Cyrillicism
Apr. 27th, 2007 12:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rinueAm currently listening to one of my roommates speak loudly, quickly, and passionately in Russian, and have realized that at that speed, I find Russian indistinguishable from gibberish. I could swear she just said "baa baa blah bee ho." I'm starting to suspect that she doesn't speak Russian at all and is just making it up. And by "she" I mean all Russian speakers. Note that the Soviet Union is the only place Esperanto really caught on. Clearly, they are messing with us. Mind you, it might not be Russian at all; it could be Belarusian, or something - I'm just hearing a lot of "da"s. It's kind of slushy.
Have met my third roommate, who, following a trend, is very nice. She's Brazilian, and she's here studying English. As the room's native English speaker, I am regularly peppered with questions like "what do you call the holes in the moon?" which makes me want to write miles and miles of songs and poetry. There's also the occasional game of charades, and requests that I repeat back sentences so that they have the same meaning but use different structures and words. It's wonderful; it's like living in a crossword puzzle where I know all the answers.
I spent probably three hours of my day walking. I was going fairly quickly. I have no idea how much ground I covered (much of it the same ground). My feet are tingling.
Have met my third roommate, who, following a trend, is very nice. She's Brazilian, and she's here studying English. As the room's native English speaker, I am regularly peppered with questions like "what do you call the holes in the moon?" which makes me want to write miles and miles of songs and poetry. There's also the occasional game of charades, and requests that I repeat back sentences so that they have the same meaning but use different structures and words. It's wonderful; it's like living in a crossword puzzle where I know all the answers.
I spent probably three hours of my day walking. I was going fairly quickly. I have no idea how much ground I covered (much of it the same ground). My feet are tingling.
