I'm reaaaally tempted to do the "Ach, you're making me blush, I'm so flattered speech....", but let's not and say we did, ja?* Fake humility is grating.
That said, thank you very much. As you've probably guessed by now, I really like writing and admire your way with words, so hearing "eloquent" from you gives the words a great deal more weight.
This was an absolute blast to write. Having them stick the word "inspired" in the question apparently tapped something I've been keeping in my head for a while, and once I'd gotten the rough draft done, I sort of sat back and just gloried in it for a little while. (Then I had to fuss with the margins to get it to all fit on two pages, per scholarship instructions. Kleinigkeiten, oder?**) I have so little Greek and Latin and I desperately want to learn more, but whenever I can pull out linguistic roots and play with them makes things just sort of klick*** in my head. (This, by the way, is what makes German so much fun!)
I felt much better about my grandmother after I wrote this. We don't get along, and she came into my family home just as I was leaving, so we were never really forced by proximity into dealing with each other and getting over our various petty disputes. The above sentiments of sympathy owe a lot to my own mother's endless efforts to just get it into my head about how broken my grandmother is, and how lonely and limited her life has been.
So now I spend a lot of time thinking about duty (even more than usual), and what I can do with myself. I kind of want to write and ya know, make money off of it. And maybe eat, occasionally.
*Right? (Ha! I will subject you to just as many linguistic footnotes as you inflict upon me! Mühähähähähä....)
** English: Trivialities, right? (oder does NOT mean 'smell' in German, but rather 'or'. Stuck at the end of sentence, it means 'right?' or 'don't you think?')
***This only sort of real German word, but it should be spelled like this in English to increase its levels of awesome. Abolish the superfluous letter C! Up with S and K!
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Date: 2008-06-22 08:48 pm (UTC)That said, thank you very much. As you've probably guessed by now, I really like writing and admire your way with words, so hearing "eloquent" from you gives the words a great deal more weight.
This was an absolute blast to write. Having them stick the word "inspired" in the question apparently tapped something I've been keeping in my head for a while, and once I'd gotten the rough draft done, I sort of sat back and just gloried in it for a little while. (Then I had to fuss with the margins to get it to all fit on two pages, per scholarship instructions. Kleinigkeiten, oder?**) I have so little Greek and Latin and I desperately want to learn more, but whenever I can pull out linguistic roots and play with them makes things just sort of klick*** in my head. (This, by the way, is what makes German so much fun!)
I felt much better about my grandmother after I wrote this. We don't get along, and she came into my family home just as I was leaving, so we were never really forced by proximity into dealing with each other and getting over our various petty disputes. The above sentiments of sympathy owe a lot to my own mother's endless efforts to just get it into my head about how broken my grandmother is, and how lonely and limited her life has been.
So now I spend a lot of time thinking about duty (even more than usual), and what I can do with myself. I kind of want to write and ya know, make money off of it. And maybe eat, occasionally.
*Right? (Ha! I will subject you to just as many linguistic footnotes as you inflict upon me! Mühähähähähä....)
** English: Trivialities, right? (oder does NOT mean 'smell' in German, but rather 'or'. Stuck at the end of sentence, it means 'right?' or 'don't you think?')
***This only sort of real German word, but it should be spelled like this in English to increase its levels of awesome. Abolish the superfluous letter C! Up with S and K!