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The better part of an hour constructing a simple Somali sentence and I'm still not sure I got the grammar right. Osage was much easier than this! Seems like I never do much with languages any more, which is okay--my fancies come and go--except that it feels harder than it used to be. Or maybe that's just me idealising the past and forgetting how many hours I would spend struggling to grasp a point of grammar which seems self-explanatory now.

I finally got an upgrade to my PC at work. I hope I didn't frighten the Jeremy Freedman look-alike who took care of it, but it was a bit upsetting to log in and find all my personal files gone, even if I knew they were all backed up. (Turns out a reboot was all that was required to resync the pathnames or whatever.) It's about time, because the sluggishness on the old machine was really starting to wear on me.