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Quotage

“When I get a little money I buy books, and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”
~Desiderius Erasmus

"You lot. You spend all your time thinking about dying, like you're going to get killed by eggs, or beef, or global warming, or asteroids. But you never take time to imagine the impossible. Like maybe you survive."
~Doctor Who

"Nothing in this world that's worth having comes easy."
~Scrubs

"When you can't run, you crawl, and when you can't crawl - you find someone to carry you."
~Firefly

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
~Mark Twain

"Porthos dreams of being a bear, and you want to shatter those dreams by saying he’s just a dog? What a horrible candle-snuffing word. That’s like saying, “He can’t climb that mountain, he’s just a man”, or “That’s not a diamond, it’s just a rock.” Just."
~Finding Neverland

"Sometimes our best decisions are the ones that don’t make any sense at all."
~How I Met Your Mother

Quotage

“When I get a little money I buy books, and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”
~Desiderius Erasmus

"You lot. You spend all your time thinking about dying, like you're going to get killed by eggs, or beef, or global warming, or asteroids. But you never take time to imagine the impossible. Like maybe you survive."
~Doctor Who

"Nothing in this world that's worth having comes easy."
~Scrubs

"When you can't run, you crawl, and when you can't crawl - you find someone to carry you."
~Firefly

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
~Mark Twain

"Porthos dreams of being a bear, and you want to shatter those dreams by saying he’s just a dog? What a horrible candle-snuffing word. That’s like saying, “He can’t climb that mountain, he’s just a man”, or “That’s not a diamond, it’s just a rock.” Just."
~Finding Neverland

"Sometimes our best decisions are the ones that don’t make any sense at all."
~How I Met Your Mother

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legoline

06 February 2005 @ 03:49 pm

[mood|

nostalgic]

When the seas and mountains fall
And we come to end of days
In the dark I hear a call
Calling me there
I will go there
And back again

*sobs*

I WANT MIDDLE-EARTH BACK, DAMMIT!!!

Current Music: Breaking Of The Fellowship - FOTR soundtrack

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One Evil Muffin

legoline.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 05:29 pm (UTC)

And I've adpated Billy's way of pronouncing 'Pippin' - which is actually quite close to what I usually pronounce the 'i' in German O_O

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glorfinniel.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 05:30 pm (UTC)

Haven't done that I'm afraid. but words like 'dreams' and 'thirty' are adapted.

mind you, I do spend most of my time attempting german instead.

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One Evil Muffin

legoline.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 05:38 pm (UTC)

Hmmm didn't you tell me Glaswegian and German wasn't that different in pronunciation ;o)

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glorfinniel.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 05:41 pm (UTC)

Heh, yeah :)

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One Evil Muffin

legoline.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 05:46 pm (UTC)

So... consquently... you're doing two things at the same time! Verrrry cool! :o)

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glorfinniel.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 05:49 pm (UTC)

Yup!

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One Evil Muffin

legoline.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 05:51 pm (UTC)

Clever Goldlöckchen :o)

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glorfinniel.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 05:56 pm (UTC)

No matter how many times I read that, it still makes me smile :)

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One Evil Muffin

legoline.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 06:15 pm (UTC)

It does? Good, good! :o)

I wish I had a Tolkien-related nickname... apart from 'poor Tuck', that is :o)

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glorfinniel.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 06:18 pm (UTC)

Hmmmmm.....we'll have to think of one for you!

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One Evil Muffin

legoline.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 06:26 pm (UTC)

My Elven name is Rine if that helps... bt I want a hobbity one! *lol*

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moonlit-minerva.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 07:01 pm (UTC)

Woot! Rine represent! ;)
(sorry to butt in, I just couldn't help it)

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One Evil Muffin

legoline.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 08:01 pm (UTC)

Naaah just butt in dear Steph! :o) Hehe I remember your nick on the old forum was Rine Evenstar and that's how I figured your name must be Stehanie, too! :o)

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glorfinniel.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 08:15 pm (UTC)

Hmmmmm...*ponders*

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One Evil Muffin

legoline.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 08:27 pm (UTC)

*grins* ... Ach I HATE tenses! (just randomly ;o) )

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glorfinniel.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 08:32 pm (UTC)

THat's quite alright - be as random as ye like :)\

(So do I)

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One Evil Muffin

legoline.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 08:40 pm (UTC)

Hehe thankee ... ;o) ... the Present Perfect/Past thingie drives me insane! :o)

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glorfinniel.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 09:59 pm (UTC)

I'm sorry I couldn't be any help with it! (English tenses are bloody annoying aren't they?)

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One Evil Muffin

legoline.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 10:01 pm (UTC)

Very *nods* It's just too much to learn and the whole Present Perfect thing is driving me nuts! And as cherry on top. Mr Webb will of course also be asking about 'special Uses' you know? *sigh*

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glorfinniel.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 10:04 pm (UTC)

Eeek! Even I haven't been taught them!

However, I have full confidence in you. You speak English brilliantly, and you've been revising for a long time. I wish you luck, but I'm sure you'll do brilliantly without it :)

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One Evil Muffin

legoline.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 10:11 pm (UTC)

Haha not so sure about that! And I just feel I should have revised MORE! I'm so lazy!

Okay now look, this is what I have to remember:

Present Perfect Simple:
focus on completition
focus on event/action rather than duration
repeated action (number of times)
permanent or long-lasting situations
effect&completition
past events with indefinite time adverb

Present Perfect Progressive:
focus on non-completition
focus on duration (action possibly completed)
repeated actions (focus on uninterrupted activity)
change/development (focus on continuation)
effect&duration

Yeah. That could as well be Chinese ... O_O

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glorfinniel.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 10:14 pm (UTC)

I'm afraid Ihave to agree with you there. I don't even know what over half of that means :)

But I meant what I sai, I really did.

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One Evil Muffin

legoline.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 10:16 pm (UTC)

:o) *hugs*

But... the whole Present Perfect... it's only used when an action from the past is leading up to the present or is connected to it somehow, right?

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glorfinniel.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 10:17 pm (UTC)

I'm going to be honest here and jsut say that I don't know. I always get confused with perfect tenses. I'm sorry I can't be more help!

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One Evil Muffin

legoline.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 10:21 pm (UTC)

Nonono it's perfectly fine! You know more about German grammar than I do! :o) It's just that in German, we actually only use the Past Tense in written form...and the Perfect tenses when telling something, it's more colloquial and I'm so used to it that I tend to write everything in Perfect Tense in English, too ... O_o

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