[He navigates the syllables with native ease, then shrugs helplessly.]
It was just one of those things that never really came up when I was a kid, you know? Seems like such an easy thing to know, but I didn't even realize till I was at a friend's house and we needed one for something. I kept going, "Where's the skovoroda?" and my friend kept looking at me like I was crazy until I was finally like, "That's not English, is it?"
[He laughs again, because what is even going on with the bilingual brain, he doesn't know.]
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Date: 2015-02-08 04:39 am (UTC)It's okay, you can laugh. It's skovoroda.
[He navigates the syllables with native ease, then shrugs helplessly.]
It was just one of those things that never really came up when I was a kid, you know? Seems like such an easy thing to know, but I didn't even realize till I was at a friend's house and we needed one for something. I kept going, "Where's the skovoroda?" and my friend kept looking at me like I was crazy until I was finally like, "That's not English, is it?"
[He laughs again, because what is even going on with the bilingual brain, he doesn't know.]