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Now that you put it that way it makes more sense. In all my years of Spanish, nobody has ever explained that to the class; they always just said "you just kinda know when to use it".

Differentiating "por" and "para" is one of the hardest things to learn in Spanish as a non-native, hahaha. I don't think I fully grasp it yet, myself, and I've been studying for like 4-5 years now.

Why para? I'd use por.

"para" is usually used "for the benefit of," kinda. It has a more direct relationship, while "por" has a more circular relationship. "Por la cena" to me, you would only use to mean "by means of." "Por la cena, no tengo hambre ya más."

But I could be wrong. Spanish has a lot of weird phrases and quirks that make no grammatical sense.

I don't think I'm going to go to that Red Giant interview. I have 0 desire to stay in Portland.

Even if I did get the job, it would be incredibly hard to scramble to find a place to live seeing as I only have a month left here,

and I wouldn't know if I get the job for another 2-3 weeks at least. Gahhhhh.

 

I need to find some random job I can do for a month before I leave. Hmmmmmm.

Mow lawns

That band is fucking amazing. They started following me on Instagram, so I checked them out and got hooked.

Precisely what happened to me, hahaha.

i think we need a secret handshake. 

Brainstorming ways to achieve this through text.

Ooh! Voy a comer tacos por cena anoche!

Hm... I'd use para.

No sé lo que quiero cenar. Tal vez Vienna Sausages.

Apparently we should address English before trying any new languages

hahah waht are you talked abt friend???

Ugh, I hate that. Like... They live literally an ocean apart. You really think they're gonna speak exactly the same? Lmao.

No better than the people who think AAVE (African American Vernacular English) is "just broken English."

This girl I dated a lifetime ago had spent her senior year in France on exchange, so when she came back she had the most amazing language skills. However, she had the utmost contempt for French Canadians based on the way they speak vs. people in France... never made a damn bit of sense to me at all

Ugh, I hate that. Like... They live literally an ocean apart. You really think they're gonna speak exactly the same? Lmao.

I understand some Greek and Polish as well. Again, spoken and not written.

Reaaallly wanna learn Polish.

I played ice hockey in Quebec... I had to speak French haha

Makes sense! Haha. For the longest time I thought Canada was just wholly bilingual.it wasn't until recently that I learned there are mainly English-speaking parts and French-speaking parts.

My headache will not go away, this is annoying. I keep dozing off today, since it actually pretty slow for me today. I'n only at 33 calls, which is half of my normal call volume, but higher than everyone elses normal day.

Why you get so many call

My French skills have dwindled terribly... I used to be fluent, but now not so much... and forget writing it.

All of my language learning comes from in class or online so I'm always waay better at writing and reading than speaking and fuck listening. Especially with Spanish.

I, for one, welcome our new VC overlords

Non espanol... non deutsch

Je n'aime pas françois very much :/

I think we should worship the vocalist of the band Portal.

Who do we worship? Travis or Cthulhu

Is that even a question?

We are learning a new language as a group, and it's not a language recognized by any country at all, so I think Small Talk is slowly becoming a cult... Yessssss!!!!

Sign up for duolingo, and do the Esperanto course! We got this.

I still appreciate how elaborate the crazy bullshit on uncyclopedia is.

Oh yeah, uncyclopedia can be pretty Douglas-Adams-esque.

I missed so many pages. Someone give me a summary, I'll shamefully admit to skipping like the last 6 pages.

Esperanto.

And other things I don't remember.

Just checking it out and it seems stupid

Again, 8th grade. Some articles were better than others.

There's a more offensive one? Now I know what I'm doing all afternoon

Encyclopedia Dramatica is fucking stupid

You'd probably appreciate this if you haven't seen this

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Anime

Man, I remember in middle school wasting all my time on uncyclopedia, and the much more offensive Encyclopedia Dramatica. Thanks for reminding me of this.

Oh yea, and one of my step kids made me homemade peanut butter cookies while I was in the hospital... My life is pretty fucking cool guys

My sister used to make bomb-ass oatmeal cookies with choc chips instead of raisins.