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Stephen Hawking (OMG, you have absolutely NO IDEA how difficult it is for my mum to pronounce his last name *shudders*) appeared on a German talk show on Monday. That was only his second TV interview ever so that was kinda cool.
Yesterday, mum, bro and I had lunch at a Chinese restaurant (BTW, the music in there sounded as though it had ben composed on a SNES, no kidding O_O). And when I told mum about that interview I mentioned that the English to German translator had had such an easy job during that interview as he could just read the stuff that was written on Hawking's speech computer. And I also told her that instead of listening to the translator (stupid f...ing German) I read the stuff on the computer as well.
Mum said "Ah, so you could translate that for yourself?"
Er... no.
It's really funny to explain that to someone who has never learned any foreign language. Anyway, I told her that I no longer have to take that "German detour", in other words: If I read something in English, I understand it immediately, without having to use my mother tongue first. And I don't really get why she looked that surprised. Okay, maybe I do: Maybe it was because she still thinks that everybody except her is stupid >:O
That actually reminded me of a classmate I had back at high school. He was in the same advanced English class and one day, he explained why it always took him quite a long time to answer a question in English. I think the stuff he said went somewhat like "First, I have to translate the question to German in my head, then I have to think up an answer in German and finally translate that back into English."
Well... I guess that was one of the candidates who did NOT really belong into that class, eh?
And then, did you know that modern physics includes theories about eleven dimensions? Holy shit, I'm already having problems with just three or even four of 'em ^_^;;;
€dit: OMG, I still need to get #JDCollector's three latest releases. That's three files at about 450 MB each. Poor, slow, old DSL line *pets*
Yesterday, mum, bro and I had lunch at a Chinese restaurant (BTW, the music in there sounded as though it had ben composed on a SNES, no kidding O_O). And when I told mum about that interview I mentioned that the English to German translator had had such an easy job during that interview as he could just read the stuff that was written on Hawking's speech computer. And I also told her that instead of listening to the translator (stupid f...ing German) I read the stuff on the computer as well.
Mum said "Ah, so you could translate that for yourself?"
Er... no.
It's really funny to explain that to someone who has never learned any foreign language. Anyway, I told her that I no longer have to take that "German detour", in other words: If I read something in English, I understand it immediately, without having to use my mother tongue first. And I don't really get why she looked that surprised. Okay, maybe I do: Maybe it was because she still thinks that everybody except her is stupid >:O
That actually reminded me of a classmate I had back at high school. He was in the same advanced English class and one day, he explained why it always took him quite a long time to answer a question in English. I think the stuff he said went somewhat like "First, I have to translate the question to German in my head, then I have to think up an answer in German and finally translate that back into English."
Well... I guess that was one of the candidates who did NOT really belong into that class, eh?
And then, did you know that modern physics includes theories about eleven dimensions? Holy shit, I'm already having problems with just three or even four of 'em ^_^;;;
€dit: OMG, I still need to get #JDCollector's three latest releases. That's three files at about 450 MB each. Poor, slow, old DSL line *pets*
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