Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 11:51 amI had thought that too, but apparently some cats will also play fetch, according to what I have read.
My cat will, but he won't bring the toy back. Instead he stares at me, waiting for me to come over and pick it up and throw it again.
Asiporudisha kichezeo kwa kweli, huwezi kuuita mchezo wa kurudisha. Ni kucheza tu, sivyo? If he doesn't actually fetch the toy, you can't call it playing fetch. It's just playing, isn't it?
Nilipokuwa mtoto, tulikuwa na paka aliyependa kucheza mchezo wa kurudisha. Tulikuwa tukitupa mipira midogo ya aluminiamu iliyochakachwa akairudishe. Alipoendelea kukua, alichoka kucheza hivyo, lakini akaendelea kukusanya vitu vyenye kumetameta. Mama yangu alipotewa na pete ya zumaridi. Ilikuwa kishaufu ya pekee ya thamani aliyokuwa nayo. Akaipata kwenye mkusanyiko wa vitu vyenye kumetameta wa paka wetu miaka kadhaa baadaye. When I was a kid, we had a cat that liked playing fetch. We used to throw little balls of scrunched up aluminium for her to bring back. As she got older, she got tired of that game, but she continued collecting shiny things. My mother lost an emerald ring. It was the only piece of jewellery of any value that she had. Then she found it years later in our cat's collection of shiny things.
Glossing Abbreviations: COMP = comparative, C = complementiser, ACS / ICS = accessible / inaccessible, GDV = gerundive, SPEC / NSPC = (non-)specific, A/ₐ = agent, E/ₑ = entity (person or thing)
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うちの猫は、かわいがってほしいだけw
our cat just wants me to pet him lol
お久しぶりね。俺は先延ばし中です
long time no see. i'm procrastinating
俺のニュース〜：去年、学院に入った。言語学の修士になって、来年は卒業するそうです
my news: last year i started grad school, i'm doing a master's degree in linguistics. i will graduate next year.
今は、提出期限が今週の水曜日なの心理言語学の期末試験を書かない。
right now i am not writing my final essay for psycholinguistics. it is due on wednesday
今年は、本当に難しかったです。コロナのせいで、日本に帰れなかった。国境閉鎖なのだ。江戸時代みたい。でも彼氏はあそこに残したのだ。日本に結婚できない。大変だよーーーー
this year has been v hard. japan's border is closed because of corona so i can't go back. like the edo period. but my boyfriend is still over there. we can't get married in jp. it's fckn tough.
Я до сих пор не полностью привык к этой фразе. Человеку моего поколения она кажется всё ещё заметным англицизмом.
I still haven't got fully used to that phrase. To a person of my generation, it still looks like a noticeable anglicism.
(In my youth we would have said "Schön, dass du wieder da bist" or something like that, and that's, of course, still an option.)
Jetzt bin ich richtig neugierig - es ist eindeutig irgendeine kontinentale westgermanische Sprachform, aber welche? Now I'm really curious - it's clearly some continental West Germanic speech variety, but which one?
WeepingElf wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 2:55 pmDat soet iut wui Schwuizerduitsch.
'That looks like Swiss German.'
Welche westgermanische Sprache ist das?
What West Germanic language is that?
Das hängt davon ab, was eine Sprache und was ein Dialekt ist - und wer lange genug auf diesem Forum war, sollte wissen, dass das letztendlich immer eine willkürliche Entscheidung ist.
That depends on what is a language and what is a dialect - and anyone who's been on this forum for long enough should know that ultimately, that's always an arbitrary decision.
Raphael wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 3:56 pmDas hängt davon ab, was eine Sprache und was ein Dialekt ist - und wer lange genug auf diesem Forum war, sollte wissen, dass das letztendlich immer eine willkürliche Entscheidung ist.
That depends on what is a language and what is a dialect - and anyone who's been on this forum for long enough should know that ultimately, that's always an arbitrary decision.
Dann hatte ich gemeint, welche Sprache oder welcher Dialekt ist das? Then I had meant what language or dialect is that?
WeepingElf wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 2:55 pmDat soet iut wui Schwuizerduitsch.
'That looks like Swiss German.'
Welche westgermanische Sprache ist das? What West Germanic language is that?
Dat sull Lippsk Platt suin. Wat muine Greoteldern kürt hebbt. Awer ick bün nit geod dorin.
'That is meant to be Lippe Low German. What my grandparents spoke. But I am not good in it.'
Entschuldigen Sie mich, ich hatte mich nicht daran erinnert, dass du damals gesagt hattest. Sorry, I hadn't remembered that you had said that back then.
