시도하지 않으면 얻는 게 없다
attempt-PRENEG not-be-IF get-PRESPART NOMINALIZER there-is-not
If nothing is attempted [then] there is no getting.
“Nothing ventured, nothing gained.” I was puzzled by the particle 게 for a long time, until finally I decided (perhaps correctly, perhaps not) that it was a contraction of 것이, which is a nominalizing particle (attached to the preceeding present participalized verb) with a subject case marker. The grammar was hard, but the meaning pretty obvious.
I’m going to gain nothing this weekend, because I’m venturing nothing. Bleah.
Day: October 6, 2012
Caveat: Taking the Subway Across Mars from Manhattan to Shanghai
I'm not sure I like this video in every respect, but it's definitely interesting.
PLAN OF THE CITY from Joshua Frankel on Vimeo.
After I got home from work, I took a nap. A solid, deep-sleeping nap. That's almost unheard of, in my current lifestyle. Definitely a sign that I'm under the weather in some way. Grr.