Happy birthday to me, I know Mandarin now

[xp_catseye]

I turned 21 and my brain power instantly increased. Today's 官话 exercises were trivial. "See Spot Run" trivial. There's a joke here about neural development, but from what I understand development moves forward from the amygdala. A fully formed prefrontal cortex is more likely to support pragmatic language processing, not accelerate acquisition.

Interesting.

I guess I'll move on to 吴语.

Comments

[xp_liono]

happy birthday

[xp_catseye]

Thank you, Kitten.

You may tell your mother the landscape she sent is lovely.

[xp_liono]

you tell her, you like texting her so much

she's all "Why don't you text me as promptly as Sharon?" you're like, her golden child and I'm chopped liver

[xp_catseye]

Obviously. I'm the daughter she literally never had.

Just for that I'm not buying you beer.

[xp_liono]

you're not old enough to buy me beer

[xp_catseye]

What birthday do you think I just had? It's in the post you're responding to.

[xp_liono]

you're 20

[xp_catseye]

And you're wrong. As usual.

[xp_liono]

wait, you're seriously 21?

but you act like you're maybe 12

[xp_catseye]

As they say, it takes one to know one.

[xp_liono]

yeah, but I'm 16. I'm supposed to be immature still

[xp_catseye]

Exactly.

Kittens don't get alcohol.

[xp_liono]

unlike Machias, there's more to do here