Better yet! 8 unit APARTMENT COURT!!!
Jayne: There's times I think you don't take me seriously. I think that ought to change. Mal: Do you think it's likely to?
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
msbelle - Mar 25, 2016 4:54:08 pm PDT #18329 of 30003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Hil R. - Mar 25, 2016 4:56:42 pm PDT #18330 of 30003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
OK, so I know that when I learn a new language, I have to get my brain to recognize some new sounds. But Hindi has eight different letters that make D or T sounds, and I can't hear the difference between most of them. Which has mostly been OK so far, but I'm learning numbers now, and "seven" and "sixty" are both "saat," with different T sounds at the end. And I've listened to them a whole bunch of times and just cannot hear the difference.
sarameg - Mar 25, 2016 5:02:44 pm PDT #18331 of 30003
Pretty!
I had 6 hrs of meetings/interviews today. And about the same of work that needed to get done. I will be logging some work hrs this wkend. Fuck me. But the two candidates we interviewed today brought gold. #1 from yesterday still is in and vying for top pick, but these two...we now have our top three. Of course all are exceedingly pricey to fly in, so we may have to skype interview them all if HR won't play.
And prepping my house for plumbing demo. Which means cleaning out 2 closets and my mantle
Oh and the name thing reminds me I need to bring that up in a fight we're about to get into at work ( as in, need to add that field.) Which was one of the meetings.Archive was the guinea pig/forerunner/theresawordforthisIamforgetting for the concept of a single sign on ala Google for the Institute. Next big portion is coming on and they want to change the whole brand. Fuck no. You don't do that to the community of users. Where the fuck were you 3 years ago? You adapt to make it seamless to the users, you don't make them jump through more hoops. Especially not a year after you did the first leap.
I kinda hate everything, if you haven't noticed.
Steph L. - Mar 25, 2016 5:04:36 pm PDT #18332 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I had never heard of Igigi and they had the PERFECT dress:
Oooh, I like that one! Yay!
dcp - Mar 25, 2016 5:08:07 pm PDT #18333 of 30003
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
"seven" and "sixty" are both "saat," with different T sounds at the end.
Listen for the long aa in saat (7), the aspiration at the end of saatH (60), and the r at the end of sat-tar" (70)
msbelle - Mar 25, 2016 5:13:39 pm PDT #18334 of 30003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Hil R. - Mar 25, 2016 5:14:14 pm PDT #18335 of 30003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Listen for the long aa in saat (7), the aspiration at the end of saatH (60), and the r at the end of sat-tar" (70)
I can hear the difference in 70 easily, but I've just been listening to recordings of people saying 7 and 60 for about 10 minutes, and I'm still doing no better than chance when I play one randomly and try to figure out which one they're saying. I can hear the aspiration when I listen to them one after the other, but not when I just hear one.
And I just looked at the words for the rest of the numbers, and wow, it would be a pain to teach place value in Hindi.
dcp - Mar 25, 2016 5:18:06 pm PDT #18336 of 30003
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Worse than French?
Hil R. - Mar 25, 2016 5:24:55 pm PDT #18337 of 30003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Worse than French?
Much worse. In French, it follows the pattern that the word for 48 is the word for 40 followed by the word for 8. 70, 80, and 90 are weird, but still, if you know the word for 80, then you can follow the pattern to get the word for 87. So it's obvious that "forty-eight" or "quarante-huit" is 40+8. Hindi doesn't have that pattern, and the patterns that it does have aren't quite regular enough to be able to use the words to stress that point.
-t - Mar 25, 2016 5:24:56 pm PDT #18338 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
wow, it would be a pain to teach place value in Hindi.
Really? How very interesting. I am terrible with languages, but researching just that one small aspect is intriguing.