My fall semester is finally over.
I took my Greek test today, and it didn’t go well. But it went. And it’s my last final exam. I … am… DONE!
I get a response (I hope!!) on the job application by March 9th…. I’m really hoping for good news… but it’s a lot of people applying for just a few spots. Im still crossing my fingers. And toes. And eyes and everything :P
So Harvard. Im still not used to it. It’ll take a good long time before Im comfortable here… it was the same with SMU. I guess it always does take me a while to nestle in… and yet I have to admit I still love it. It’s nice being in such a completely different place. Everybody is someone new, everywhere I go is some road to get lost on, everything I eat tastes different… and even the campus is big enough to give me a good surprise once in a while.
Compre un pollo hoy. Uno completo. Claro que la idea no funciono! En lo que regrese del mercado me di cuenta de que no se como cortar un pollo. Asi que tengo un pollillo todo mochao en mi refrigerador. A ver si luego funciona … jiji…
He decidido no sufrir demasiado por las calificaciones. Quiero concentrarme en aprender. Learn, and grades will come automatically. O al menos eso espero! Jiji… pero si. Quiero disfrutarlo. I have made up my mind.
Classes: Greek. Multicultural Counseling. Religion, Secularism, and Common Morality. And finally, the Theories class we all have to take for the MDiv program. Im also sitting in a class, a seminar on Thessalonians. Ought to be fun… if the professor lets me in :P
So… el pronostico? Frio y nublao y medio solitario. Pero a fin de cuentas lindo y ligeramente aventurero… ya veremos.
5 comentarios:
If he'd met Cantor he would have :D Hm... "To infinitive and beyond!" Doesn't have the same ring to it. Why do they call it the infitinitive form?
If a mime falls in a forrest does he make a sound? Would he if he was pondering the infinite, the uncountable, the real, the rational, and the transcendental (numbers... muajajaja... pi over two, baby)?
LOL!
nope... it just doesn't have the same comical effect :P Though I guess Cantor would argue he defeated the point of the joke :D
Yes, if he falls, he makes a sound.
I don't know, however, if brain processes' waves are strong enough to produce sound... we'd have to ask Raoul!
Miss you.
The joke on the split infinitive is that Greek, like Latin, does not use a prepositional marker ( English marks an infinitive by adding the preposition “to” to the verb, while many other languages, including Latin and most if not all romantic languages, simply make the infinitive into a new form). Paul, therefore, could not split infinitives because the infinitive is only one word.
By the way, splitting the infinitive is perfectly acceptable in the English language… and ending a sentence in a preposition is too. Doing either does not account for poor grammar. The rule is an archaic technicality… it’s rooted in the kind of conservatism that forgets that Fowler and the Oxford Dictionary withdrew its ban on the practice… hm… decades and years ago, respectively. :P !! The ban on split infinitives (now existent only in popular imagination) was imposed by a Henry something guy, a dean of Canterbury, who wrote a grammar book called “A Plea for the Queen’s English” in 1860 something. LoL. Trust the concept, not my memory :P. He was trying to “civilize” both Shakespeare and Milton, neither of which could be civilized any further in terms of language (they most definitely could have been in many other ways!). And he wanted to do so by Latinizing the English language, which is.. essentially Germanic! Any way... that’s the end of it: the ban is but a Latinism.. and it wouldn’t even work in Latin :P
SooOoooo.... The infinitive... To rightfully write an infinitive takes little more than personal preference. It is ok to. LOL. Though I think I normally don’t do it...
Ok... An infinitive is called so because it is not finite. It is not limited by a subject, and thus, unlike other verbs, it is also not fully inflected by tense, number, mood... etc. At least in English. In Greek it is still heavily inflected. But much like infinite numbers, it is a verb form that requires special rules and forms a completely different type of sentences and phrases....
...aaand Im done bc Quijote is here already :P
So if the infinitive is a verb that is not affected by a subject, could we say that it is "uncountable" as there is no subject to determine its form such as singular (yo se) and plural (nosotros sabemos). :D Is it still countable in Greek? muajajajajaja....
Yup!! that's right!!!!
It is UNCOUNTABLE! And it is uncountable also in Greek! Not inflected by the subject's number :D!
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