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Feb. 15th, 2007 08:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaAbout a million years ago Cathy tagged me; apparently this means I have to list six weird facts about myself.
Expectations are going down. A few years ago I was required to write one hundred facts about myself. I could just extract six of them, but it feels like cheating. I was also interested to note that at least 10 of them are now out of date. I wonder if I can think of six things which have come to light since then...
1. I firmly believe that if you are ill, miserable, tired, cold or otherwise down everything can be made better by miso soup.
2. I'm a taxi-dancer for a modern jive class.
3. I drive over 20,000 miles a year.
4. I have never seen a giraffe. A chance remark made to some colleagues recently revealed that I had no idea how big an adult giraffe was (I have since looked it up - it turns out they're quite tall). And yes, I have seen them on wildlife programmes - but what do they include for scale ? Other giraffes.
5. I own and am trying to learn to play an English concertina.
6. For may years I have used the wrong French phrase to ask the time. This was uncovered in slightly embarassing circumstances in a Parisian café just before Christmas.
I'm not quite sure these constitute weird facts. But I suspect anything sufficiently weird would have been a lie.
I saw this game go the rounds on LJ a few weeks back, so I figure anyone I can tag who wanted to do it has probably already done it. However, please consider yourself tagged if I'm wrong ;)
Expectations are going down. A few years ago I was required to write one hundred facts about myself. I could just extract six of them, but it feels like cheating. I was also interested to note that at least 10 of them are now out of date. I wonder if I can think of six things which have come to light since then...
1. I firmly believe that if you are ill, miserable, tired, cold or otherwise down everything can be made better by miso soup.
2. I'm a taxi-dancer for a modern jive class.
3. I drive over 20,000 miles a year.
4. I have never seen a giraffe. A chance remark made to some colleagues recently revealed that I had no idea how big an adult giraffe was (I have since looked it up - it turns out they're quite tall). And yes, I have seen them on wildlife programmes - but what do they include for scale ? Other giraffes.
5. I own and am trying to learn to play an English concertina.
6. For may years I have used the wrong French phrase to ask the time. This was uncovered in slightly embarassing circumstances in a Parisian café just before Christmas.
I'm not quite sure these constitute weird facts. But I suspect anything sufficiently weird would have been a lie.
I saw this game go the rounds on LJ a few weeks back, so I figure anyone I can tag who wanted to do it has probably already done it. However, please consider yourself tagged if I'm wrong ;)
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Date: 2007-02-15 01:44 pm (UTC)Well...
In a café, waiting for my sandwich. And waiting. And waiting. Lacking the French for the situation, I figured I could say "I'm waiting for a sandwich. What time will it be?" I can say "what time is it", and I can put the relevant verb in the future tense. It won't be correct, but it will achieve communication.
Accordingly... "Nous attendons un sandwich, quelle temps ferat-il?"
As soon as I'd completed the first half of that sentence, the waiter launched into an explanation, thus I believe he missed the second half.
Which was fortunate. Once he'd gone, ChrisC pointed out that I'd asked what the weather would be like. He also pointed out some very simple ways of saying "when will my sandwich arrive", which I should in theory have known but had not managed to think of.
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Date: 2007-02-15 01:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-26 09:49 pm (UTC)