What Are You Doing Right Now? (215 Viewers)

[Maddy]

never underestimate what you can accomplish by indulging my vanity

fluency: english, norwegian, polish, italian
partial speak/write: dutch, french
mostly read/listen: spanish
exclusively read/listen: swedish, danish, afrikaans, catalan, portuguese, german

reading is easiest, speaking is hardest. therefore it usually goes in this order:
read -> listen -> write -> speak

must be lovely to be blessed with a mind as yours. just the sheer thought of how hard i work to fathom anything.

 

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[Martin]

must be lovely to be blessed with a mind as yours. just the sheer thought of how hard i work to fathom anything.

let's not forget that you're danish, so you're handicapped with that accent and you have to work hard to overcome it.

also, i've been somewhat fanatical about this in the last 3 years or so. spent a lot of effort on italian and then i went to a bunch of related languages to the ones i knew to try and crack the code. and it can be done.

never understood spoken danish in my entire life, then i listened to an audiobook or two, at first it was just noise, and by the end of it i could follow it quite well. because of how wacky danish is i still have to warm up somewhat before i can follow it properly though (and a simple accent variation could easily defeat me).

 

[ALC]

What language is that? My coding knowledge have been negating towards 0.

vba. kinda disappointed it didn't receive a reply from Martin

 

[Martin]

vba. kinda disappointed it didn't receive a reply from Martin

 

[swag]

Here's a first... I'm putting together an offer letter for a CEO.

Any takers?

 

[Martin]

Here's a first... I'm putting together an offer letter for a CEO.

Any takers?

please do apple. and just detonate from the center of gravity

 

[Maddy]

let's not forget that you're danish, so you're handicapped with that accent and you have to work hard to overcome it.

also, i've been somewhat fanatical about this in the last 3 years or so. spent a lot of effort on italian and then i went to a bunch of related languages to the ones i knew to try and crack the code. and it can be done.

never understood spoken danish in my entire life, then i listened to an audiobook or two, at first it was just noise, and by the end of it i could follow it quite well. because of how wacky danish is i still have to warm up somewhat before i can follow it properly though (and a simple accent variation could easily defeat me).

im very proud of my non-danish accent when i speak english. My x-girlfriend (merican) thought i was bristish when i met her.

but yeah, danish is one shitty language. sounds like the disgusting sexual relationship between Holland and Germany -funny enough its the mother of all scandinavian languages. hard as hell to get the grasp of since the only rule is: "is just how it sounds".

still impressive tho. i shud spend less time with the mathematics and more time with dem language.

 

[Martin]

im very proud of my non-danish accent when i speak english. My x-girlfriend (merican) thought i was bristish when i met her.

you see? you're one of the few.

but yeah, danish is one $#@!ty language. sounds like the disgusting sexual relationship between Holland and Germany -funny enough its the mother of all scandinavian languages. hard as hell to get the grasp of since the only rule is: "is just how it sounds".

yeah, that's fascinating. how something so messed up can lay the foundation for new languages that sound much more sane. some people call danish a language without consonants cause it's like one long gradient where nothing ever becomes distinct, just one long syllable is a sentence. still, once you get some of it it can sound kinda cool at times. all languages seem to have this (even german).

still impressive tho. i shud spend less time with the mathematics and more time with dem language.

what do you do with math?

 

[swag]

please do apple. and just detonate from the center of gravity

Apple joke I overheard today:

Q: "How many Apple users does it take to change a light bulb?"
A: "None—when the bulb goes, they just change the house."

 

[Martin]

Apple joke I overheard today:

Q: "How many Apple users does it take to change a light bulb?"
A: "None—when the bulb goes, they just change the house."

kill it with fire
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/apple-now-owns-the-page-turn/

 

[Maddy]

what do you do with math?

well, i try to understand economic decisions and tbh. to earn money.. (understand markets).

 

[Martin]

well, i try to understand economic decisions and tbh. to earn money.. (understand markets).

ah. because there are some economics people who don't use math

 

[Red]

must be lovely to be blessed with a mind as yours.

Would it be worth it, though?

Sure, you'd speak heaps of languages and have awesome fashion sense, but you'd be bored by football.

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Had a curry and a few beers and now struggling to think of anything other than Aberdeen-Celtic tomorrow.

We go top of the league with a win.

 

[Maddy]

Would it be worth it, though?

Sure, you'd speak heaps of languages and have awesome fashion sense, but you'd be bored by football.

ah yes, simple minds, simple pleasures. The worst thing is to be:

 

[swag]

kill it with fire
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/apple-now-owns-the-page-turn/

Clearly, to follow Apple's lead, I need to patent the electronic dump.

 

[Osman]

kill it with fire
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/apple-now-owns-the-page-turn/

LOL, I was reading that, thinking, wtf legit or I am reading a disguised The Onion spoof, then read the bit that goes "(This is where readers are probably checking the URL of this article to make sure it’s The New York Times and not The Onion.)"

 

[Martin]

Would it be worth it, though?

Sure, you'd speak heaps of languages and have awesome fashion sense, but you'd be bored by football.

life is full of impossible choices

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ah yes, simple minds, simple pleasures. The worst thing is to be:

wehey i used to like that song. think i still might.

 

[Osman]

Would it be worth it, though?

Sure, you'd speak heaps of languages and have awesome fashion sense, but you'd be bored by football.

Decade later, and I dont remember Martin ever being anything but bored by football hehe.

 

[Martin]

Decade later, and I dont remember Martin ever being anything but bored by football hehe.

i think the last time i watched a match and i was excited about it was in 2006. was there a world cup that year? i think so. i vaguely remember watching one of those games

 

[Kate]

Sexytime