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castiron's questions
Nov. 17th, 2018 06:33 pmThanks for the fun questions!
1. If you could become instantly fluent in any human language, past or present, which would you chose?
Hm... To go with the following question, maybe Georgian. On a more practical note, maybe Spanish. I am fluent, since my parents spoke it to me as a child, but they left Chile in 1965, so I speak a child's version of half-century in the past Latin American Spanish. It would be useful to have an adult, modern vocabulary, to be able to talk about trauma, or current events, or computers.
2. You get all-expenses paid trips to any two places, one place to learn their dances and one to learn their music. (All dietary, allergy, and fragrance concerns are magically taken care of.) Where would you go?
For singing, Republic of Georgia, no question. Their dietary mainstays are bread, cheese, and nightshades, so I'd have a rough time of it without your magical aids. Dancing is a harder question. I did go to Bulgaria about a decade back, although I didn't end up learning a whole lot of dancing at the time. Albania, maybe? I've learned a bunch of cool Albanian dances in the last few years, and I'm sure there's a lot more to learn. Also it seems like an interesting country and I don't know much about it. One thing I've learned about both dancing and singing overall is that each little region of a country has its own style, even in a relatively small country like Romania, so a trip like this would last a while if it was going to cover a whole country.
3. If some place created a holiday to honor you, how would they observe it?
Well! Dancing and singing, of course. And preparing and eating delicious food. In groups that make an effort to include outsiders in their celebrations.
4. In the movie of your life, what would be the theme song?
Something instrumental, in a minor key.
5. If you were designing the ecosystem for a giant space station with centripetal gravity, what plant or animal would you find a way to include just because you like it?
Oh, a cat, definitely! I remember a short story where a community set up on a space station had to go back to Earth because they started hallucinating bits of nature popping up in the corridors. A cat would keep people anchored in their mammal selves. (Probably not so practical in terms of scratching up important bits of infrastructure and spreading fur all through the air ducts.)
If you want questions, let me know.
1. If you could become instantly fluent in any human language, past or present, which would you chose?
Hm... To go with the following question, maybe Georgian. On a more practical note, maybe Spanish. I am fluent, since my parents spoke it to me as a child, but they left Chile in 1965, so I speak a child's version of half-century in the past Latin American Spanish. It would be useful to have an adult, modern vocabulary, to be able to talk about trauma, or current events, or computers.
2. You get all-expenses paid trips to any two places, one place to learn their dances and one to learn their music. (All dietary, allergy, and fragrance concerns are magically taken care of.) Where would you go?
For singing, Republic of Georgia, no question. Their dietary mainstays are bread, cheese, and nightshades, so I'd have a rough time of it without your magical aids. Dancing is a harder question. I did go to Bulgaria about a decade back, although I didn't end up learning a whole lot of dancing at the time. Albania, maybe? I've learned a bunch of cool Albanian dances in the last few years, and I'm sure there's a lot more to learn. Also it seems like an interesting country and I don't know much about it. One thing I've learned about both dancing and singing overall is that each little region of a country has its own style, even in a relatively small country like Romania, so a trip like this would last a while if it was going to cover a whole country.
3. If some place created a holiday to honor you, how would they observe it?
Well! Dancing and singing, of course. And preparing and eating delicious food. In groups that make an effort to include outsiders in their celebrations.
4. In the movie of your life, what would be the theme song?
Something instrumental, in a minor key.
5. If you were designing the ecosystem for a giant space station with centripetal gravity, what plant or animal would you find a way to include just because you like it?
Oh, a cat, definitely! I remember a short story where a community set up on a space station had to go back to Earth because they started hallucinating bits of nature popping up in the corridors. A cat would keep people anchored in their mammal selves. (Probably not so practical in terms of scratching up important bits of infrastructure and spreading fur all through the air ducts.)
If you want questions, let me know.
