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Jan. 3rd, 2001 12:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathystmy earlier estimation of the difficulty of my task was far, far understated.
I had neglected to realize that 42 pages of Spanish...is 42 pages of a foreign language, which has to be parsed one word or idiomatic expression at a time, instead of in blocks of sentences or paragraphs. Like reading from a character device (heh, /dev/spanish_book), except there aren't any handy ioctl()s (FLIOCTRANSLATE, anyone?). I'm not going to get any sleep tonight, dangit. And the summary isn't going to get written today...I'll have to do it during various classes tomorrow. Blegh. :/
I had neglected to realize that 42 pages of Spanish...is 42 pages of a foreign language, which has to be parsed one word or idiomatic expression at a time, instead of in blocks of sentences or paragraphs. Like reading from a character device (heh, /dev/spanish_book), except there aren't any handy ioctl()s (FLIOCTRANSLATE, anyone?). I'm not going to get any sleep tonight, dangit. And the summary isn't going to get written today...I'll have to do it during various classes tomorrow. Blegh. :/
