(Berlin)
And that I could speak German such as the person I met Friday night, who learned it well enough in three months in order to teach a university-level architecture course a number of years back.
I also wish I could process numbers more quickly, have some anchor of reference, so that when someone says (when asked) they graduated from Wash. U. in 1989, I actually can tell that we're only seven years apart instead of cultural aeons.
Curb Girl: what an urban-based accidental journalist accidentally thinks when she's falling face-first on figurative pavement
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Cultural aeons can be recursively applied - ten years can be an immense gulf, thirty years, far less. No math is required.
I thought I was the only one who had trouble with graduation dates - why is it so much harder to think in terms of those than birthdates? weird :) I'm with you on wanting to speak deutsch - so many languages so little time! alas...
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