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• @giynlith said: Well played, Suzanne Collins, well played. Now, to find a copy of "Catching Fire." [ 6:24 PM]
• @I said: @giynlith Du kannst die erste Seiten auf Deutsch hier lesen: http://goo.gl/RClin . Ich glaube, dass es noch zu schwierig ist. #deutschlernen [ 6:31 PM]

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• @benpop said: I've always had trouble with the that/who relative pronoun. [ 5:24 PM]
• @I said: @benpop That's because it's a made-up rule: http://t.co/dYUhfrs #linguistics [10:20 AM]

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• RT @RichardFife via @tordotcom: "I would rather my child grow up with a doubt about what is right than a surety of it." http://t.co/zQ8nKMk [ 1:12 PM]

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• .@giynlith Check out super-literal vocab "nehmen Teil" and "Teilnehmer" in http://t.co/OuIlfrt #deutschlernen [ 2:37 AM]

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• Whoa, the laugh of this woman at my restaurant sounds just like the "ping" noise the alien monsters in "Pitch Black" make... [10:49 PM]

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• @giynlith said: I hope Masters is tormented by what she did and that she decided to turn down House's internship. [ 4:52 PM]
• @I said: @giynlith Psst, "House" isn't real... #PSA [10:33 PM]

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• Just got like 6" of hair chopped off. Now it's "only" several inches past my shoulders, instead of all the way to my waist. [ 4:53 PM]

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• #ff @FirstWorldLife [ 9:02 PM]

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• @Eeveelyn said: I need to start publishing more conlang stuff. I keep working on it in an offline way. I'm so bad at sticking with blogs! [ 7:14 AM]
• @I said: @Eeveelyn What #conlang(s) do you work on? And you don't have to have a blog that needs "regular" updates. Just a static site will do. :) [ 1:05 PM]
• @giynlith said: An R-sound in German: "The sound approaches a dry gargle." Hehehe. [ 3:35 PM]
• @I said: @giynlith What, [ʁ] or "voiced uvular fricative" aren't good enough explanations for ya? ;) #deutschlernen [ 7:54 PM]

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• RT @freebsdgirl I don't always test my code - http://i.imgur.com/y7Hm9.jpg // via @theterabyte [10:23 PM]

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• RT @shazow: Spam 2.0 (aka. Social Spam): People telling you things you don't care about. // Perhaps even this very tweet! [ 4:05 PM]

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• I suspect that someone's high-grading the Lucky Charms at work. #firstworldproblems [ 5:46 PM]

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• Made myself flashcards of my family's phone numbers, since I've forgotten them all after using a cell phone with an address book. [ 2:27 PM]

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• I drove to work! In a manual! With uphill starts and uphill up-shifting and sudden downshifting from merge-craziness, and no one died! ;) [11:58 AM]
• On the stick shift front, stop-and-go on the freeway sucks but is, admittedly, great practice. [ 6:18 PM]

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• @giynlith said: @arthaey Why do you use "ich hab" instead of "ich habe"? [11:15 AM]
• @I said: @giynlith Because it's usually pronounced as "ich hab" in speech and written as such in informal writing. #deutschlernen [12:03 PM]
• @I said: @giynlith Hast du Silbermond gehört? Diese Band gefällt mir. Zum Beispiel, dies Lied: http://t.co/NEsTekL #deutschlernen #de [ 1:46 PM]
• @ULlinguist said: When you have some extra time on your hands, why not invent a new alphabet like one of these? http://t.co/2xWeno7 [ 1:33 PM]
• @I said: @ULlinguist You mean like http://goo.gl/GyWh9 ? Or http://goo.gl/GdcW5 ? Or http://goo.gl/3NW0B ? ;) #conlang [ 2:15 PM]
• @benpop said: THE X IS RIGHT NEXT TO THE C #qwerty [ 2:07 PM]
• @I said: @benpop YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG #dvorak [ 2:18 PM]

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• For the Sci-Fi curious: "How to Start Reading SF" part 1 of 6 http://t.co/FygGcYy via @tordotcom [12:22 PM]

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• Watch this YouTube video w/o reading the title first: http://t.co/fID4SKy via @mcpusc [ 5:36 PM]

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• I think caffeine affects me again, now that I rarely drink it. Half a cup of black drip coffee and I'm feeling ... kinda icky, actually. [ 3:23 PM]

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• @Fundeu said: RT @Apinera: ¿Es período o periodo? / Las dos son correctas [ 4:59 AM]
• @I said: @Fundeu @apinera Aprendí "periódico" en la escuela. Es "periodico" parte de las reglas nuevas de la RAE? #es [11:14 AM]
• @I said: @lordsilent If I say "2 #net", is that 2 sentences? 2 pages? But what's a "page" on the internet? Similar question for #news. #tadoku [ 2:19 PM]
• @lordsilent said: @arthaey 2 net is 2 pages on the internet. A page (assuming you are reading japanese) is 400 characters or 17 sentences. [ 3:50 PM]
• @arthaey said: @lordsilent If I say "2 #net", is that 2 sentences? 2 pages? But what's a "page" on the internet? Similar question for #news. #tadoku [ 2:19 PM]
• @I said: @lordsilent I'm reading Spanish and German. What statistics are you using for sentences/page for those languages? #tadoku [ 3:54 PM]
• @I said: @tadokubot 26 #es #sentences [ 3:55 PM]
• @I said: @tadokubot 3 #es #lyric [ 3:55 PM]
• @I said: @tadokubot 16 #de #sentences [ 3:55 PM]
• @I said: @tadokubot 0:05 #de #subs [ 3:56 PM]

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• On second thought, I don't think I'll be doing #NaShoStoMo after all. Short stories require *stories.* ;) I don't have 30 ideas right now. [ 1:39 AM]

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• @I said: @tadokubot #reg [ 6:53 PM]
• @TheKwago said: @tadokubot 2 #news [ 4:40 PM]
• @I said: @TheKwago What's the unit for #tadoku #news? 2 minutes? 2 sentences? "2" what? [ 8:11 PM]

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• After all that walking, I think my feet are ground meat. I may never leave this über-comfy chaise lounge at Starbucks. [ 4:19 PM]
• .@giynlith Oh I wore my hiking boots. But city-slicker feet stil protest when they're suddenly asked to walk 8 miles w/o warning. #worthit [ 4:23 PM]
• Starbucks won't mind if I just take a little nap over here in the corner, right? I'm sure it will be no problem... [ 4:24 PM]
• Wie viele Wörter weißt du schon in diese List, @giynlith? Ich weiß alle, bis auf vier. :D http://goo.gl/gF3V7 #deutschlernen [ 5:42 PM]
• Hey @epicbaker! RT @olliesaunders Good domain name: www.thefoodinmybeard.com [ 7:42 PM]
• I'd forgotten what a good job Kevin Spacey did with his version of "Beyond the Sea." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vO3jJpoNY4 [ 7:59 PM]
• "Using the genitive in spoken [German] adds sophistication and an up-scaled touch." Dative is used now. http://goo.gl/TEeqT #deutschlernen [10:03 PM]

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• @giynlith said: @arthaey And then CLEAN ALL THE THINGS?? [ 3:39 PM]
• @arthaey said: @giynlith Zomg so hungry, when I get there I'm going to eat ALL THE CREPES! [ 2:40 PM]
• @giynlith said: @arthaey Like, after eating crepes. :P [ 1:31 PM]
• @I said: @giynlith ALL THE CREPES turned out to be 1.5 crepes, and now my tummy hurts. #sotasty #hurtssogood [ 4:14 PM]
• @giynlith said: @arthaey I recognize a lot of them, but I couldn't define them if you asked me. :/ German study has been deprioritized, sadly. [ 7:11 PM]
• @arthaey said: Wie viele Wörter weißt du schon in diese List, @giynlith? Ich weiß alle, bis auf vier. :D http://goo.gl/gF3V7 #deutschlernen [ 5:42 PM]
• @I said: @giynlith Du solltest Deutsch lernen mehr! (Gerade hab ich den Unterschied zwischen „sollen" und „sollten" gelernt!) #deutschlernen #de [ 7:41 PM]
• @bernard_ben said: Registered 20lbs lost on my eat less and walk the dog diet! Very excited to get to 30... Thanks #healthmonth #loseit and #withings [ 8:06 PM]
• @I said: @bernard_ben Way to go!! 20 lbs is pretty amazing. I've only lost 7 lbs since Feb, but better than the +10 pounds from Nov-Jan. #healthmonth [ 8:21 PM]
• @giynlith said: @arthaey I recognize a lot of them, but I couldn't define them if you asked me. :/ German study has been deprioritized, sadly. [ 7:11 PM]
• @arthaey said: Wie viele Wörter weißt du schon in diese List, @giynlith? Ich weiß alle, bis auf vier. :D http://goo.gl/gF3V7 #deutschlernen [ 5:42 PM]
• @I said: @giynlith So to get my German close to my level of Spanish, I need to study ~400 hrs. At 1 hr/day, that's over a year. Oi! #deutschlernen [11:50 PM]

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• Patrick Dunn FTW: "#conlang with 5 cases (nominative, accusative, accusatory, accuvision, nomnominative [food only])" http://goo.gl/7qim9 [ 1:13 PM]
• .@giynlith Take cream stout beer. Add scoop of vanilla ice cream. Enjoy stout float! I liked this even when I actively disliked all stouts. [ 4:30 PM]

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• @giynlith said: @arthaey The only beer in my fridge is Guiness Stout :( [ 3:30 PM]
• @arthaey said: @giynlith I'm working outside at a table in the shade, next to a (fake) pond with cattails and a fountain. Cool breeze. Only missing a beer. [ 3:24 PM]
• @giynlith said: Is there anything better than the first few perfection spring days after months of rain and gray? #spring #sunshine #happy [ 1:22 PM]
• @I said: @giynlith Meh, Guiness is too weak a stout. #cantbelieveijustsaidthat @mcpusc @staticfoo #insertdarksidecommenthere [ 3:45 PM]