OTOH extreme loose-endedness has driven me back to my Chinese grammar book where, hearteningly, the sample sentences keep giving me words I've heard in Woxin, like 可是. (Listen, 可是 is a very useful word.) First the context, then the explanation, is how it works. Alas, my grammar book won't give me that set phrase one uses when referring to one's ancestors' spirits, and my wobbly memory won't either.
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OTOH extreme loose-endedness has driven me back to my Chinese grammar book where, hearteningly, the sample sentences keep giving me words I've heard in Woxin, like 可是. (Listen, 可是 is a very useful word.) First the context, then the explanation, is how it works. Alas, my grammar book won't give me that set phrase one uses when referring to one's ancestors' spirits, and my wobbly memory won't either.
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(Really, why is Spenser in the Canon? A more lumpen poet I never read.) My scale's battery has died only a few months after I changed it. Very…
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Woke up at my once upon a time regular hour, which is 9:15, and for once was awake at that hour, no rolling over and sliding back to sleep, so for…
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Mutabilitie
(Really, why is Spenser in the Canon? A more lumpen poet I never read.) My scale's battery has died only a few months after I changed it. Very…
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(no subject)
Managed to lose an expensive only available online leg brace sometime yesterday, possibly at the laundromat. It was only occasionally useful, is why…
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Woke up at my once upon a time regular hour, which is 9:15, and for once was awake at that hour, no rolling over and sliding back to sleep, so for…
