since... it's been a while

Hi, I'm Kiki, I'm from Bulgaria (i.e., ESL and with a background very different from most, since I did grow up in a communist country)

yes, I'm old enough to remember that

f/cis, bi/pan, poly, currently in a monogamous het relationship.
Software tester/validator, for the last almost six years in the automotive industry

parents actors, I've always been the weird kid who loved both literature AND math

Hey, same! /high-five!

I spent a high school year on an exchange program in the US, and then have been there on a few more occasions

o/*\o

My favorite thing to do ever is read. Even at times when words are hard (i.e. a chunk of text larger than about 500 words seems like a huge effort), I love it all the same

I only discovered RP in 2007 and have been weaving around it since then

(Relative to people who started in like. Middle school, I'm a baby. Then again, it's been more than a decade and I've tried to learn along the way.)

Current active kids are:
Regis Lucis Caelum (FFXV), Suzaku Kururugi (Code Geass), Izana Kunagiri (FFT0), and Larsa Ferrinas Solidor in Empatheias
Angeal Hewley in Recolle
Clone!Bucky and Cassie Lang in marvel_universe
Dick Grayson and sporadic Christopher Chance in dc_nation
Out of games: Ignis (FFXV) and a few others (Crowe, Ravus, Drautos)

Cissnei of ffvii

Basch fon Ronsenburg (ffxii). Kurasame (fft0)

um um um. Anything anyone is curious about, ask away?

Gonna be honest Kiki, if I didn't know better I realllllly wouldn't pin you for esl (obviously I know, I've known you for... shit. a while now)

/nods I still make usage slips, they are just harder to catch as slips...

but thank you!

i would but it's not about usage, it's about...hm, sentence structure a little? you play with and layer your english differently

so like outside of rp context i would not

well I've known kiki for years without rping with her so maybe that's why I'm oblivious

still, mastering languages isn't a meagre skill

I had no idea!

<3

And yes, this is here so that people don't have to worry about asking me if something I wrote doesn't parse right

Heh. English does have a certain flexibility for sentence structure, and that helps. It often ends up as a poetic variant instead of "wrong."

"English doesn't “borrow” from other languages: it follows them down dark alleys, knocks them over, and goes through their pockets for loose grammar and valuable vocabulary."

and to be fair, no one seems to know how to use it anyway

see, you say 'flexibility' and I laugh

- Terry Pratchett

because in Bulgarian you can easily have the verb before the sentence's subject

and that's... really weird in English

psa kiki is the most rad

can confirm

I've had people jump down my throat for getting my prepositions "wrong," even though in the Midwest it's standard usage.

"Are you coming with?"

I mean people have gotten mad because I use single quotation marks, people be cray

I understand it's the German influence lingering all the way to modern days.

/nods

but yeah, to me the English sentence structure is inflexible

HAH, people are nuts because they can barely keep up with the rules themselves.

and I keep forgetting that when I get too distracted/tired

kiki just beat it with a stick until it complies... that's what I do

Huh. (contemplates that)

That! That's what native speakers do, anyway! XD

/nodnods

I used to take french lessons, that language did not want to take a beating

At this point any odd structure I see I usually write off as "that must be what the kids are saying now."

I mean, on the other hand in English the same word can be different things (verb, noun, adjective) at the same time, and that makes the structure kind of necessary

In general that is. Not from you specifically.

....yeah we like to do that. I apologuise for the language

haha /nods

(I also know, functionally, Russian, French, and Spanish, though less fluently than English. I can still read in them, though.)

I understand exactly enough french to make my quebecois friends think twice about using it around me lmao

bahaha

^

though they like making me say tabarnak... quebec swears are weird

that's about the extent of my French as well

(enough to read recipie books)

(that's a good measure)

food is always a good idea...

belated but another ESL here amused st the flexibility of English since compared to Spanish and Catalan it's really... not...

/high fives

I must plead "American" to have said that... In the tiny smattering of other languages I've studied a little, imposing English sentence structure without thinking about it tends to be adequate, so I never paid attention past that. X3

(there are ways in which English is flexible. Sentence structure is not it.)

I love that you tagged Ash with Larsa, so much.

I have not really gone to do Larsa tags since, I'm not ignoring that

/flappy hands at four days of social smack in the middle of my tagging rounds

I totally know how you feel.

<3 thank

<3

/gloms on

Kiki is an excellent person to tag and receive tags from. A+, highest recommendation.

Also agree!

weeeh <3 thank you!

Booooooooooooooks

What are some of your favorite books?

They vary a lot from time to time but. Jonathan Livingston Seagull. The Three Musketeers. Swordspoint. The Curse of Chalion. Memory. Ummm many more.

Ohh, Curse of Chalion. Such a great book.

It is

And Memory is my favorite of the Vorkosigan ones. =) I reread it often to remind myself that life Does Not Do What We've Planned.

Memory and ACC share that top spot but memory is easier as stand-alone

Every time I read it I end up going on, and then starting over from the beginning, and reading allllllll the books. Bujold is to be feared in that respect.

Yup yup.

She is also a great author to read while depressed

god yes. Again, especially Memory.

Yup

Hello Kiki!

Hi hi

/overheated wave

Hi hello I would like to friend you because GDC

hi go ahead, I'm still not even through what's been translated but \o/

also, just for ease of access, my ffxiv characters currently

if anyone wants to friend any of them let me know, I tend to have a random yen for one or another. The only one almost up to msq current is Jingshu, non-eu servers I'm at most in heavensward