Where has everyone gone?

04.04.06, 13:10
No posts since 11.42 yeasterday?
    • varsovian Re: Where has everyone gone? 04.04.06, 16:08
      Bit sad, huh?
      • usenetposts Re: Where has everyone gone? 04.04.06, 18:25
        No-one's sadder about it that I am. We're being beaten by the Canadian group.
        • nasza_maggie Re: Where has everyone gone? 05.04.06, 00:23
          Hmmmm it's not the quantity it's the quality boys!

          I'm in the middle of refusrbishing the business. And I think it's all the
          spring and the Easter rush is starting too that is making everyone busy.

          And not enough snotty gossip in the Sun!!! smile))
          • ms.jones Re: Where has everyone gone? 05.04.06, 00:45
            I'm taking photographs, finding out about cameras and lenses, starting a
            photoblog, learning Greek and looking after my mum.

            Dave, I'll use your language method when I'm ready for vocabulary lists of 25.
            The idea of distilling sounds good! I'm at a stage of learning to read and
            write basic phrases using the Greek alphabet - unit 2 of 'teach yourself' book.
            I'll start a list after I've gone through a few units. All my words and phrases
            are on little cards so far; one side with the phrase in Greek and English, the
            other side with phonetic transcription.
            • usenetposts Re: Where has everyone gone? 05.04.06, 10:18
              OK, so, which kind of Greek are you learning? Modern, Ancient or Koine?

              I am learning Ancient Greek myself, on and off, and the method does well for
              that language. I'll be learning Chinese soon (I've ordered the course) but the
              method may need adapting for Chinese as there is a whole lot of other stuff you
              have to do with Chinese, like remember the stroke orders in the characters,
              identify the radicals, remember which of five tonal variants the word has, as
              well as the word itself and its meaning.

              I'm getting sick of being sick of China and its success. There is a saying, if
              you can't beat them, join them, and if I were to master Chinese I would
              probably be the only Chinese speaking auditor in this country, and that could
              have quite positive market implications.
              • ms.jones Re: Where has everyone gone? 06.04.06, 00:04
                > OK, so, which kind of Greek are you learning? Modern, Ancient or Koine?

                The introduction of my book tells me that I am learning "the standard spoken
                language used today in Greece. It is called 'demotic' meaning 'popular'
                or 'everyday' language, as opposed to 'katharevousa', a form of Modern Greek,
                which is almost extinct."

                Does it mean I'm not learning modern Greek? This is very confusing.
                So I may not know what language I'm learning to speak but I can say in it:
                Thistihos, tora ksero mono anglika.

                > you can't beat them, join them, and if I were to master Chinese I would
                > probably be the only Chinese speaking auditor in this country, and that could
                > have quite positive market implications.

                Sounds like a very smart move. They should start teaching it in schools smile
          • usenetposts Re: Where has everyone gone? 05.04.06, 10:09

            nasza_maggie napisała:

            > Hmmmm it's not the quantity it's the quality boys!
            >

            Yes, I saw the Canadians forging ahead, and I went to see why, and it appears
            they have become the picnic area of soup nazi, marimax and all the other
            polonia group rentboys. They're welcome to them.

            > I'm in the middle of refusrbishing the business. And I think it's all the
            > spring and the Easter rush is starting too that is making everyone busy.

            I think we're finally able to go outside, so people are actually doing that.

            >
            > And not enough snotty gossip in the Sun!!! smile))
            >

            There's always the News of the World.
            • ianek70 Re: Where has everyone gone? 05.04.06, 11:55
              usenetposts napisał:

              > Yes, I saw the Canadians forging ahead, and I went to see why, and it appears
              > they have become the picnic area of soup nazi, marimax and all the other
              > polonia group rentboys.

              I just had a look at the Kanada forum, because I thought I'd learn interesting
              stuff about polar bears and huge enormous trees.
              Minimax is indeed there. For obvious reasons he doesn't start any threads or
              enlighten folk with his knowledge or opinions, and just confines himself to the
              occasional bitchy comment about other people:
              forum.gazeta.pl/forum/72,2.html?f=23005&w=38981013&a=39006959
              It's interesting that he thinks Polish emigrants are lazy because they expect
              to be presented with a big bag of jobs as soon as they get off the plane, but
              his only major contribution to this forum has been several long and boring
              posts about how he got angry when nobody in a British bank spoke Polish smile
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