All in the family

[Saritagudgl]

thanks for this good article..now i have clear picture about contain and container

[Babetara T]

Thanks Alan for this contentive essay. Yes, I am contented with the words content, contented and contentment. Great job. However am I right when saying that your essay was contentive for me?

Thanks
Babetara

[Kati Svaby]

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Hello Alan,

How did you bring us from the British TV programme on to the relationship of words.
As we learn I try another family of words.
love(n)(U)
1.affection: mother's love
2. a strong feeling: fall in love
3.enjoyment:love of cooking
4.(C)(n)person , thing, activity what you like my first love

(v)(T)
1. feel affection:We love each other.
2.like/enjoy:I love learning and reading./ I love to go out sitting in a cafe.
3. would love= very much like sth: The kids would love to hear you sing.

lovable(adj) =people find attractive =a lovable child
loveless= without love = a loveless marriage
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[Kati Svaby]

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Accidentally I clicked to "Send message" -
lovely(adj)=beautiful, attractive =She has a lovely voice.
........................=very enjoyable;wonderful:How lovely to see you!
........................=very kind, friendly(of a person) My teacher is a lovely man.
lovely (n)(old-fashioned)=lovely woman
lover(n)= a partner outside marriage: He denied he was her lover.
...................=(often in compounds)person who enjoys a particular thing: an art-lover
lovesick(adj)= unable to think clearly because they are in love. Romeo and Juliet
loving(adj) =feeling love and affection for sb.= a loving family
lovingly=He gazed lovingly at his grandchildren.

There are lot of idioms also.
Regards:
Kati Svaby
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

[Ibm]

Hi,

By reading your articles I'd started loving english language and now I'm desperate to learn proper english.

Ibrahim

[Pasban110]

First of all, thank you for this great article. I am contented so well.

I have this question: what is the difference between content and satisfy? Are they the same?

[Kati Svaby]

Hello ,

You mentioned there is a program on TV in the UK that traces the family of a ’personality’ through different generations.

It is very interesting to look for our ancestors and it isn’t a simple thing. One of my grandchildren got homework and a half of year for finding who were his ancestors. Of course our whole family united to help him.
I always knew that if we go back 160 years we find about 16 ancestors and some legends survived about them and the other’s went with them in their tomb.

Everybody has 2 parents, 4 grand-parents,-8 great grand-parents 16 g.g.grandparents.

My brother-in-law went to the cemetery to take a photo about the tomb where two of our great–grand-parents lie.I attach the photos of their tombstones.

So my 17 year-old grandchild has 16 g.g.grandparents.

One of my great grandfathers was born in 1829 and his wife was born in1838.They are the g.g.grandparents of my 17 year old grandchild who was born 1995. It is very short time in the history. Only 166 years with 16 ancestors

As my children got married late and if they would have gotten married in their twenties the difference could be only 156 years. 156 or 166 years is ridiculy short time in the history, and we should have looked for 16 ancestors. We didn’t find them.

And every family has secrets, has a black sheep. The moral lapse sometimes came to light or never find out.

I can say it because my 89 year-old grand mother disclosed a secret that she never loved my ’grandfather’ because she loved a youngman and this youngman loved her very much. She was 3 months pregnant with my father when she was forced to get married to a man whom she didn’t love and she couldn’t love him in her whole life.

When she told me her secret, she told me that my father forbade her to tell about anybody. But my grandmother wanted to share with me everything.

When I went home and told my mother, she told me that yes, she knows everything but I asked me to never tell my father that I know about it because he would be very angry at my grandmother.

As my grandmother was protestant, her father was a protestant pastor and the boy (my grandfather) was the child of an orthodfox Jewish family they never could get married. Both families protested agains it.

In that time to have a child before marriage it was an illegitimate thing and a great shame. The child who was illegitimate, the society excluded.

My father had been adopted by his god-mother and god-father. They liked him as he would have been own child but they were not rich so they couldn’t send him to university.

It was interesting that my father became a layer by his own efforts he was a correspondent student and he earned the money for learning.But his brothers never wanted to continue their study and became tailor, decorator.

When my grandmother told me that story I became very sad because after the WWII my parents never reaveled me that my beloved grandfather, my mother’s father was Jewish.

I could be 10 when I heard continually swearwords for Jewish people from my classmates. My parents told me that you never say swearwords about Jewish, Gipsy and peasants.

Once when one of my classmates told swearwords about the Jewish I told me also. She told me you can’t tell these words because you are Jewish also. I didn’t believe it. I was looking forward to getting home and I told my parents what happened. But they didn’t tell me that it isn’t true. They told me sit down. And asked me: Do you love your grandfather. I adored him, so I said of course: yes. And they told me what happened in the WWII. And they told me what a correct man was my grandfather who spent his half life in migration, because he aqueted two accused who participated in the 1919 Hungarian Soviet Republic.

To cut a long story short when my father’s mother( my grandmother) told me that my other grandfather was also Jewish I decided that I told my mother but nobody else. This will be my secret.

Before our marriage my poor husband told that there is something what he had to tell me that her mother is Jewish and whether it doesn’t mean problem to me. I breathed a sigh, I thought in myself there isn’t way out, but I didn’t say to him about our family. I don’t remember after how many years I told him the truth.

Lately I heard TV reports that not only my family concealed their Jewish religion from their children . After the WWII the people ’s fear of another reprisal didn’t have an end.

My grandchild stared in amazement because he didn’t know about anything. Why? –he asked –I don’t understand. The truth that I told my own children that they are half-Jewish when they were adult.

When my mother –in-law went to Israel to his brother I told everybody that she is in Switzerland. But I didn’t want to learn my children to tell lies and I had to hear that they say very normally 'our gammy is in Israel.'

The antisemitism began again- though I know that there was antisemitism in the Socialism also, but it was a penal offence. I was working in a factory and in the workshop the people always said: 'louse Jewish ' -they used these words as a conjunction.

I was happy that my grandchild didn’t understand but….
2 days ago happened something what is very dreadful. A local cultural authority declared on an official meeting that one of our best dramatic actors , is a louse Jewish and can’t play in his town this ’spieling’.
And on this official meating there were not one single people who would have protested against this declaration , everybody acknolodged it.

Even I had to mention in the last years Gypsies and a Gypsy child were killed by people of the ultraright wing.

These are facts and I don’t know what will happen in this country.

Regards:
Kati Svaby

my great grandfather


my great grandmother

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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.