Text 1547, 66 rader
Skriven 2006-12-01 04:57:50 av Roger Nelson (1:3828/7.0)
   Kommentar till text 1546 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
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Carol Shenkenberger wrote in a message to Roger Nelson:

> Works!  Heck, my husband calls a bra a 'boobie catcher' so he aint no
> better!

RN> I prefer to call it something else.  (-:[

 CS> Hehe forgive the old messages, but we just got back in port and
 CS> I've been remiss here with my finefun.

Welcome back!

 CS> Now Roger, can you print what you call them?

Trapped like a rat on a sinking ship!  Uh, I'd rather not.  My conscience
(don't know if it's that so much as it is decorum) can be a terrible thing when
it wants to.

 CS> Just a difference in style.  English can be rather 'blunt' in
 CS> comparison to other languages.  Take just the term 'walking' in
 CS> Japanese as compared to english.  In Japanse, the essense is to
 CS> push yourself along the world (the rest of the world and it's
 CS> position is central and you change to it;s pattern). Conceptually,
 CS> in english, the earth is static and you are forcing it to change,
 CS> or that is how the Japanese percieve the difference of our concept
 CS> (such I am told from a language teacher here).

But it's the only form of time-travel we have!

 CS> Japanese people who speak english a bit, are very forgiving. 
 CS> Japanese people who speak no english, will try hard to understand
 CS> and generally assume you just put the words you know in the wrong
 CS> order and not be upset even if you accidently say something
 CS> terribly rude due to position of the words.  A smile goes a very
 CS> long way.  So does a confused look <g>.

I sometimes forget I'm taking my life in my hands (not literally) when posting
in Fidonet.

 CS> Oh I have, but we seem to not have tripped up any people.  Perhaps,
 CS> we've helped a few see the variation.  The USA is a big place and
 CS> we can trip up just native 'USA' speakers easy enow (phonetic, real
 CS> word where I come from, just means 'enough' so nothing special
 CS> there).

I do it all the time because English was my favorite subject all through school
and I often frustrate my "friends" by correcting their grammar.  Once in
awhile, though, I make a mistake and they have no qualms about correcting me,
but the difference is that I thank them instead of getting either frustrated or
mad.

 CS> Enow though brings to mind 'at a time' and 'ere enow' meaning
 CS> almost a 'once upon a time' but of a more definate real life
 CS> meaning but of the past brought to the fore in relevance.  I
 CS> suspect most hearing it actually said would think it 'here now'
 CS> (close sound) but thats not quite the semantics of it in my childer
 CS> time.

I don't believe semantics existed when I was a child.  (-:


Regards,

Roger 
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