私はシライだ。　これの食じポケモンは何か？
カクレオンにあげってけど今、カクレオンがいないからさびしい。にげったと思う。

Needed an excuse to practice my Japanese. XD
That is one happy Mawile...

Yes, he is.

Unfortunately, I do not understand much Japanese yet. I can read a few basic sentences and I can sound out the Hiragana and Katakana alphabet.

I did understand the first sentence and most of the symbols of the second sentence. Are you asking what Pokémon is he eating?

Yup. That and I'd offer him some keckleons, but I think they've ran off.

I took Japanese through highschool and haven't really used it since; good luck in learning it though. =]

He's eating Meowth. Though those Kecleons would have been nice too.

High School? Cool. I was learning my Japanese in college. I might take it again because the Chinese class is off the main campus. ^^;

Ah, okay.
Heh, the class I was in had to take lessons from the School of Languages in year 12.
We only found out the week before the year started, because the internal lessons got cancelled.
It was more expensive, and kinda a pain. But the teacher was better, so it balanced out.

That's good. I wish I could have taken Chinese or Japanese in High School. At least the bright side was that I took Spanish for three years and now I'm in a Spanish class in college. Since I had three years of Spanish in High School, I'm the best Spanish speaker in class and I can get my work done without much studying. Though I did learn how to count past one hundred along with new vocabulary words.

Neat. Heh, it's kinda amusing that Japanese necessitated learning numbers above ten thousand thanks to their currency. @_@
So, are you taking linguistics at college?
My major is in Biotech. =3

Yeah, I was able to count ridiculously high in both Chinese and Japanese before I took that Spanish Class. It was only funny because my Spanish skills are better than my Japanese and Chinese skills combined. It's just that I couldn't count. ^^;

And yes, I am taking linguistics. I find it very fun to study language.

Biotech, huh? That sounds cool. Especially because I'm into Biology.

Language is a very interesting thing; I just can't get my head around it sometimes. XD
Biotech is pretty cool. Except depending on how you look at it, it could also be extremely unethical and dangerous. Hurrah for transgenic organisms, and potentially 'designer babies'.
Personally, I'm more interested in the virology and medical (well, growing organs in petri dishes, etc.) side of it.

Yeah. it's very fun to learn other languages. The one that gives me the most pronunciation difficulties is French. If I'm not accidentally dropping my Rs, chances are that my Rs will sound like strong Hs. XD

Transgenic organisms are quite strange. XD. Who knew you could make a pig with a human heart? As for designer babies, I fear that one. While it is nice to correct genetic problems like Huntington's Disease and Hemophilia, I would not like anyone to alter the child's entire genetic code just to fit the parents' needs. That's just not right.

You could grow organs in Petri Dishes? That, I never knew.

Well, it's mostly just arteries now. I did overstate that ^_^;. but given the advancements in that technology, growing an organ could potentially be done. Or at least, the technology could be developed. some would be problematic though; lungs, for example would be ridiculously hard to grow. but smaller things could probably be done sometime.


I gotta agree, getting rid of some of the nastier genetic diseases would be lovely. Hell, if the structure of some of the surface proteins of out white blood cells were changed, there are some diseases that could stop affecting people. HIV, for one, requires some particular binding sites to 'invade' T cells.

Designer babies are just an outright bad idea, though.. Hell, even Karyotyping could prove detrimental to some people. If you're more prone to heart attacks, for example...

I can imagine that growing entire organs would be difficult. I hope they will one day pull it off to reduce the need for organ donors.

And as far as I know, the HiV problem is already starting to take care of itself in Africa. I haven't read much about it, but I did learn that HIV is running so rampantly, that some people are developing immunities to it. It's sad that many people had to die to reach that level of immunity, but at least we can study the structures of the immune people to see how they differ from the rest of the population.

I don't think I've heard of Karyotyping. What is it?

Karyotyping just shows the number and length of chromosomes a person has. Basically, it shows some genetic diseases caused by extra chromosomes (e.g., trisomy 21).
Or if a person has an abnormality in their genes - well, a more visible one, it becomes readily apparent.
If someone never knew they had said diseases, it's possible that it could have an effect on them.
Not nearly as useful as just sequencing genes outright, though. I think I derped on that one as well. XD
Have been rather tired lately; I screwed up my sleep cycle.

Oh, alright.

And that's okay with being tired, my sleep cycles are always screwed.

And it never helps either. XD
I have to push back my wakeup time about 7 hours before uni is back. T_T

Yikes. That sounds like a pain. XD