http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:RosieProbert&section=today deviantART RSS for by:RosieProbert en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:02:06 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/28387706/ http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/28387706/ Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:56:56 PST So I decided on using my money on something else, something useful AND fun. And then I found it!

OK, so I study linguistics. Some of my friends would even call me a nerd or geek because of it. I've got t-shirts, cups, bags and fridge magnets with stupid linguistics jokes on them, I relate everything people say to things I read or learn in class, I correct people's grammar, I write essays about phonological changes in the Oslo dialect for a students magazine, so maybe I am. But I enjoy it, it's actually fun. And now I've used all my general linguistics knowledge to learn a bit of Russian and next semester I'll start with Welsh.

So how am I going to spend my China money now? I've been saving for two months, all the money I get from aunts, uncles or my grandmother whenever I see them end up in my piggy-bank. I bought a new one in September. A bright red one with Chinese letters on it; my China-Piggy. Maybe I should get me an other one, one with syntactic trees on it, or the IPA-chart. Because my China money is no longer China money, but Linguistics money.

This summer will be t h e b e s t s u m m e r e v e r! I'm going eight weeks (yep, you read it right, 8 weeks) to California and one week to the Netherlands for extra linguistics courses that I can fit into my study program here in Norway.
Eight weeks at the UCLA with phonetics and phonology; to help me get motivated to write my bachelor thesis, and one week at Universiteit Utrecht with syntax; to freshen up what I learned in my first year at the university. And when I get back to Oslo after nine weeks of fun study, the serious study begins. More Semantics and Pragmatics, more Morphology and Syntax, more Phonetics and Phonology, and the fun subject of the year: WELSH!

Why do I want to spend all my summer on more classes and exams? Well, I want the foreign experience. I've already done two years at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and two years at the University of Oslo (Norway), and I want to have even more experience from other countries and other scholars, but I can't take one semester here and one semester there and then back again to Oslo, because I'm almost finished with my Bachelor degree and I need my to see my mentor often enough to finally finish my degree. I want to be able to use the knowledge I get when studying aboard for my Master and later PhD, and I think this might be a golden opportunity. I also get to see more of the world and broaden my horizon, don't you think?

Well, enough talking now I have to go back to study for my Semantics and Pragmatics exam Wish me luck!

]]> ~RosieProbert http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/27699155/ http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/27699155/ Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:41:14 PDT My youngest brother moved to Shanghai this summer and now my 89 year old grandmother started to think about visit him. But Mormor is from this tiny little place in Norway called Høgda (t he Hill) and compared to her Hill Shanghai is a bit big, so she asked me if I wanted to go with her. And why wouldn't I? It's not everyday you get the chance to go to Shanghai is it?
I just hope we'll get there and that this is not just some dream that will never come true. Can you imagine a country as fascinating as China? All that culture and history, all those people, big cities, strange political views, and to us in the West weird traditions?
I really look forward to this trip, tonight I'll go and visit Mormor and plan it a bit more and maybe I'll go and get our tickets someday this week.
Oh man, I'm so excited!

]]> ~RosieProbert http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/26039211/ http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/26039211/ Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:23:23 PDT So I have one wish for my birthday this year (Tuesday 21st) and it's not world peace, erase all debts from 3rd world countries, free Tibet or anything like that this year; no this year I only want one thing:
INSPIRATION!

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"No one can quite explain why we love a person or a place or a certain kind of pizza. But when it comes to books we seem to be under the weight of a cultural inquisition that tells us ‘you must love Homer, you must love Shakespeare, you must love Ibsen!’ Well, there are many people who don’t, not every book is for every one; and when you realize that, it’s an enormous relief."

you got to hear him say it, because his voice and accent are just so marvelous

]]> ~RosieProbert http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/20699589/ http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/20699589/ Sat, 27 Sep 2008 06:20:03 PDT Thursday I wanted to go to the river because they turned all the lights off and gave everyone a torch so that we could walk along the river almost in complete darkness... But I didn't go.
But yesterday I went straight from the university down town for the Oslo Culture Night! At the Youth for Understanding office (the exchange organization I sometimes work for) the international students in and around Oslo had prepared food from their home countries and there was a story teller who told fairytales from all over the world and then there was a language game.
Around eight o' clock when it had gotten dark we continued down to the city hall for a guided tour in the clock tower but it was already fully booked and we couldn't go so we went for a ghost tour at the old castle in stead. All the night I was mad at myself because I didn't bring my camera because it was really beautiful..

But I went back to the castle today it was so pretty with all the autumn colours and the wind and everything that I spent more than three hours walking the castle grounds!

Now I have to leave because I'll have diner at my grandmother's tonight real Norwegian autumn-dinner called får-i-kål (sheep-in-cabbage)!

]]> ~RosieProbert http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/20636280/ http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/20636280/ Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:53:49 PDT But one good thing came out of all this, I got to see my own pictures again I really didn't realize that I had 239 deviations all ready, it feels just like yesterday that I made an account and uploaded my first pictures. Actually I've been on DA for almost a year now (10 months actually), so this is more a tribute to my true friends and watchers here for keeping supporting me by commenting and favouring my pictures!
Thanks a bunch, you are just the best!

]]> ~RosieProbert http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/20451422/ http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/20451422/ Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:19:01 PDT The roses and other flowers from my last upload session are all from this garden and all the naked people I uploaded today from the park it self.
I really hope that some of you will enjoy this park as much as I, either in the real world by a visit or on pictures...
I just love it

]]> ~RosieProbert http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/20161415/ http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/20161415/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:42:08 PDT I know I've been absent for more than a month and that's not like me at all so I guess I've got some explaining to do...

To begin at the beginning (quote from my favourite play by Dylan Thomas): I moved back to Norway in July and just a few days later my boyfriend came from Belgium to stay with me for a month. Of course I couldn't spend all the time in front of the computer when he was here so we went to discover Norway. Most of the time we were in Oslo but we also went for a week to Tjøme, about an hour ride to the south from Oslo.

On the first of August I moved into a new apartment together with my brother and then I became ill (I don't know if there is a relation between the moving and the becoming ill but I guess so). I had SHINGLES. It sounds even worse in Norwegian (Helvetesild) because the Norwegians call it Hell's fire! And sure it is Hell's fire! It hurts and it burns and AAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!! I've never been in so much pain before but I'm fine now

Actually we didn't have internet until today because the people from the internet company gave us a modem that didn't work and when we went to change it they gave us a new cable that didn't work either. and today they came and took the modem and the cable and gave us a new modem and a new cable and now everything is perfect and I'll upload some pictures either today or tomorrow

Oh yes before I forget University has started again here and I'm still studying linguistics but instead of English and German linguistics I now study Norwegian linguistics

Have fun and enjoy life!

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Wish me luck

The pictures are from the road trip through the countries mentioned above!

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I guess this is my last update in some time, because of the move and the settling in Norway I won't be able to upload anything very soon I guess...

Stay cool and be strong and enjoy your holidays!

]]> ~RosieProbert http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/19003777/ http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/19003777/ Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:47:04 PDT I've learned so much about my self and about the world and I definitely don't regret any thing!

So the last weeks I've been able to test my new camera and stuff, but I've not been able to edit my pictures or even resize them because of computer problems, you know all those stupid things computers tend to do when you need them the most...

I'll just upload some now and maybe more tomorrow or any other day this week, I'll see when I've got time

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P. 20: Some general tendencies can be pointed out [...]

p. 21: again, only tendencies can be pointed out...

p. 21 (later): in cases of doubt, a dictionary will have to be consulted

p. 22: [...] They can occasionally be used as common nouns.

p. 22 (again): [...] quantity nouns may also acquire negative or positive shades of meaning which in their literal sense they lacked.

p. 24: Note that classifying nouns/adjectives tend to form taxonomies within the sociocultural context in which they are used

p. 24: However, classifying nouns/adjectives sometimes allow for a marked form of 'gradability' [...]

p. 25: Note that a number of adjectives can be either qualitative or classifying, depending on the meaning.

p. 25: However, when two or more qualitative adjectives co-occur in one noun phrase, certain ordering tendencies (rather than hard and fast rules) may be observed.

Are there any rules in English at all?!!!!

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Luckily I'm almost finished here in Belgium, after three years I really start to yearn for 'home' even though a part of me will always love Belgium. I guess I'll get homesick to Belgium after a few years in Norway, I just don't see to be home in either country, actually I'm never home, I don't think there is somewhere I can be home..

Wish me luck with my exams

]]> ~RosieProbert http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/18317746/ http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/18317746/ Wed, 14 May 2008 09:09:21 PDT I'm tired of cars and buses, I'm tired of construction works and concrete. I need somewhere to relax, somewhere to go for long and solitary strolls and still be in the city. I need somewhere where there are flowers to pick and trees to climb in, and grass to lay down on.

I need Oslo.

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I live in a quite busy street, it is the main shopping street in Leuven and it is especially busy on Wednesday afternoons because all the schools close at 12 o'clock that day, then all the school children will go out shopping before they go home.

At half past two I went to the laundrette; the sun was shining, people were sitting on benches eating ice cream, all the cafés had put out tables and chairs, I only wore a skirt and a t-shirt as I do every day when the sun shines and the weather is nice.

But when I left to go back home (it's only a seven minute walk) it started to pour down. Everyone was taking shelter under the eaves (who brings their umbrella on such a nice day?) really, everyone! at a certain point people were standing under the eaves on both sides of the street pointing at me and laughing and yelling things like 'that's a real girl!' or 'She's got spirit!' or other half funny things at me there I was walking completely alone in the broad street.

I felt really ridiculous when I was walking there... even outside my flat people were sheltering and when I went to the door people asked me if I was giving up my journey, and I said 'no I'm living here' and then they started laughing again.

Now I've been home for 20 minutes and it has of course stopped raining Just my kind of luck!
At least I don't need to take a shower later on

]]> ~RosieProbert http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/17645212/ http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/17645212/ Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:08:11 PDT It's all gray here, and quite boring because the city seems to have been evacuated or something, I feel quite alone I can't even hear my neighbours...

Oslo was great! Sun, snow and nice temperatures just around he freezing point; not too cold, not too hot.

I just uploaded some pictures from my first skiing trip at Frognerseteren in Oslo. Just remember to full view the pictures, otherwise they don't say very much! I even uploaded a picture of me

Enjoy!

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]]> ~RosieProbert http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/17427183/ http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/17427183/ Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:02:17 PDT I got my first encounter with Belgium through Hugo Claus' novel 'The sorrow of Belgium' which I found in my fathers library when I was 16. The same summer I left for a one year school exchange in Flanders, the northern part of Belgium, Hugo Claus' Belgium. And I stayed.
Although I didn't know him personally or even met him I feel like I knew him through his writing, and actually I miss him... I learned Dutch through his poems, I made a web blog about one of his book once. Hugo was really a big part of my literary life here in Belgium and it is a shame that he is dead. Such a big talent.
He was not only a writer of novels; but he also wrote poems, short stories, plays, film scenarios, TV-shows, comic strips, he was a painter and an actor.

He was an artist.

I guess it sounds stupid, but these last three years I've been living here in Belgium I've always had one dream. A dream of interviewing Hugo Claus. But I always knew that he wouldn't even care if I called or sent a letter. Who am I anyway, just another literature student who like his books and poems? Well I guess I never would have been able to explain to him how much he actually meant for me and for my experience of the country and the language.

For the past years he had Alzheimer's disease, and yesterday he asked to be put out by euthanasia. I was really in chock when I first heard the news yesterday, I even forgot to eat and went to bed with a really bad head ache. I guess I am able to accept it more today and that's why I write this blog now. Yesterday I couldn't write anything, especially not about Hugo.

If you ever come across one of his books or poems, pleas read it and think about the genius behind it and please understand what a loss this is to the whole Dutch-speaking world. We lost our voice yesterday morning.

]]> ~RosieProbert http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/17083033/ http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/17083033/ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:24:38 PST Spring is upon us here in Belgium, today we have 12 degrees (Celsius) and sun. I remember my February days back in Norway, with snow and cold winds and I actually miss it...
I'm planning to go biking this weekend, I hope my boyfriend will have time to go with me, then we can make a trip following the canal from Leuven to Mechelen, that's a really nice route, I'll post some pictures next week...

Bye for now, take care and see you soon!
~RosieProbert

]]> ~RosieProbert http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/16811069/ http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/16811069/ Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:46:05 PST We were just another group of tourists, but hey, that's just fun!
Most of the time I was running to catch up with the group because I would stay back to take pictures without people on them (which is almost impossible when you are in such a big group) but some of them are quite good I think.
Well, now I have to make a selection and upload my pictures. The only problem is that I can't quite recall what the different things were, I mean; I took a picture of a house and now I can't remember which museum/theatre/house/building this was, so if anyone can help me I would be very happy! just comment the picture and give some information (if you want to..)

Take care everyone, see you soon
~rosie

]]> ~RosieProbert http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/16499516/ http://RosieProbert.deviantart.com/journal/16499516/ Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:04:39 PST
After only en hour and half I had finished, filled in 31 of the 40 questions (multiple choice where a wrong answer means a negative mark, you know, one of those exams where you don't dare to guess or pick an answer at random), and I came home took a look in my book, and I think I had them all right!!!!

Now I can relax, finally, after two weeks of studying and one week of exams I can finally rest! I've got one more exam (English proficiency) before I leave for a week Berlin! I really look forwards to it!

Take care everyone, see you soon!

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At the moment I'm just uploading pictures from my computer, but in a week or two (when my exams are done) I'll give you some more up-to-date pictures of Belgium...

As you might have noticed I don't usually work on my pictures in Photoshop or any other program, just because I like the colours and details the way they are.

Bye for now,
RosieProbert

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