Reply #139: :D ha yeah we're a pretty masochistic breed...

[Runcible Spoon]

try just TRY learning a non-Romance/non-Latinate/non-Germanic language at age 27 when you've been hardwired into a salty little sarcasm machine by almost a decade of post-modern literary theory and its like. Hehehe I could map entire paragraphs of syntax in Arabic better than I could write 2 simple sentences in "mood 3" (something my teacher used to explain the corresponding present tense but with some emotional aspect to it, I DUNNO :crazy:).

I wonder what your anthro PhD friends are up to now. Me, I took a year off after 2 years of PhD post-MA to live in Buenos Aires with my fiance. Castellano Spanish is my new enemy; apparently fieldwork in rural Guatemala might as well have been in Klingon for all the good it did my Spanish speaking in Argentina :rofl: