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Post by Avá on May 10, 2014 11:11:42 GMT -6
You just want to meet Steiv =P And you obviously an Avá naturally because she's amazing! (You more than him, we could just go to England and conveniently get lost or something lol) Fix'd. <3 I've never really traveled anywhere. I'm from England and live in Scotland so does Scotland count? Other than that, I've only ever been to America.
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Post by Liadan on May 10, 2014 14:41:17 GMT -6
Oh really? When? I'm going to London in December. I'm planning to travel to Glasgow next year in August. That'll be half a year too late and a couple of kilometres further north, but hey, if anyone would like to join me, you're all welcome! ! are you going to go meet Arelin? IIRC that's where she's at.
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Post by Sorillon on May 10, 2014 15:41:29 GMT -6
Been too long since we've heard from the tiger.
I envy all of you who travel so.
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Post by Firiath on May 11, 2014 4:19:33 GMT -6
I'm planning to travel to Glasgow next year in August. That'll be half a year too late and a couple of kilometres further north, but hey, if anyone would like to join me, you're all welcome! ! are you going to go meet Arelin? IIRC that's where she's at. She is! She's in my fb friends list and I just checked. If she'll still be in Glasgow when I travel there that would be the perfect opportunity for a tiny TFF meetup. (I can already feel the social anxiety being triggered! (j/k)) Been too long since we've heard from the tiger. I envy all of you who travel so. I envy all of the people who can go abroad on holidays. When (if) I travel to Glasgow it'll be because of a conference and I'm hoping that my employer will cover (some of) the expenses. :S
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Post by Taliesin on May 11, 2014 8:11:32 GMT -6
If I ever get to travel abroad, I would very much like to meet some of you!
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Post by Liadan on May 11, 2014 16:42:43 GMT -6
! are you going to go meet Arelin? IIRC that's where she's at. She is! She's in my fb friends list and I just checked. If she'll still be in Glasgow when I travel there that would be the perfect opportunity for a tiny TFF meetup. (I can already feel the social anxiety being triggered! (j/k)) Been too long since we've heard from the tiger. I envy all of you who travel so. I envy all of the people who can go abroad on holidays. When (if) I travel to Glasgow it'll be because of a conference and I'm hoping that my employer will cover (some of) the expenses. :S Aoife (Lyanna) and I have sort-of-maybe talked about hopping over to England to meet other TFF people. Maybe we could do a meet-up? Met's in London too! PS: What's your paper about? I feel like you're doing a PhD in Medieval English, but I could be completely wrong...
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Post by Firiath on May 12, 2014 16:45:46 GMT -6
Aoife (Lyanna) and I have sort-of-maybe talked about hopping over to England to meet other TFF people. Maybe we could do a meet-up? Met's in London too! PS: What's your paper about? I feel like you're doing a PhD in Medieval English, but I could be completely wrong... PhD in Medieval English is entirely correct! I'm still making the first steps, though, as I'm still looking for a topic - or a gap - to write about. But I already know I want to use my project as much as possible to travel abroad, and Glasgow could be my first opportunity. By then I might have something to present at the conference, and if I did my employer would certainly pay for (parts of) the trip and accommodation. But, yeah, travelling to English-speaking countries in general would be really great for a change.
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Post by Liadan on May 12, 2014 19:45:23 GMT -6
Aoife (Lyanna) and I have sort-of-maybe talked about hopping over to England to meet other TFF people. Maybe we could do a meet-up? Met's in London too! PS: What's your paper about? I feel like you're doing a PhD in Medieval English, but I could be completely wrong... PhD in Medieval English is entirely correct! I'm still making the first steps, though, as I'm still looking for a topic - or a gap - to write about. But I already know I want to use my project as much as possible to travel abroad, and Glasgow could be my first opportunity. By then I might have something to present at the conference, and if I did my employer would certainly pay for (parts of) the trip and accommodation. But, yeah, travelling to English-speaking countries in general would be really great for a change. Ah yes, dissertation confusion. (I'll definitely be experiencing that myself this time next year for my master's, and hopefully a few months after that, since I'm also going for a PhD in English! I'm in contemporary/popular literature though. (p.s. we should all meet in Glasgow)
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Post by sjfaerlind on May 12, 2014 19:59:13 GMT -6
Spamming?!?! In my section?!?!!?!? Why I oughta........ *admin slinks away in shame* lolol The only other Canadian province I've visited beyond the one I live in is Quebec. I'm so jealous. Ever since I was 14 (when I started learning French), I have wanted to travel to Québec. What is it like? Do they speak mostly Québécois? It's so wonderful and different from vanilla French. In my experience they do speak Quebecois or English. I once worked with a fellow who hailed from Normandy, France. He immigrated to Quebec, thinking it would be nice to continue to live in a French-speaking part of the world. He told me that he got off the plane and couldn't understand a damn word anybody was saying....lol. Do you know that they teach us European dialects of French in school here? To me that never made any sense at all. I can read French much better than I can speak it and I can't really understand all that much when I hear it spoken. To my ears, the language sounds like it is spoken too fast and one word blurs into the next, making it difficult to isolate individual words. I always admire multilingual people. It would be awesome to be able to be fluent in another language! If I ever get to travel abroad, I would very much like to meet some of you! seconded! I always wanted to see Europe. There's sooo much history there compared to here. All we have of historical remnants are museums and fossils.
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Post by TAZ on May 12, 2014 20:08:30 GMT -6
that would be no good for me, i barely speak english. as i age i find my words coming to me much slower, especially if i am distracted. i'll be in a conversation and cannot think of the next word. i say ummmm a lot.
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Post by Liv the Librarian on May 17, 2014 11:11:58 GMT -6
In my experience they do speak Quebecois or English. I once worked with a fellow who hailed from Normandy, France. He immigrated to Quebec, thinking it would be nice to continue to live in a French-speaking part of the world. He told me that he got off the plane and couldn't understand a damn word anybody was saying....lol. Do you know that they teach us European dialects of French in school here? To me that never made any sense at all. I can read French much better than I can speak it and I can't really understand all that much when I hear it spoken. To my ears, the language sounds like it is spoken too fast and one word blurs into the next, making it difficult to isolate individual words. I always admire multilingual people. It would be awesome to be able to be fluent in another language! Well, I wouldn't go as far as to say I'm completely fluent in French, especially after about 2 years of not studying it. But it wouldn't take me more than a week or so to get refreshed if I tried. I can read/write it a lot better than I can speak it. I have a hard time hearing people when they speak English, so when native French speakers speak to me, I have a hard time understanding them because the language is so lazy. The words are slurred a lot and they do speak it rather quickly, though really no quicker than we speak English, it's just harder to understand languages that aren't your first (unless you are 100% fluent and practice every day >_>).
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