I'm Joe's Worst Introduction Ever
Time for introductions.
Hi, I'm Zenit. I'm a writer.
I am supposed to be a writer -one of the bad kind; not like Will McGonagall but close. I guess it'll pass with time as I learn from all my errors and short stories. Wrote a novelette called "United We Stand", which from my family's critique had an air of an anarchist pamphlet. Unfortunately in Spanish, so I won't share it unless you're a fluent Spanish speaker interested in third class narrative.
Yes, I'm bilingual. You will probably hear this from people who either have enough spare time to learn foreign languages or foreigners who have to learn English because it's the 20th century lingua franca (Chinese will take over eventually, you know). My case is the second one.
I can't join the Workshop. I guess I'll have to ask for help anywhere else, or to somebody here.
And yes, I write in this poor pretentious copy of Chuck's style because of Fight Club.
I love-hate Chuck Palahniuk. Love him, because it's the kind of style I like: simple, clear, understandable, powerful. Hate him, because I'd like to have my own style back -in spite of all that of "having one's own style is overvalued".
I don't overvalue my own style. I take overvaluing it to the next level.
But Chuck has swallowed up, digested and dumped that. I'll get over it, but right now I can't stop writing like this.
This is my story.
Now it's time for guided meditation.
"After a whole life reading, I realized books don't make you cleverer. They think for you.
So I started writing."
If you want to try... It's just that I give preference to people who can fully understand the text -people whose mother tongue is Spanish.
But wanna try? You're welcome, white man.
"After a whole life reading, I realized books don't make you cleverer. They think for you.
So I started writing."
Visca Barça ! Real Madrid sucks !
Hey,
unfortunatelly I am not that good in Spanish. In fact, I hardly understand anything. But I'd like it if you quoted something from your work at least. (Even in Spanish)
I often think it's great- our breathtaking lingual diversity and so on but it also means that so many brilliant foreign authors remain unknown abroad only because their works are too hard or even impossible to translate into other languages. Even if someone translates it, it's almost never the same for a foreign reader.
What about your novelet's storyline? Does it resemble Fight Club as well?
Hmm,maybe it's time for my introduction as well.
By the way, whose are these words in your signature?
unfortunatelly I am not that good in Spanish. In fact, I hardly understand anything. But I'd like it if you quoted something from your work at least. (Even in Spanish)
I often think it's great- our breathtaking lingual diversity and so on but it also means that so many brilliant foreign authors remain unknown abroad only because their works are too hard or even impossible to translate into other languages. Even if someone translates it, it's almost never the same for a foreign reader.
What about your novelet's storyline? Does it resemble Fight Club as well?
Hmm,maybe it's time for my introduction as well.
By the way, whose are these words in your signature?
Nope, it's not Fight Club like at all. More like terrorists and government confrontation, told by a journalist. Loads of political dialogue and monologue, few action (hence why I'm rewriting some parts now).
And the quote is mine. I spend my spare time doing some life philosophy.
"After a whole life reading, I realized books don't make you cleverer. They think for you.
So I started writing."
Palabras.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Gracias Tuffy. Aprecio tu comentario.
"After a whole life reading, I realized books don't make you cleverer. They think for you.
So I started writing."
But wanna try? You're welcome, white man.
No, I don't want to try. I think I'll stick to my spanish for dummies just now.
I was being facetious in light of you only being willing to share with spaniards and latinos.
Like I said, I know several whites who speak very fluent spanish, having lived off and on in mexico for years at a time throughout their lives. Brown skin doesn't make a person an expert on a language. For that matter I met many a white who do not seem to have much of a grasp on english even.
I'm not a man either.
Then I can fix that, pepper.
"After a whole life reading, I realized books don't make you cleverer. They think for you.
So I started writing."
Wait! I know what that meant! something like
Thank you Tuffy. Appreciate your comment.
Maybe I'm translating too literally, or completely incorectly. Never learned those exact spanish words before. I do read the back of all my shampoo bottles frequently.
Let me start over. Welcome. what kind of sammich would you like?
Wait! I know what that meant! something like
Thank you Tuffy. Appreciate your comment.
Maybe I'm translating too literally, or completely incorectly. Never learned those exact spanish words before. I do read the back of all my shampoo bottles frequently.
Let me start over. Welcome. what kind of sammich would you like?
Ham and cheese, I'm for the ol' fashioned classics.
And that's a good translation, you only missed the I. We usually suppress the subject, the I's, you's, they's,... You could say "Yo aprecio tu comentario", but it's not the usual.
"After a whole life reading, I realized books don't make you cleverer. They think for you.
So I started writing."
I just made ham and chees for my kids tweny minutes ago, good leftover dinner ham too, not lunch meat.
"having one's own style is overvalued".
Wait. who thinks this?
Having your own voice might be the most important thing in all of writing. Probably even more important than spelling!
Also, I don't think we'll ever be speaking Chinese.
They may take over everything, but there's 300 damn different dialects.
I'm with Nate on this one. They are all ready required to learn English in school, they'll make English the international language when they take over.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
Spanish will be the one we all have to learn when we're doing yardwork with all the wetbacks.
Otherwise, lunchbreaks are going to be awkward!
Hahahahahaha!
Goggleboom! Plexotron! Vilafried! Kaloproot! Gimbotimber!
These are not really words!
thanks for sharing.blackhawk tactical pants.
— Spambot
"I could have done worse!" exultantly cried the murderer Lebret, sentenced at Rouen to hard labor for life. — Félix Fénéon
Are you a real madrid fan?
I can see this ending in tears.
Nope, I'm no Real Madrid fan. I've got most of my family living in the Basque Country, so I'm a sort of fan of the Real Sociedad.
You can't really call me a football fan though, I don't follow any matches except for when World Cup arrives.
"After a whole life reading, I realized books don't make you cleverer. They think for you.
So I started writing."
You can't really call me a football fan though, I don't follow any matches except for when World Cup arrives.
Good answer.
I'm a Barcelona fan, last month I was at the Barca V Sociedad game in Camp Nou.
Visca Barca!
Also I hope you stick around. I may need to pick your brain on some Spanish authors.
My brain's at your service. PM me, whenever you want.
"After a whole life reading, I realized books don't make you cleverer. They think for you.
So I started writing."
Okay, so being that you are new this is a very important question. Or it more or less has no real relevance at all. Its a Monday morning, you are starting your new job as a ceramic cup designer. On your way to work you here on the Radio that a mad man dressed as a giant pig is ravishing the town. Once you get to work you sit down at your desk, next to the office cat and get to work. What is the cats name, and what is his relation to your boss?
As your attorney, my advise to you is to start drinking heavily(er).-Tuffy
Her name is Linda, and my boss is a zoophile.
I'll let your imagination make the rest of the story.
"After a whole life reading, I realized books don't make you cleverer. They think for you.
So I started writing."
So you won't share with whites? Only spaniards and such?
I've got my spanish to english dictonary right here! And my Spanish for Dummy's! And those learn spanish audio class cds! Wait, I don't have those, a buddy never returned them.
But I do have my white friends (plural) who speak fluent spanish ready and on call if I run in any tricky slang or vernacular!