Snowflake Challenge #4

[eller]

This is Snowflake Challenge #4, "In your own space, create some goals." Sure. I have some personal goals for 2021 (beyond the professional ones, which I'm not going to talk about here)! None of these plans are new, precisely, but it's the first time I compile them like this.

- Raise my online chess rating by at least 150 points. That one is going to be hard because I'm already at a level where the progress of gaining playing strength goes sloooooooowly, but hey, I'm still stuck at home, so it's not as if I'd ever get a better opportunity to do some ambitious training. Also, once tournaments start again, I want to raise my real-life rating... As soon as I get the opportunity.

- Survive Chocolate Box. XD I'm still a bit nervous about that - but haven't deleted my signup. I'm being very brave, ahahahaha! Also, there are at least two prompts I desperately want to write whether I match to the prompters in question or not.

- Find a way to make shadow theater videos that don't look too crappy. (My first attempts were too horrible to show anywhere.)

- Get myself a new Celtic harp so I can play again. Also: play the piano more often. I've neglected my music a bit, but I miss it.

- Do proper High German (and maybe also English) translations of some folk songs that are originally in Platt (Low German) - I know no one cares, but hey, I feel someone should do it.

- Render at least one of my stories from my project-thingy as a coherent comic. If that fails: at least do more proper illustrations.

Comments

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Aw. Well, better to learn that here than somewhere else. Without a footnote, it didn't happen. The footnote needs one too.

English is rife with ambiguity. Which is horrible when people that don't know shading in language micromanage.

[eller]

For footnotes, see Terry Pratchett, who was the best at footnotes. ;)

German is complicated, because a) ambiguity is fun, and b) there's about 200 different dialects, and c) no, they don't all understand each other somehow. They're so different from each other that I managed to pick up some English like another German dialect because, hey, it has the same roots as all the others. Theoretically, everyone should speak High German, but, uh. In practice, it looks a bit different. (There are lots of inner-German racist jokes about the other tribes and their unintellegible, barbaric languages.)

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Yes. I was speaking of them in their weight bearing sense, as in the humanities and social sciences, they're a handy dandy
tool. Defense, offense, carries water--

I'm aware that no, they are significantly different. So, I didn't take it personal my German was nonsense in Vienna. And yes, the format of certain jibes Indistinguishable and just as lethal. It's why I really hate that "ginger jokes" have made it from Great Britain to the US. They are EXACT, and phonetically too close even if they weren't. It's bad enough we've got broken from context vaudeville jokes like "red-headed stepchild". (Which usually have a cloud of jokes because that was the point. Memes without wires.)