2000-10-13 How peculiar. I should be really tired by now. And I think I am. It's just... I don't feel like going to sleep. So I hang around and try to find something proper on dialects. I don't think I'll be able to do the paper on them, actually. There's just too much confusion. Did you know that if I say the word 'pill' with a Finnish way of saying it, you'll hear 'bill'? It's because English uses aspiration as distinguishing feature and Finnish uses voicing. The same thing with tense and lax vowels. You'll say a tense vowel and we'll think it's long. There's no distinguishion between tense and lax vowels in Finnish but there's a dinstinguishion between long and short vowels. Well, you didn't need to know this. The last bus will go half past two, which isn't soon enough. I mean, I have no intentions of going back home tonight. Which reminds me, I promised to go back -what should I call it?- well, let's just say, see my parents next weekend. It's making me efficiently very miserable. I hate that house. It's raining outside. Inside it's hot and humid, which is quite disgusting. You'd think that people have better things to do on a Friday night than to sit here and surf. But then, I don't either... Although it's merely a question of what is considered better. I could be writing essays, too. Or party. Or something. There are always options. This makes my point. I'm reading a book on Finnish grammar. It's quite interesting, actually. It's in English, which makes it easier to read. (Does that make sense?) I think I should make myself uselful now and stop rambling. Jesus, I think I like writing about irrelevant things. It's horrible. And uninteresting. But honestly, I don't care if you don't care. As easy as that. Sleep well. | older aion spindrift e-mail my profile diaryland.com