Darfuria

Well, I just got a new keyboard, so here is a perfect oppertunity to test how fast I can type on it.

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When you think of something in your mind, do you think of it in a language? I mean, when you hear a thought in your head, is it in a certain language? Or is it just a thought, and a language is applied to it later? What I’m trying to get at is, when I think of something, obviously I get the thought in my head. Now, I can think about that thought and comprehend it into words, which are in English. I can’t really speak any other languages, so I was just thinking and wondering if people who spoke other languages ‘thought’ in different languages.

For example: If I thought “I want a cup of tea”. would a Spanish person think “Quiero una taza de té” (excuse the poor translation).

I find it really hard to understand how someone would think of something in a language that isn’t English, and be able to comprehend that. I guess that’s because I don’t really speak any other languages though. Is it confusing when you know more than one language? Can you think in more than one language? So could you think “I want a cup of tea” or “Quiero una taza de té” if you knew Spanish?

Something that I thought that was quite weird, really. What are your thoughts?

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Conclusion: Mmm, this keyboard is so nice. No typos, and I typed that in just over 3 minutes (including the time it took me to search for the translation of “I want a cup of tea).

Yeah, I’ve gone and changed my template again. You might notice that the font styles and colours will change through my older posts simply because of the way I posted then, and the way I do now. However, it matters not.

I’ve decided I really like these two blue colours on pages. I put them on my MySpace page first, and liked them, so I thought I’d use them here too. I’ll change this template (when I’ve learned enough CSS to be able to make my own templates for things like this) to be square, like my MySpace profile.

Obviously I’m not completely happy with this template at the moment because there are only two collums, and I need three. Hopefully another (and perhaps final) update to come.

I’m also planning to change my website over the next few days to incorporate this colour style, and generally update the content with some new-learned stuff.

I’m so glad I’m learning some stuff I never thought I’d be able to learn at Cosmic, I hope it continues to be like this or gets better.

New keyboard should be delivered tomorrow, so I might type a nice long post to test it out ;)

Hello??????????????????????????????? Are you there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????….!?!?!?!?!?!!??!?!?!?!?!?!

OH GO BURN SOMEWHERE, WILL YOU!

Yeah, that’s right. You idiots (or should I say idiot’s) who find it necessary to use punctuation to the absolute worst have finally made me write about you. Why… OH WHY!? I mean, most of you typ lyk dis 2 try nd sav tym nd den u go nd use lotz ov lyk ? and ! marks!?!?!?!?!

Seriously, when people use more than one question mark, exclamation mark, or more than three fullstops, they should be beaten with something long and soggy. How many questions did you ask? Oh, by the amount of question marks you used I thought you asked A HUNDRED AND FOURTY TWO THOUSAND NINE HUNDREND AND EIGHTY FOUR! Seriously, I thought I was trippin’. I thought you were writing in some magical invisible coloured font that I couldn’t read, it was begining to scare me.

If you’re going to type in short hand then don’t waste your time by using excessive amounts of punctuation. Stop frustrating me to the point where I want to make a giant statue of a hyphon and beat you around the knees with it. Just don’t use any if you can’t understand how to use it properly.

If you don’t know what it does, don’t use it! You’d look far less stupid if you left the apostrophe out than putting it in the wrong place. Amusingly, whenever I criticise peoples’ use of punctuation and grammar in somewhere like a pub (18’s for example) then people will say:
“Common people come here, Danny. They don’t care about things like apostrophes.” Yeah!? Well I’m not common, and I’m here, so correct the god damn notice, now! Honestly, just because they’re common, doesn’t mean I should have to put up with their stupidity.

Ok, I admit my spelling, grammar and everything else isn’t 100% perfect, but then nobody is 100% perfect, and I’m only 17.

I know! I’m going to make myself look intelligent by using apostrophe’s. Oh look, I look like a dumbass already.

Seriously, don’t bother.

Just wanted to make a general update, so I thought I’d post it here.

The need for a camera is ever increasing. I keep seeing things that I want to take pictures of. I think my mind is becoming more creative and subconciously plans ahead a lot more than it used to.

For example - I wanted to take a picture of this kid who got on the bus the other day holding a thin branch of a tree (with loads of leaves and offcoming twigs) which was bigger than he was. He sat on the bus and sort of hid behind this branch, and ate an apple. Thought this was quite bizzare.

When I was on my way to work I saw a bookshop called “The Curious Otter”. Thought that was quite a weird name for a bookshop, yet somewhat amusing. Didn’t occur to me that it might be called that because the village is called Ottery St. Mary, and therefore the people might call themselves Otters. Not 100% sure about that though.

Made a lemsip earlier (cause I’ve got a damn cold) and found it amusing that the sachet specified “for oral use”.

In other news, my first week of work at Cosmic was fun. The getting up is hard though. I’ve always been terrible with mornings, and I expect I always will be. The journey home is pretty awful also. It’s 12 miles with 2 bus journeys, but takes around 90minutes, and often more. Stupid traffic and bus service.

I sold my World of Warcraft account yesterday too. I got £150 for it, which isn’t bad for the past 18 months, I guess. I know I could have gotten more for it, but not a huge amount. I thought it was wise to take the £150, considering I’m going to be getting paid monthly anyway, £150 seemed like a good enough offer. Really going to miss a lot of my friends though. Logged in to delete people from my friends list and such, felt very nostalgic. Hopefully that will pass soon though.

Well, I’ve heard a lot of rumors, but these seem to be most believable:

He was in fear of suffering severe brain damage, but has come out of intensive care now. He’s making basic responses to people: Jeremy Clarkson told him he’s a shit driver and he smiled.

It seems the guy is making a great recovery, and we can only wish him the best of luck.

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