I år hadde jeg ikke vårferie. Egentlig hadde vi alle en uke uten skole, det er sant, men 24 av oss fikk gjøre noe annet enn sove og prøve å glemme alt vi har lært siden semesteret begynte. I 10 dager i mars, dro skoleorkesteret mitt på tur til vestkysten, statene Oregon og Washington. Vi måtte spille 12 konserter både på skoler og i kirker. Det hele var ikke lett, men vi gjorde det og hadde det morsomt! Jeg la merke til et par interessante ting av og til:

* Regn: Det regner hele tida i disse veststatene, men ikke kraftig, som det kan hjemme hos meg, Minnesota. Og litt regn om morgenen er ikke noen dårlig ting, heller, siden været sannsynligvis kommer til å forandre seg om et par timer, og det blir sol. Regnet gjør ting grønne, også, noe som gleder oss som må bo i det brungrå Minnesota om vinteren. Vi liker det grønne.
* Hav: Jeg hadde aldri sett Stillehavet før denne turen, og jeg tror jeg møtte havet på den best mulige måten. Vi bare kjørte ut en dag og stanset ve...

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I just thought I'd announce here that I've succumbed to the hype and am trying to use twitter now --> http://twitter.com/proycon

I suppose I could also try to blog a bit on our new blog system here but I probably won't get around to it.

Nouns

*note, (a) means a harmonized “a” or any vowel in the brackets. [s] means s, only is the preceding consonent does not have a trailing consonent. Anything can be in the square brackets

Nouns in pilonja acount for most of the words. They fill the function of nouns, verbs and adjectives. Here I will explain their role as nouns. Nouns fall into 4 classes, they have 4 cases, and 4 types of suffixes.

The 4 classes of nouns are creatively named, noun classes 1 – 4. The term explanitive is explained next, so don't worry about not knwoing just yet. Nouns fall into each class as follows;
1.Regular Noun. Book, house, dog, ect.
2.Analytical nouns, nouns which take a type 1 suffixe. Ie, a class 1 noun + a tpye 1 suffixe. Type 2's are distinguished from type 1's because type 2's are prefferred not to be used as verbs and adjectives.
3.Common explanitives. These are nouns that are most commonly used in an “ X is Y” situation. Type 3's are distinguished from other nouns because they logical c...

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Today I have noted down some useful expressions in over 6 languages. I want to know as much as I can as young as possible so that I have a better chance of bringing it all in. I have a large ring binder with poly pockets full of information in over 50 languages and comparatives so that if I do find information in a certain language or certain languages I can easily go back to it and learn it. In the ring binder the languages are split into groups which are split into languages and the languages are split into topics called sections:

Germanic Languages
Afrikaans (1 Section), Danish (15 sections), Dutch (31 sections), English, Middle English, Old English (31 sections), Faroese (9 sections), Frisian (7 sections), Old High German, German (51 sections), Icelandic (11 sections), Luxembourgish (7 sections), Norwegian (20 sections), Scots (9 sections) and Swedish (14 sections)

Romance Languages
Catalan (16 sections), Franco-Provençal, French ...

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