Sixth Post!

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"The thing about illegally breeding fire-breathing possums is that you gotta keep a bucket of water handy."

*Those fools! Fire-breathing possums are greasy; water will only feed the flames! Oh, if only I could tell them of my empire...*

(Context: https://secretfanspace.dreamwidth.org/1839.html?thread=2678831#cmt2678831)

Talk fandom! Making things! Reading, writing, drawing, whatever! Miscellaneous life chatter! Meme's happy to see you again!

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Re: How's Life?

[(Anonymous)]

SA

But, hey, I have a friend whose family is apparently descended from German peasants, and who finds German easier than French. So I mean what can I do in the face of such overwhelming evidence OTHER than say that I must be directly descended from William the Conqueror.

Re: How's Life?

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, if you’re baffled by all the Germanic bits of British culture, it’s that or parallel universes.

It’s actually one of my big frustrations with the Duolingo German course, that it often forces a translation into American English which seems to parallel the German much less closely. And I want to translate ‘rucksack’ as ‘rucksack’!

Re: How's Life?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yeah, that annoys me with all sorts of stuff that makes its way to the UK by way of the USA...

But yeah, it's not like I've made an itemised list but the Germanic stuff feels a lot more foreign to me than the French stuff. xD As in, I have consciously thought before 'oh this is one of those Germanic British things I don't get', whereas I don't think that's ever happened with French stuff. Now that I think about it, I did grow up eating a baguette each weekend, and as a toddler I wore a beret. Some of my earliest memories are of debearding mussels for moules mariniere. Makes you think.