I'm In An Excl Video! :o
Entry posted by Merch Gwyar
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That's me at minute 6:19, faffing around with my hat. It had spent two months on a bedpost, staying beautifully upright. After a week of being shoved in a bag and carried around half of Wales and England, it was decidedly floppy. What Excl didn't film was my friend, Saya, reaching into her bag and getting out her mini sketchpad (she's an artist). She tore out a page of stiff paper and rolled it up. I balanced that on my head for the rest of the day, hidden inside my hat, keeping the damn thing sticking up. :D
(I've since washed it and now it appears to have got the idea and sticks up without artist sketch-paper.)
But back to the plot. I'M IN AN EXCL VIDEO! Wowowowowowowowowow!
Thank you to the denizens of Sal's chat channel for telling me. I nipped in, mid-sentence, from writing my work blog. I'd been into Canting, but for the first time in months, it was completely empty. I was looking for a Spanish speaker. The 19th colonial Mexican army was called Realistas. Is that the plural? As in do I correctly write, 'the Realista General' or 'the Realistas General'? Google translate failed me, as it just told me that the word is 'realistic' and stop being a noob. Sal's chat channel also failed me on the subject of 19th century Mexico, but were right on the ball with Excl videos. Thanks cariadiau! :P
Edit: For those of you who feared that they might lose sleep over this, I have the answer. My Spanish friend has just informed me that 'realista' does, indeed, mean 'realistic'. However, it can be used to mean 'royalist'. Spaniards today view that context as a kind of noob word though and prefer to use 'monárquico' instead. A 's' on the end of a Spanish word means that it's a plural 95% of the time. So 'realista' = 'royalist' and 'realistas' = 'royalists'. You can all relax again.
Edit 2: For those visiting from Blogger, have you been having trouble with it today? It's just taken me over 6 hours to write a single blog. Ok, the subject matter had to be learned, dissected into the important bits and written about, but that's just history and writing. What really took the time (other than finding out about Realistas) was blogger itself. I've never had this trouble with it before (and I use it every week day), but it kept crashing, not letting me look at previews, or just simply telling me that the service wasn't available, whenever I tried to save my progress. Just a head's up to anyone who uses Blogger, who hasn't blogged yet today. Just save your work before you press 'publish', just in case.
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