And now, it's the yay meme

[vilakins]

As I said in a somewhat more honest rant than the first rather forced rant on ranting I did in the previous post:

I tend to rant about things which make me really angry and they usually do because I can't change them, so ranting doesn't help. It don't even make me feel any better because it only makes me think about something I have no control over (like the changes in the IT industry) when I'd rather not. So if it doesn't change anything and doesn't make me feel better, what's the point?

So here's the meme reversed into a yay meme as kerravonsen has done, and posted because I responded to hers:

1. Comment with any subject that you would like me to enthuse about.
   
2. I will reply here.
   
3. Post this in your own journal, so that you may do the same for others.

It's gloriously hot and sunny, the cicadas are buzzing in the trees outside (I love cicadas), and I feel happy and holidayish, so hit me with one.

Comments

[daiseechain.livejournal.com]

You're the second person I know who knows eight languages! What an impressive acheivement! Do you have difficulty switching between them during conversations?

I'm fascinated by the origins of placenames, and streetnames and so forth. Particularly in England there's a lot of "Upper Bottomly", "Upper Middle Bottomly", "Upper Middle Little Bottomly", and so on, which I find amusing.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I don't really know eight languages, I've just studied them. :-) The only one I'm really fluent in and can think in (besides English) is German. I do mix up the others sometimes; for some reason random Hebrew words creep into the lesser-known ones.

The UK has the strangest names. There's a site somewhere with the ruder ones, but I can't remember where. spacefall posted it a while back. You enter a post code and it gives you a list of suggestively named places near you. I just whacked random number in for fun, but our big map-book of Britain was a source of amusement while we were touring.