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Italian - reading more books, slow going though. Need to spend more time watching TV / practicing listening skills, but finding it frustrating when I don't understand.

Finnish - completed a couple of Memrise courses, getting quite a lot of vocab now, just need to spend more time with my textbook to get the grammar, so I can put it all together into sentences.

The Italians are a civilized people. Us Finns are not.

Actualyly, they are nice and predictable. Except when you hear them (I have two CDs of Finnish language), then when they say : tuhattayhdessansataaseitsemänkymmentäkahdeksän.


Then I make a face like

Stand at any road junction in Rome and watch the driving, and especially the (frequent) crashes. Theirs is just a thin layer of civility, I assure you. At least you know what to expect with the Finns.

In some other thread, I posted the cardinal form of 9898, like some one scoring the 9898th in the Boston marathon. It looks like this,

Yhdeksänneksituhannenneksikahdeksanneksisadanneksiyhdeksänneksikymmenenneksikahdeksanneksi.

I just realised something. WP must have been designed around that. It fits just perfectly on one line.

What, you think that's unlikely?

No. You are just so funny.

There are two people in the world in whom I have fallen in love.

(1) Audrey Hepburn.
(2) Sylkat.
(3) You.

Dear crazy crab.

How'd I miss this one?

Tell that to my mother Krabo, she's been drunk for the last thirty five years. English.

I started at the age of 16. Now that I am 61, it means I've been drunk for 45 years. Tell your mother I know what it is like to wake up in the morning without a bottle. She knows it, too.

My mother has no idea what it's like to wake up without a bottle. She has the scotch open by 8am.

I'll have a hard time telling her, I don't speak to her more than once a year.

One word at a time?

She doesn't actually require input. She drones off on a long monologue about her life.

I have actually put the phone on the table, made myself a cup of tea, come back ten minutes later, and she was still talking, not even realising I had gone.

I thought that only happened in films and cartoons.

I wonder if I'll get like that when I'm older (but without the alcohol).