h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yep, that's where I have to really think carefully. At least that's what I thought I was tought. Also, I often get confused with the " 's " usage when it's not supposed to be "is". I think it had something to do with plurals or something.

Chinese, huh? After a few lessons of Russian I decided that I'm not going to learn anything that has a complete different alphabet. A few letters I can handle but not all of them.

Chinese has all the fun of tones, too. The syllable 'ma' can mean 'mother', or 'horse', or 'marijuana' depending on the pitch at which it's said.

As for apostrophes in English - it's taken me ages to get them right. I wish I could explain it, but I just give up.

Yeah, I just wing 'em when needed.

That particular syllable reminds me.. My nephew is half nepalese and I was once at his father's brother's (one of those cases when I have no idea whether it's right or not ) place fixing a computer and one of their kids came up to me and asked if I'm Daniel's 'maamaa'. Later I found out that it means mother's brother in Nepalese (and probably Hindi) but at the moment I really was quite clueless. I'm sure the expression on me face was a real Kodak time.

All the apostrophes in that post were precisely right. As for the expression on your face, I'll just imagine that. It would have been interesting.