Miscellaneous

[saliotthomas]

I love this word and it toke me years to prononce it propely for it was not made to fit a French tongue.

I thought it could serve as a place to expresse different thoughts or experiences that would sound too trivials in a single thread?

Looking back on what i read recently,i found a recurrence of French locations and specialy Paris and this lead me to think that often in my readings there is a background paterne that i do not intensionaly seek.
Also life seems to incidiously interfer and events,smells,or words recently experienced keep poping up in my books as if called for by the mysterious power of the author.
Does it make any sense or am i just babbling.

[titania7]

Thomas,
I think this thread is a splendid idea.

I, too, love the word miscellaneous.

And I daresay the effort you put into learning to pronounce miscellaneous has paid off as I'm quite certain you must sound immensely charming saying it! ;)

Best wishes always,
Titania

[Colette Jones]

Looking back on what i read recently,i found a recurrence of French locations and specialy Paris and this lead me to think that often in my readings there is a background paterne that i do not intensionaly seek.
I've found that a bit with books based around the WWII years. It never appealed to me until I read The Welsh Girl a couple years ago, and now I appear to be drawn to that era and situation. I don't like actual descriptions of warfare though, just that the situation of WWII exists as part of the story.

[saliotthomas]

I found a photo of Eric and Harris on the net.


http://bogomip.net/images/muppets.jpg

[ferns_dad]

miniscus I think is an innaresting word, also

[Liam]

Which one is Eric?

[beelzebubbles]

They look so cuddlesome!

[Liam]

They look so cuddlesome!
Yeah, but once you're in the same room with them and the door is shut tightly behind you--THEN there is no escape and then they've got you.

[Mirabell]

my mother always said to never be alone with translators, never go with them even if they offer sweets.

[e joseph]

miniscus I think is an innaresting word, also
Pick up the use of "innaresting" from the Neil Young biography? That dude (the biographer I'm too lazy to look up) was all over that word.

[Daniel del Real]

I found a photo of Eric and Harris on the net.




:D You are good finding cool pictures about members of the forum. Keep on going!

[ferns_dad]

Yeah, but once you're in the same room with them and the door is shut tightly behind you--THEN there is no escape and then they've got you.



scuba also

[saliotthomas]

:D You are good finding cool pictures about members of the forum. Keep on going!

Well,thanks Daniel,to be honest,it's an old photo of them,they were in their prime at the time :D.

[saliotthomas]

This could have being called,

Is using the first singular persone in begining a post rude?

I noticed that a lot of the post on the net don't start with "I read this or i did that" but the more business like "read this done that" or a bit like a robot.
"Read this book and think not much of it but maybe would change my mind ect;.."bibibib bip
I was wondering if it come from what we were taught in school, about the rudeness of using I ,like it's putting oneself in front.
Could it be so?
Then is it better to sound pretencious or like C3PO in star wars?

[accidie]

This could have being called,

Is using the first singular persone in begining a post rude?

I noticed that a lot of the post on the net don't start with "I read this or i did that" but the more business like "read this done that" or a bit like a robot.
"Read this book and think not much of it but maybe would change my mind ect;.."bibibib bip
I was wondering if it come from what we were taught in school, about the rudeness of using I ,like it's putting oneself in front.
Could it be so?
Then is it better to sound pretencious or like C3PO in star wars?
(I) think it's just a shortcut. Oddly, in speech the 'I' is omitted only in reply to a question: What did you do today? Read a book.
The polite way to avoid using 'I' in British English is the same as in French: 'one doesn't know what to do.' In American English 'you' is sometimes used--'you just don't know what to do'--but I don't know whether that's politeness or assuming that the reader or listener is bound to feel the way the speaker does.

[hdw]

Here's one for the French-speakers here. Non-French-speakers are allowed to look puzzled.

A firm decided that in-house language lessons for its staff would be a good idea, so they hired a French teacher. At the beginning of the first lesson the teacher asked if anyone had done any French before, and someone at the back raised their hand and shouted "Je!"

Harry