Thursday, August 7, 2008

screwy tenses in appropriated tongues

...been struggling along with the Spanish... Interspersed between the occasional conversation I've had that's had real depth and clarity are recurring moments of profound befuddled ineptitude. Somewhere in the back of my mind a long forgotten high school teacher is standing over me screaming: "conjugate the verb in the past indicative!" Doh! Although I'm doing well getting along and communicating with people out here, my vocabulary needs work and sadly, I do need to dig up a few lessons on how to conjugate verbs in multiple tenses... not unlike this Hebrew man below in one of my favorite Monty Python movies ever, "the Life Of Brian." Observe - this is how some of us learned how to think in another language...

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