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Thuriniel
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| mistressofbucklebury wrote: | Ohh hadn't heard that about the epidural...  I've already been put off having one on my stomach because I had a friend whose dolphin turned into a whale when she got pregnant.... eekkk a tattoo with strech marks!! 
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For a man or a woman ... I don't understand why anyone would put a tattoo on the stomach. Women get pregs ... men get beer guts. And then the tattoo blows up to enormous proportions.
I didn't know about the ink and the epidural ... that's one good thing to know. I've gone through childbirth twice and I swear by it! I wouldn't want to do anything that would prevent me from being able to get it!
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Panneth
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| Thuriniel wrote: | | I'm fluent in three (English, Spanish, Catalan), I can defend myself in one (French) ... and to that I can add 3 that I can translate, if you include Sindarin (Latin, Classical Greek, Sindarin). |
*cough*geek*cough*
Says the physicist.
Going back to putting holes in one's body, I have just two in my ear. I had a bar through the top of one ear a couple of summer's ago, but I took it out for about 24 hours because I had a job interview or something, and the skin grew back over the top. The thing had been in for months. I took it as a sign.
As for tattoos - you will never get me anywhere near a needle of pain.
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Rous
Joined: 20 Mar 2004
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Location: Trying to stay below the radar
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| Texasgirl wrote: | I've been learning spenish since i was in grade school - half of my county only speaks that. I would've liked to take german, but who the hell speaks german in Texas?!?!
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Hey, our second language is Spanish, and we live in the middle of the Bible belt. I learned in HS, but I was told that it is not the same Spanish commonly spoken. Both my girls started in kindergarten, but only the eldest one kept it up. She is fluent in south of the border Spanish. The nanachild is so mixed up that half of his sentances are Spanish and half English. Drives the Dude crazy trying to understand him.  (And that is so worth it!) We mostly speak at home something we call Spanglish. Just a mishmash of both, with a touch of Sindaran thrown in, when I can get away with it.
On the piercings, I had the first two done by a nurse, with an awl, ice cube and a potatoe. It was before they had the guns. I did the next two myself, but one would not heal, so I let it close. Then I had three put in by a pro with a gun. I will never do that again. I did the last two myself. I just went to Wallyworld and got the earrings and did it with a large needle and an ice cube. After six months, I am finally able to get a hoop in the upper part, but it takes a lot longer to heal up there. And as someone else mentioned, it hurts bad enough to wake you in the night if you lay on it wrong. 
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Thuriniel
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| Panneth wrote: | | Thuriniel wrote: | | I'm fluent in three (English, Spanish, Catalan), I can defend myself in one (French) ... and to that I can add 3 that I can translate, if you include Sindarin (Latin, Classical Greek, Sindarin). |
*cough*geek*cough*
Says the physicist.
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Hey, I suck at physics, I made it through 101 by some sort of miracle ... languages is something I can be somewhat sure I'm good at  .
We're geeke, aren't we?
And proud of it  !
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Thuriniel
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| Rous wrote: | Hey, our second language is Spanish, and we live in the middle of the Bible belt. I learned in HS, but I was told that it is not the same Spanish commonly spoken. Both my girls started in kindergarten, but only the eldest one kept it up. She is fluent in south of the border Spanish. The nanachild is so mixed up that half of his sentances are Spanish and half English. Drives the Dude crazy trying to understand him. (And that is so worth it!) We mostly speak at home something we call Spanglish. Just a mishmash of both, with a touch of Sindaran thrown in, when I can get away with it.
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... and to prove just how geeky I am ...
Rous, it would take a book and a half to describe how Spanish is "supposed" to be spoken. You see, when you have 15+ countries that speak it, and each country has its own vocabulary and slang, and to that you throw in the fact that most Spanish speaking countries tend to be heavily leaned toward regionalism (courtesy of us Spaniards), you have a big mess in your hands at the time of describing how Spanish is supposed to be spoken.
Spanglish is a common phenomenon in the US ... I can see the utility of it and I see no problem in native speakers using it as long as they don't forget what the version in Spanish is. It's very sad to find second generation mexicans in my classrooms that cannot put a sentence together because they're saying stuff like "me esta frikeando" ("it's freaking me out"), which makes absolutely no sense neither in Chile nor Spain nor any other Spanish speaking country.
This is my most mellow approach on the matter. I'm well known in the classroom for trying to brainwash my students on speaking the European version of Spanish  , and for defending the use of the Spanish zeta sound (it sounds like the English "th" in Thursday).
But don't blame me ... I'm a bit biased ... what can I say? ... I just love that snobby lisp .
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Texasgirl
Joined: 18 Oct 2004
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Location: Texas (no shit, sherlock)
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wow guys..what do you do in your spare time - read text books?!?!
i'm SO glad i'm out of grade school - hell, you couldn't pay me to go back to the prisopn that they call "school!"
haha, but then this is the girl that spends HER spare time at the mall (which is 42.7 miles away from my home, thank you very much) and when her money runs out, comes home and rides horses and muck stalls until her rain bursts...and when that happened, she come up stairs and goes on sites like this.
wow - who knew my life was so NOT interesting it could take up a paragraph?
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