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[personal profile] flameandsong was right; the people in the Diamond League are absolutely crazy. We are only 16 hours into the week, and the leader already has over 1700XP. How am I ever going to get the achievement for being first in the Diamond League? I have to *work*, people. :,,,( XD

Date: 2020-08-11 02:25 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ex_flameandsong751
Yeah the languages I'm taking at the moment seem to not have stories, which is unfortunate as that's a good way to rack up XP, 14 XP for 3 minutes and can be redone.

Date: 2020-08-11 02:42 am (UTC)
ex_flameandsong751: An androgynous-looking guy: short grey hair under rainbow cat ears hat, wearing silver Magen David and black t-shirt, making a peace sign, background rainbow bokeh. (general: GOLDEN OWL)
From: [personal profile] ex_flameandsong751
No, I'm not doing any of those at the moment. I have Norwegian, Dutch, Navajo, Finnish, Latin, Greek, Swahili, Indonesian, Hawaiian, Italian and Portuguese in my language list. I'm not working on them all at once, but as I gain golden owls I'll go back and work on some of the others. As far as I can tell none of them have stories.

Eventually I'll be adding Spanish, French and German to the list, but not for awhile, and probably also Swedish and Danish.

The answer to "are you out of your mind?" is "yes."

Date: 2020-08-11 03:11 am (UTC)
ex_flameandsong751: An androgynous-looking guy: short grey hair under rainbow cat ears hat, wearing silver Magen David and black t-shirt, making a peace sign, background rainbow bokeh. (general: GOLDEN OWL)
From: [personal profile] ex_flameandsong751
I thought about Irish but if I take it at all it won't be for awhile because it looks hard.

I'm also hesitant to take anything with a non-Western alphabet - as it is Greek is breaking my brain and I'm not exactly unfamiliar with the Greek alphabet. I tried Korean and I couldn't get past the alphabet because my brain kept screwing it up, so I dropped the course. As much as I would love to take Russian for fic reasons, I'll probably have to settle for Google Translate if I write more MCU fic and Nat is having A Moment.

(I'm OK with additional letters in a Western alphabet, like Norwegian has some letters English doesn't have, but I'm not having to memorize new symbols. The irony is that I can communicate in Norse runes and Tengwar, and I don't know why TF my brain can parse *that* and not something like the Korean alphabet or Cyrillic. ARGH.)

Date: 2020-08-12 05:21 pm (UTC)
ex_flameandsong751: An androgynous-looking guy: short grey hair under rainbow cat ears hat, wearing silver Magen David and black t-shirt, making a peace sign, background rainbow bokeh. (general: Duolingo)
From: [personal profile] ex_flameandsong751
Yeah, actually, I learned runes and Tengwar back in the 1990s, my brain was a lot more plastic back then. While I didn't mean for this to get dark, PTSD sort of short-circuited my brain and I suspect that's why it's harder for me to learn new alphabets now, I have some other cognitive difficulties that didn't start until my PTSD got really bad so I think that probably went along with them.

That's interesting that the top 5 in your Diamond League is mostly monoglots. I wonder why I keep running into extreme polyglots in my Diamond League...

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