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Skriven 2007-05-21 16:03:13 av alexander koryagin
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Ärende: Re: MAY 14-2007
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From: "alexander koryagin" <koryagin@erec.ru>

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Hi, PETER COGGON! How are you?
on Monday, 14 of May, you wrote to ALEXANDER KORYAGIN
about "MAY 14-2007"

AK>> I think it must be something easier; although sometimes this liquids
AK>> are really hard. Once I tried to use such a substance (a spray)
AK>> against larvas of Colorado beetle. Some potato leaves had not
AK>> tolerated the attack. But those substance was not a repellent. It was
AK>> a substance to kill flies. ;)

PC>   You have the Colorado beetle? Really?    You better be careful with
PC> what you are spraying,  some of that stuff had bad beginings, and
PC> reminds me of agent orange.  Watch a friend from primarly school who
PC> had a summer job doing lawns etc, loose his hair after it turned white,
PC> and now he is dead.  Supposed to be safe....and now on the TV, they are
PC> pushing enviromental friendly products, after the fact.  Gotta make
PC> me laugh.

But it is hardly possible to fight Colorado beetle (especially it's larva)
manually. It is tiresome and ineffective; in addition  you have go very
often along the potatoes beds and the ground become pressed as a stone;
whereas a farmer imho have to tramp the land as little as possible. But now
I have bought a chemical designed against this beetle. Although there is no
any need to grow potatoes I do it  because it is nice to go to my country
cottage in spring and have some physical exercises on fresh air and take a
sunbath. ;)

AK>> What is RV?

PC>   Sorry Alexander.   People have RVs  < Recreational Vehicles>
PC> trailers they tow behind a properly equipped vehicle.  Like a home on
PC> wheels. In Europe they call them caravans.   Sorry about that.

It's ok, quite a lot people in Russia have a car trailer. Another matter is
how to call it. ;-) "Recreational Vehicle"! Wow! ;)

AK>>> cigarette type. The French Gitanes imho is perfectly fitting against
AK>>> mosquitoes. I tried to smoke it when I lived in France for some time.
AK>>> ;-)

AK>> I doubt that birds define the number of mosquitoes. Imho they eat a
AK>> small part of them only. The other part dies from hunger. ;-)

PC>    I'll still leave it to the birds.  They used to show up here in a
PC> mass cloud and clear the flying bugs.  Haven't seen them in a few
PC> years, but then we all know what happened to them.

What?


AK>> How much time can man be in the water? For example  in summer? What is
AK>> the temperature of the water?

PC>   I think it matters where in any lake one jumps in.   Further down, it
PC> does get cooler, and into the 15c and lower.   In waters like sand
PC> bottoms the temperatures are nice....here in my location it has hit 20c
PC> and higher but then there comes the water quality warnings, and no
PC> swimming.

You mean that it is polluted with sewage? Such a big lake... How deep Simcoe
is?

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AK>>> I always wonder  when I see a big lake with fresh water and not a
AK>>> single river is flowing out of it. Probably it has some underground
AK>>> water drain.

PC>   River in the south end flows out of Lake Simcoe, going towards
PC> Toronto.

According to my map vice versa. The river which goes through Bradford begins
not far from Tottenham, and the one which goes through the Sutton begins not
far from Newmarket. May be Encarta Atlas is wrong.

AK>> Simcoe. On the map there are some rivers inflowing it but there are
AK>> any outflowing, except for small man-made canals.

AK>> There is some sense in the fantastic film "Back to the Future". The
AK>> professor finally made his dream - the steam train which could travel
AK>> through
AK>> time. ;) What a romanticism - to push the level and realise a huge
AK>> amount of steam around, making everyone to run away. ;-)

PC>   I remember in the Scotland, the Flying Scot ... when it reached steam
PC> and had a blow-out it got attention.   Oh they are still big and
PC> beautiful to me.   I just love the smell of coal burning in the boiler
PC> and the ride.

BTW the big steam engines of the late century have not yet been scrapped in
Russia. Many of them are stored in some depots and every modern railway
station in Russia has on it's territory a special pump to provide them with
water. From one side it can be considered "just in case", but from another
side imho they feel sorry to scrap such a nice workable enginery.

AK>> I think that ideal language is the one when you pronounce the same
AK>> what is written by letters. Every letter has to have a definite sound;
AK>> and it is not necessary to see one thing, but speak another. BTW the
AK>> English language is also full of such a gaucheries. I think that at
AK>> long last people will invent a new language that will be nice and
AK>> logical for all people. Anyone will be able to learn it spending much
AK>> less time.

PC>   They are trying hard to reach this goal.   Maybe one of these days it
PC> will be a reality.    I like saying words too that when pronounced are
PC> written the same way.   Got in trouble in school for this, but never
PC> cured me.  Still write as I hear it.   < color instead of colour >.

The Esperanto language was invented. It is logical, quite simple, sounds
beautifully. The only terrible thing imho that the polish inventor made bad
alphabet inserting into Latin letters many others with "^" sings. It IS NOT
universal - not every typewriter or even computer word processor is
capable to type Esperanto  texts. This shortcoming imho slow down strongly
the Esperanto spreading.
"BTW "color" is grammatically correct American spelling for British
"colour". The American English was slightly modernized to make it more
logical.


[...Cogito ergo sum]
Bye PETER!
Alexander
fido7.english-tutor 2007


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