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hmpf ([personal profile] hmpf) wrote2008-02-17 06:24 pm
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Missed an important anniversary

2008 is, as I noted earlier, the year I turn ten in fandom. I just noticed that 2007 also was the year of an important anniversary for me. Sometime in the latter part of that year I should have celebrated the 20th anniversary of my first acquaintance with another great love of my life: 1987 was the year I began to learn English. Heh.

(ETA: It was not, however, the year I fell in *love* with English. That happened later - around 1993, I think.)

[identity profile] amonitrate.livejournal.com 2008-02-17 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
out of curiosity from one who's never been able to learn a language other than English - what made you fall in love with it? I'm intrigued.

[identity profile] jazzymegster.livejournal.com 2008-02-17 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy anniversaries :)

[identity profile] nick-101.livejournal.com 2008-02-17 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Fandom's a pretty good thing. Happy anniversaries.
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Is gobsmacked

[identity profile] mikes-grrl.livejournal.com 2008-02-18 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
Just because I can sound like an ignorant American, allow me:
English isn't your native language? Holy hell. You sure have a fabulous grasp of it.

I've known a number of 'forgieners' (from Orlando, FL, we get a lot of travelers) and usually even people who have been in country for years still have that linguistic twitch or two left over from their native tongue that makes them toss adjectives around or put verbs in 'strange' places. I know writing is different than speaking, of course, but still, had you not posted this I would never have suspected.

And I think it is interesting that part of your love of the language stems from the breadth of words in it. I do not speak any other languages, so not like I can compare, but I do LOVE the ability to say something such as "she walked into the room" in about 4,000 different ways. <3

So, congrats on the anniveraries! I admire your language skills. (I keep meaning to learn Spanish -- helpful in these parts -- but...)