However, what caught my interest was how every now and then she'd say something in English, such as "you know what I mean?" or "I can't believe it!" or "yes, I know". Yet it blended in so seamlessly with what she was saying in the other language that at first I thought perhaps she was speaking very fast English and I just wasn't catching the majority of what she was saying. When I established for certain that she wasn't, for the most part, speaking English, I found myself fascinated. I'm not sure why. Just something about the way she was flawlessly mixing English and another language like that seemed really cool. It made me want to be perfectly fluent in two languages so that I can mesh them together like that. I'm not sure why that really stuck with me, but it just seemed awesome. I love language, it's fascinating. :)
Well, bedtime already :P Bah humbug. 'Night!
