Category Archives: Language

To course or not to course

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Cat

Whilst the reason I first moved back to the UK in 2003 was to do a one year humanities Access to Higher Education course, I never really considered studying. Sure, I had some ideas and for a while played around … Continue reading →

Posted in Community and Games, Language, Personal | 1 Comment

Too many languages..

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Cat

..yet it’s only two! My inability to speak German has found its way into several blogposts before with the most notable one being this one. Things have somewhat changed since then. A couple of months ago I started a new … Continue reading →

Posted in English, German, Language | 4 Comments

The evolution of language

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Cat

It’s not a secret that I love watching Hercule Poirot mysteries starring the one and only David Suchet. We’re watching between one and five episodes a week in the house and currently have about 15 episodes recorded on Sky Plus. … Continue reading →

Posted in Language, Poirot | 4 Comments

Links I’ve been meaning to blog about for too long

Posted on November 14, 2009 by Cat

The title says it all and some of these have been open in Firefox tabs for months! Can you predict review scores? – I can’t believe anyone thought this was worthy of a company! Maybe I should start a company … Continue reading →

Posted in BioWare, Community and Games, Films and TV, Game Politics, German, GTA, Halo games, KotOR, Language, Lost, NaNoWriMo, TV Shows | 2 Comments

What does YOUR handwriting look like?

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Cat

I have now been able to write for 19 years since I was first taught the ‘Vereinfachte Schreibschrift’ which translates to English as ‘Basic Cursive penmanship’. It is the standard form taught across all the primary schools in Germany and … Continue reading →

Posted in Computer, Handwriting, Language | 23 Comments

Procrastination at it’s finest!

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Cat

That’s a list of things I wanted to get done on this blog today ranging from sorting out some pages, clearing up the sidebar, transferring more content from cat on tumblr and creating new pages. How many of the things … Continue reading →

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2nd Cousin twice removed?

Posted on April 25, 2007 by Cat

English can be a difficult language. There are so many words or terms that I don’t know, even after living here for almost four years. Especially when it comes down to family relations. This image sums it all up perfectly: … Continue reading →

Posted in Language, Wikipedia | 16 Comments