The Good News Thread: I'm So Excited! And I Just Can't Hide It!

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

Arabic is extremely hard sometimes.

[+Extesian he/him]

3 minutes ago, Mestiv said:

Oh please, take a look here, on the versions of a single word "two" in Polish

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That's just like Polish and Czech or Slovak  

Yeah my girlfriend is Czech and her friends are Polish and they understand each other, though the Poles seem to understand the Czechs better than the other way. The Slavic languages fascinate me now after living in Prague for a couple of years! But Lord of Colors I found Czech hard to learn. Too hard in fact. Though I do know dva

[Tristan]

May the 4th be with you all!

[Truthweaver she/her]

My best friend who I haven't seen in two years (she moved across the country) is visiting for a week in two days!! I can't wait  

[Silverblade5 he/him]

2 hours ago, Tristan said:

May the 4th be with you all!

About that... Today, the jazz band was asked to play for an award ceremony.  In return, we asked to play Darth Vader's theme when the principal was introduced. 

[Mestiv he/him]

2 hours ago, Silverblade5 said:

About that... Today, the jazz band was asked to play for an award ceremony.  In return, we asked to play Darth Vader's theme when the principal was introduced. 

This would be equally awesome to play:

 

[Nashan’Elin he/him]

I just got out of my AP Government test, and I'm at the DMV to get my license now! Aside from the whole "wait at the DMV" thing, it's a pretty awesome day. And I got out of school for the test, so that's always fun. 

[Silverblade5 he/him]

2 hours ago, Mestiv said:

This would be equally awesome to play:

 

At the end, when people were leaving and getting refreshments, we closed with the cantina music 

[Djarskublar he/him]

As for the language discussion, I would say that there are languages far harder to learn than Spanish. I took some Spanish in school, and the only hard part about it is remembering how things are gendered. I couldn't talk with anyone, but I can read words off a page, just not understand it.

English is frankly more difficult. I have been edging into Japanese lately so I can watch raw anime, and that is a true nightmare. The spoken language isn't bad at all, but the writing is, well, ridiculous. They have a phonetic set of characters, Hirogana. They have their standard character set, Kanji. And then they have a bunch of special characters for foreign words, Katakana. Each individual kanji character can have anywhere from 1 to 10+ meanings, and you have to context clue into which one is right. They sometimes have a character, and then clarify which meaning to read with Hirogana. It's really nasty. On the other hand, you only need to know a couple thousand characters, so it is doable.

@Silverblade5, that' awesome. I wish I had more say in what music I played during school.

I saw Def Leppard a couple years ago, and that was pretty great. It was a fairly big concert tho, so no chance of talking after. They play really well though. It was almost album quality across the board.

[StrikerEZ he/him]

I'm so excited! I just had my officer speech today, and it went really well. I'm so happy! I won't know for awhile whether I made officer or not, but I feel like my chances are pretty good.

[A Budgie she/her]

@Djarskublar I've heard about the difficulty of Japanese...some of my friends do it and they complain about it.

[Jondesu he/him]

Japanese is tough, but it's far simpler than Chinese, which doesn't even have a native alphabet. I know some Japanese, and yeah, I'll never learn most of the kanji probably, but it's actually simpler than some of the other Asian languages by quite a bit.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

Its just a stupid pun y'all

Can't argue with me on this, I have the high ground.

[Mestiv he/him]

3 hours ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

Its just a stupid pun y'all

Can't argue with me on this, I have the high ground.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

here's a thing my friend made yesterday to commemorate obi

Roses are red
Obi's on a mound
You're finished anakin
I have the high ground

[Modal Seoul he/him]

I' m going to my school prom with my crush.............. I feel electrified.

[Mestiv he/him]

21 minutes ago, Captains Domon said:

I' m going to my school prom with my crush.............. I feel electrified.

Congratulations and have fun! ^^

[Oversleep]

8 hours ago, Mestiv said:

Answer is obvious.

[Jondesu he/him]

I'm gonna have a new nephew in November-ish. That's in addition to a niece within a couple weeks and my own son in July (kids in my extended family always seem to arrive in sets of three).

[Silverblade5 he/him]

24 minutes ago, Jondesu said:

I'm gonna have a new nephew in November-ish. That's in addition to a niece within a couple weeks and my own son in July (kids in my extended family always seem to arrive in sets of three).

Jondensu Illuminati confirmed

[StrikerEZ he/him]

Oh my gosh, I just saw Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. It was AWESOME!

Without spoilering, I'm gonna say that I think it was way better than the original in almost every way, and I think this was the first Marvel movie where I almost cried. My only complaint is that I felt like most of the main characters kind of had some plot armor, but oh well.

[A Budgie she/her]

32 minutes ago, StrikerEZ said:

Oh my gosh, I just saw Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. It was AWESOME!

Without spoilering, I'm gonna say that I think it was way better than the original in almost every way, and I think this was the first Marvel movie where I almost cried. My only complaint is that I felt like most of the main characters kind of had some plot armor, but oh well.

I want to see it...

[Modal Seoul he/him]

On 5/5/2017 at 5:30 AM, Captains Domon said:

I' m going to my school prom with my crush.............. I feel electrified.

Well, here we go. My date starts in a couple of hours. Wish me luck.

[Hemalurgic Headshot he/him]

3 minutes ago, Captains Domon said:

Well, here we go. My date starts in a couple of hours. Wish me luck.

You can do it! Have the luck of Mat Cauthon.

[Steeldancer he/him]

17 hours ago, StrikerEZ said:

Oh my gosh, I just saw Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. It was AWESOME!

Without spoilering, I'm gonna say that I think it was way better than the original in almost every way, and I think this was the first Marvel movie where I almost cried. My only complaint is that I felt like most of the main characters kind of had some plot armor, but oh well.

Going to see it tonight

 

7 hours ago, Captains Domon said:

Well, here we go. My date starts in a couple of hours. Wish me luck.

Always make sure you're tapping those chromium minds