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Jul. 5th, 2011 11:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisI'm straddling the rope that separates cranky from not-cranky. I'm trying to stay on the not-cranky side but the crankies are tugging at me...
I'm just going to blame the hot. It's still too morning to open up the patio door (my condo faces east). The A/C is cranked all the way up. Chef Anita is chefing in the kitchen and just chopped up what must be a truckload of onions. My eyes feel like *I* chopped 'em.
Work is tedious. I'm doing a giant pile of pages in Indonesian. I'm embarrassed to say that I did not know that there was that the Indonesian language was that popular. To an idiot's eye it looks like any romantic language with no weird accented characters. Not all that interesting to work with. Give me Russian or Korean or Thai any day. If I have no clue what the words mean at least those languages have pretty symbols to look at and work with.
Google+ continues to suck me in and I am powerless to resist. Right now it's all geeks and nerds pretty much. I'll be glad when regular people get there. Of course, they might all stay on Facebook and never show up which would be less fun but the geeks are interesting so if that's all it ever is, it will be ok, too.
While neighbors Ron and Ann are on vacation, I am having a blast reading their mail - well, only the catalogs and magazines. One of the many they get is Consumer Reports. There is a small little article in the latest issue about shoes that people are falling off of. The kind of shoes with big rocker soles. The kind of shoes that I have 3 pair of and had already suspected of causing 2 out of 3 of my recent falls! Sketcher Shape Ups. I hope some Goodwill shopper with perfect balance enjoys mine.
I found a nice flat pair of slip ons at Fred Meyer and I ordered two pair of sandals from Zappos that should arrive today. I might send both back now that I have the others. We shall see.
Now I need to get back to Indonesia.
I'm just going to blame the hot. It's still too morning to open up the patio door (my condo faces east). The A/C is cranked all the way up. Chef Anita is chefing in the kitchen and just chopped up what must be a truckload of onions. My eyes feel like *I* chopped 'em.
Work is tedious. I'm doing a giant pile of pages in Indonesian. I'm embarrassed to say that I did not know that there was that the Indonesian language was that popular. To an idiot's eye it looks like any romantic language with no weird accented characters. Not all that interesting to work with. Give me Russian or Korean or Thai any day. If I have no clue what the words mean at least those languages have pretty symbols to look at and work with.
Google+ continues to suck me in and I am powerless to resist. Right now it's all geeks and nerds pretty much. I'll be glad when regular people get there. Of course, they might all stay on Facebook and never show up which would be less fun but the geeks are interesting so if that's all it ever is, it will be ok, too.
While neighbors Ron and Ann are on vacation, I am having a blast reading their mail - well, only the catalogs and magazines. One of the many they get is Consumer Reports. There is a small little article in the latest issue about shoes that people are falling off of. The kind of shoes with big rocker soles. The kind of shoes that I have 3 pair of and had already suspected of causing 2 out of 3 of my recent falls! Sketcher Shape Ups. I hope some Goodwill shopper with perfect balance enjoys mine.
I found a nice flat pair of slip ons at Fred Meyer and I ordered two pair of sandals from Zappos that should arrive today. I might send both back now that I have the others. We shall see.
Now I need to get back to Indonesia.
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Date: 2011-07-06 05:51 pm (UTC)When I was in the Peace Corps, one of my jobs was editing pamphlets which were bilingual Thai/Arabic Malay - since Arabic is written from right to left, and Thai from left to right, we sometimes could get away with simply printing the Thai on the odd numbered pages and the Arabic script upside down on the even-numbered pages, giving us a booklet which would be Thai on one side and Malay on the other.
Oh, the reason we used the Arabic Malay is the three southern Thai provinces, which was a big chunk of our target audience, was part of old Malaya using Arabic script when the Brits made a present of them to Thailand, before creating the country named Malaysia and converting them to Roman characters.
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Date: 2011-07-06 05:53 pm (UTC)i am oh so grateful that none of the languages we're dealing with are left to right. i've done that on former projects and my mind is not big enough for that.
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Date: 2011-07-06 05:57 pm (UTC)Yeah, if I had not grown up with Hebrew it would have fried my brain, instead of just giving it third degree burns. Being dyslexic was an added adventure.
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Date: 2011-07-06 05:59 pm (UTC)