I have many skills. It's true, I do. Among them: language acquisition .... or should I say (more often than not), language invention.
I am fluent in English, French, Italian, and Trevor, and have elementary reading knowledge of Latin. (German REALLY doesn't count). I am most accomplished, however, in Eskese.
I have been building a steady Eskese vocabulary over the past five months. I started small with things like, "coo" (for cookie), "yanta" (for "do you want a"), and "qui-see" (syntactically inverted italian for "we're going this way").
But Eskese isn't all about vocabulary. In fact, a much larger portion of the things I tell Eska are particular not in the words I select, but in the way in which they are put together, enunciated, or delivered.
To wit:
me: Deshanta mai, sheese da bess won?
Eska: (looks up)
me: Yissa my yissa. Sheese da bess won.
(Is my girl the best one? Yes. She's the best one.)
Or:
me: Skarina, my love. Kava kesh?
Eska: (no reaction)
me: COME ON! Not even a kesh, I can hava. Kava kava, my girl? Kava a lel lel won?
Eska: (steadfast)
me: Fine. Have it your way. But dass not even varry varry. In fact, iss varry varry.
(Eska, my love, can I have a kiss? COME ON! I can't even have a kiss? Can I have one, can I have one, my girl? Can I have a little, little one [kiss]? Fine. Have it your way. But that's not very [nice of you]. In fact, it's very [mean of you]).
Getting the hang of it?
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i totally got it. i can HEAR you saying it, en plus.
ReplyDeletei'm just waiting for the day when eska responds to you. verbally, i mean. in fluent eskese.
it's a good thing you have such strong language skills, because guys only want girlfriends who have great skills. no need to work on those nunchuck skills anymore; eskese is your golden ticket.
ReplyDeletealso, ditto what celia said: i understood every word and heard your voice so clearly saying it. if you ever have house guests who need an interpretor, you know who to call.
ok person who posted above me.
ReplyDeleteenough with the pseudo-porn.
you're not funny.
and now you're just predictable.
hahhaha i actually really like that my comment is now directed to La flâneuse. amazing.
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