This title is a bit less creative than the past few, I’ll admit. But hey, it certainly describes the content well!
I’ve noticed myself using French a lot more lately, and not just in French class. It’s happened several times that a French word or phrase will slip into a completely unrelated English conversation. I’ve noticed it happening a lot when I don’t hear what someone says clearly. I’ll say “Quoi?” instead, and it sounds enough like “Wha?” that I didn’t even notice that I was doing it until lately. It makes my sister die laughing whenever it’s her that I ask; she finds it incredibly amusing for some reason.
Not all of it is so similar though, and usually because of that I catch myself just before saying it instead of just after. It even happens in my thoughts (when I was thinking about how I should make a post today, I found myself thinking about the vitesse of my posting instead of the speed. Oops!) at times. Some of it might not even be correct, but I don’t really think about it beforehand, it just ends up substituting itself for whatever english word/phrase I was intending to say.
Honestly it isn’t much of a problem, just a little annoying (mostly because the grammatical stickler within me always reminds be that it just doesn’t work like that, you can’t just stick French words into English whenever you like!). I would like to think that it’s really happening because I’m getting good enough at the language to use it really well – i.e., not having to translate in wy head, being able to just know what something means, just as well as I just know the term in English. I really don’t know, though. =)
In other news, I broke down to the fad and got myself a Twitter account. It’s proved to be extremely addicting – I only made it today and there are already more short but silly posts that you can shake a stick at. I should warn anyone with their mouse over that link that most of them aren’t at all in the same tone as my posts on here are. These are carefully written, refined posts that have a few central ideas in each one that are explained and described in detail. The “tweetings” or “twitterings” or whatever they are supposed to be called are basically anything that comes to mind at the time, and so some are pretty stupid/silly. You have been warned, haha!
As addicting as they may be, Twitter isn’t a substitute for a good blog post. Nothing feels nicer than rambling on for a while about things of moderate importance.
Aureate
