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Zonia
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[2005-03-06 12:20:51 +0000 UTC]
"The big three killed my baby"
(United Kingdom)
# Statistics
Favourites: 662; Deviations: 90; Watchers: 32
Watching: 123; Pageviews: 15784; Comments Made: 2133; Friends: 123
# Interests
Favorite movies: Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless MindFavorite bands / musical artists: Led Zeppelin, White Stripes, the Raconteurs, Muse, Placebo, Kasabian,
Favorite games: Myst, Riven, Exile, Uru, Revalation. EoA wasn't up to much.. Recently loved Portal.
Tools of the Trade: Pencils, paper, acrylics, my camera (s), black fine liners
Other Interests: Art, Languages, Music.
# About me
Ex-A-Level artist who went into studying languages and is in denial about this. Dreamer, time waster, with a stunning caffiene addiction and huge amount of music obsession and snobbery.Went to Uni to try and get a paying job. Am now a graduate, and a starving artist making a living out of taking photos.
Operating System: Mac OSX.
Shell of choice: The path of the
# Comments
Comments: 216
Thanks for the watch!
deviantART muro drawing
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I get my very own thank you drawing? Eee! Decided I liked your work a lot, I've been meaning to experiment for a while and looking at your sketches I've realised I've got a long way to go. You make it look so easy! Any tips for a very rusty artist?
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Pretty rusty myself...Thanks though. I just keep at it when I can. Carry a sketchbook everywhere and try to "grow" from time to time to build on what I know or remind me what I forgot. On-line tut's are great for learning the software but nothing beats paper(yet)
If you saw anything specific you liked or wanted to know I would be happy to share!
Thanks again!
CW
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I only did a tiny bit of digital work. When I first joined DA, I was a whiny 14 year old and art was only a side-line thing.. graduated into taking photos as it was quicker and easier to keep going with my (non art related) degree. I was much more of a pens and pencils person. I think what I admire about your work is how spontaneous it looks, properly illustrating something I just made up has always been nigh on impossible for me. That and I cannot do perspective. Either way, keep in touch, not enough people take the time to have a chat on this website!
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perspective is hard. I have been studying it more lately...because I have to for a project I am working on.
The new sharpie pens are great for drawing and copic if they're around and you can afford them. Growing up I almost exclusively used pencil. It was the only medium I was comfortable in. I doodle a lot then find the drawing in the doodle so it's more like sculpting with lines than drawing and I find it has more energy too.
Agreed too many introverts unwilling to chat here!
Keep drawing!
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Just heard about the huge earthquake in Japan today. I hope you are okay!
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I'm fine, hundreds of miles away from the epicentre and I still felt it, which was the strangest half an hour of my life. Going from not sure if i'd just sat through an earthquake, to worrying if my friends in Tokyo were ok, because they were reporting something huge, to realising i'd felt the same earthquake as them...
Buisness as usual down here, which shocks me as the news is horrible. Everyone I know is accounted for, but not sure if everyone has heard from family yet.
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Thank goodness, I double checked where you were at after sending the message and realized you were a bit further away. Have you been through many earthquakes before?
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In England, we've had 3 in my lifetime. All of them I slept through, and they only registered at 3 on the scale, if that. This is the first one ive been awake for, for us it was at most a 3. So the first one i've noticed. Very strange. It wasn't a strong pulling from one side to another, more like the room swaying.
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Ah, I imagined that England wouldn't be too much of a hotbed of earthquake activity. I live in Southern California so we have had a few big ones in the past, but any time I meet people from other areas that don't have earthquakes they always seem rather disturbed by the earth shaking.
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We're very boring at home.
And hearing about people who live in deserts, living here on a massive faultline... i'm not upset about how boring home is at all!
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Haha, as you do! What were you searching for?
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Hi Zonia! I'm Gabby and we're both members of UnSeenArtists.
This is in relation to the translation of the FAQ in Spanish [link]
Would you feel insulted or get angry if I correct it? I'm studding Translation at the University and Spanish is my mother tongue.
I think it would be best to consult you since you did take the time to translate it 
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No, this is great. Spanish is my degree but i'm far from perfect and would love the corrections to know where i'm going wrong.
De dónde eres?
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Soy de Buenos Aires, Argentina ^w^
I'm really grateful for giving me this chance! I'll do my best!
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No, it's really fine! I'd love to get better at translating. My University is not the best in the world for what I want it to be, but i'm more than half way through my degree so there's not much point in quitting.
Nunca he estado en un pais hispanohablante para más de algunas semanas, entonces necesito practicar mi fluidez.
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Well, I'm half way to getting my Master's Degree, but I still have a long way to go
Plus, I've never even left my country. I should really practice my English (with native speakers, of course 
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Well good luck with everything! I'm currently living abroad. It's hard. It's hard to push myself to keep learning with native speakers, too, because where i'm living has a lot of Europeans and we share English as something of a lingua franca. I'm just here to learn Japanese, not teach you all..
Pero en mis clases de gramática hay una chica mexicana y con ella, trato de utilizar español. Pienso que a veces, a ella le gusta la oportunidad para decir cosas sobre nuestra vida aquí que la mayoría de la gente no puede entender!
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How I envy you! 
Me alegró muchisimo haberte conocido. Sos una persona muy interesante y te deseo toda la suerte del mundo en tus estudios. Sobretodo te quiero agradecer la buena onda que tenés conmigo
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eee, gracias! Es siempre interesante hablando con otros que aprenden idiomas extranjeros (El idioma, no? La lengua.. siempre tengo problemas recordándolos..)
Cuando tengo tiempo echaré un vistazo a tu galería tambien, desgracidamente... no he tenido tiempo hasta ahora!
Y también suerte en tus estudios, no tendrás probelmas con inglés, pienso!
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Creo que en la oración sería mejor hablar de "lenguas" (aprender distintas lenguas extranjeras). Igual, si te soy sincera, nadie podría decir que está mal porque la diferencia entre lengua, idioma y lenguaje la saben solo los lingüistas (yo tengo que ir al diccionario para estar segura 
Te entiendo completamente, yo también se lo que es estar ocupada, cansada y con falta de tiempo
I WISH I didn't have any problems with English, but it's all a matter of practice and effort. Thanks!
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Heh, aquí experimiento tantas dificultades en mantener mis lenguas seperadas- siempre estoy mezclando palabras en Japones en mis frases... Me duele la cabeza constantemente!
Estudio linguística y está bastante dificíl explicar las diferencias porque cada lengua tiene una distición distinta de lo que consiste una u otra. Que es un dialecto?
But anyway..
You don't have any problems at all with tenses, and what you type sounds very natural, unlike my dodgy noun/adjective agreements and my tendency to make up words! I think you'll do fine.
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Te super entiendo; justamente estoy posponiendo aprender alemán porque sé que me lo voy a estar confundiendo con el inglés (yo sé que es bobo, pero cierto
About your question related to dialect, I just took this from the net: It refers to a variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors, such as social class. Eg: "Y'all" and “You guys”; “Hello” and “Hullo”; “Tu sabes que te amo, niño” y “Vos sabés que te amo, purrete”. Then, there is also another meaning: A language socially subordinated to a regional or national standard language. Eg: Spanish is a dialect from Latin.
I hope I helped at least a little bit! ^w^
Thanks!
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Ah, you see i've studied this and while those are all valid points-
Nobody is really sure! Each language sets the limits of what a dialect is differently. A patois in French is a completely different thing to a dialect in English, despite roughly translating the same. And i'd argue that, despite knowing Spanish, I can't read Latin (Can make some educated guesses) meaning that despite the relation, they are very much separate languages.
Very few books on linguistics would be happy calling Spanish a dialect.
Y alemán? No puedo leer nada en la lengua..
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Gracias por el fav
tienes una increíble galería
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Pues, muchas muchas gracias! Leí que español no es tu lengua materna, es que estudio idiomas and I tend to get a bit carried away...
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De nada ^^
It's okay, you're helping me learn
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Entonces olvidaré el hecho de que soy inglesa.
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