I know, I know! I'm still in the process of 'acquiring' knowledge.
But today, I had my moment of self-loathing! I realized, yet again, how could such a big head hold such little knowledge!!
It all started this morning when I woke up to a sandstorm! Panic was the first thing that hit me when I jump out of bed, closed the door and window, wore a wet mask and pop an antihistamine pill. I know, I sound like a freak but I know I just had my last laugh 'cause there's no sore throat, blocked nose and everlasting eye-goop as I write this down tonight. Anyway, as the perpetual blamer that I am, I decided that the morning episode has got to do with the fact that my mind refuses to function for the rest of the day! (As if I've never had an unproductive day before!!.) Guess how I spent my entire day.
9:30 AM - Munching breakfast while checking FB notification, mail and twitter.
10:00 AM - Opened my book "Aspects by Bernard Comrie".
11:00 AM - Aspects by Bernard Comrie. Page 64. (Ok, how does Imperfective work in Mizo??)
11:30 AM - Hey!! dawn in Mizo = la in Lai???
11:45 AM - Practical Magic has finished downloading. Heigh Ho! It's movie time!
12:30 PM - Lunch time! Eeeekss... the sandstorm's still blowing! Can't go out of the room!
1:15 PM - That's it, Sandstorm or no sandstorm, I'm going out.
2:00 PM - Sweating away while sandwiched between a computer and a mini-fridge. Can aspects be diectic???
3:00 PM - What's the difference between chiah and tawh Mizo?? Where do you use hna in Lai??
3:30 PM - dawn, tep, ang in Mizo = Imperative Future????
5:00 PM - Ok what's the difference between tense and aspect in Mizo???
5:30 PM - I totally forgot, Phabo's (boyfriend) coming over. Drat! Running water stopped. Running from one cubicle to another, stealing water from buckets.
7:30 PM - Phabo left.
8:00 PM - Can Aspects be diectic in the first place??
10:00 PM- No evidence in other languages so far! :(
11:00 PM - This very line!
So as you can see, I literally spend the whole day on Mizo Aspect. And here I am still asking myself the same question!
O Big Head... why can't you contain a bigger brain???
O me of little knowledge!
That's when supervisors become Northern Stars!
way i see it: tawh and chiah refers to something that has happend in the past mahse chiah is more immediate. "tawh"- has been done. "chiah"- has just been done :D not much help
ReplyDeletei was kinda waitin for GOAL...rembrg my hostel nites withot tv..n getting live football updates on the net n waitin for GOAL to emerge on d screen..:)
ReplyDeletePractical magic???y do u download such old movies???
@ku2... Dat was my initial suspect! But Anyway, have just dumped chiah from a future marker as we also use it in Past sentence! :D Thnx a bunch anyways!
ReplyDelete@Ron Old is gold!
I downloaded the muvi merely because of these lines.
"Sometimes I feel like there's a hole inside of me, an emptiness that at times seems to burn. I think if you lifted my heart to your ear, you could probably hear the ocean. The moon tonight, there's a circle around it. Sign of trouble not far behind. I have this dream of being whole. Of not going to sleep each night, wanting. But still sometimes, when the wind is warm or the crickets sing... I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for. I just want someone to love me. I want to be seen. I don't know. Maybe I had my happiness. I don't want to believe it but, there is no man, Gilly. Only that moon".
ohh..y didn u just ctrl+c, ctrl+v the lines from somewhere??hehe
ReplyDeleteorrr
download that particular portion from youtube???lol...