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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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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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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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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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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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glorfinniel.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 10:22 pm (UTC)

You see, I'm just confused as to what the perfect ense is. I just mentioned this on a comment I left for you actually.

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legoline.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 10:27 pm (UTC)

Yes I saw that ... I already wrote a comment to it! *lol* :o)

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glorfinniel.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 10:30 pm (UTC)

Apologies with this. I'd better get to bed, but I hope you get the help you are looking for!!

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legoline.livejournal.com on February 6th, 2005 10:33 pm (UTC)

Apologies? What for? MY apologies for being such an annoying brat! :o) Nighty night!!! (And you HAVE been help to me!)

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glorfinniel.livejournal.com on February 7th, 2005 05:14 pm (UTC)

I'm glad to hear it :)

And you're not a brat :)

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legoline.livejournal.com on February 7th, 2005 07:44 pm (UTC)

Hehe thank you ! :o) *hugs* Btw... has my letter arrived yet? I hope the post didn't lose it!

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glorfinniel.livejournal.com on February 7th, 2005 07:50 pm (UTC)

Immeant to mention actually....

I got it tonight when I came home. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the bits in German :) Thank you!

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legoline.livejournal.com on February 7th, 2005 07:56 pm (UTC)

Haha! Sorry it was a bit crappy... I tend to just write random things down, especially while watching a film! *lol*

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glorfinniel.livejournal.com on February 7th, 2005 08:55 pm (UTC)

It wasn't crappy at all! I love it :)

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legoline.livejournal.com on February 7th, 2005 10:02 pm (UTC)

Oh you do? *beams* :o)

I just showed Conny the T-Shirt your mum did for me ... I'm going to wear it tomorrow as a good luck charm! :o)

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glorfinniel.livejournal.com on February 8th, 2005 05:18 pm (UTC)

You've probably taken it by now, but I hope you got my email and I hope it went alright :)

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