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 #275 (permalink) Sun Sep 17, 2006 12:18 pm I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum! |
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Hi to all!
Pamela, I will. (Not, of course, in echange for you informing us about your application process. But…  )
Dark, I really love you (and animals too)!
And this website! And the true Sun! And… ... and ... !!!
… Your small bird…  Yes... when we lost our pets... it's never forgotten…
But, nothing doing. Let's now have a positive look...
Many nations have some celebrations when people let folded pigeons in the sky…for the best, symbolically… for happiness….. don’t be sad, Mba…
And... thank you, indeed.
Michael!
Good Sunday to have classes, isn’t it?
Oh… That poor fearful young Piranhas…
In Russian we have the saying 'a cornered rabbit' – that means that ANY (even quite calm and peaceful) animal or human being pressed or scared too much, can become actually dangerous.
There are recorded cases when rabbits, having no other choice (to run away, to avoid), just bravely and desperately attacked foxes – and sometimes succeeded
Brilliantring?
I understand the meaning (of course ), but, I think there is not such an English word.
Is it German saying? (The reason I ask is that a ring itself is made of metal – gold, platinum, etc. You understand.)
Anyway, I am not that kind of women. Even though I have an inherited ring with four (natural and quite good, but not too large ) diamonds and a tiny ruby in the middle – I’m the third generation's woman in my family tree, who possesses it.
But actually I very rare put it on (and don’t love wear rings with gems at all).
By the way, I always look rather with the irony at women (and men ) being too care about external attributes of their status.
That’s really might be because lack of something in my head - that prevents me to be(come) a true bourgeois woman  Hopelessly…
| Quote: | | …and mostly worthful are that which have a red point on the forehead while being totally white at the rest of their body. |
…Large red spot, yes. I saw that fishes – snow-white, with bright red area on the head. Hmm, rather fearful image, as for me… But, maybe, I’m too sensitive
and it only should call us to some philosophical thinking - White Angel with bloody head … (not hands, thank God…)
Anyway, I’ve never seen a fish that would cost more than ?5,000 (that is less than $8,000).
By the way, can you give a rough estimation for the cost of a (young) Arab horse in Germany? (Arab-German )
Have a nice Sunday (… classes, ride, whatever )
Tamara
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| #277 (permalink) Sun Sep 17, 2006 21:28 pm I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum! |
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Hi Dark magicain!
Thank you for your complements! 
I must admit that I always am impressed from the pictures you often offer. But mostly impressive are the pictures about the kitchen you showed. Anyhow it is a bit of you, isn?t it?
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| #278 (permalink) Mon Sep 18, 2006 13:37 pm I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum! |
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Hi Michael!
| Quote: | | Are you interested in buying a horse, by the way? |
I think, life is never 'too short' to thiiiiink about
Just in case: are you going to clone your grey ladykin in the near future?
As I know, those great horses from Kuban (Southern Russia) are traditionally used for so-called Kremlin Horse Guards (actually, I don’t know how it is called in English).
They are very impressive (I saw how they work).
| Quote: | | You can get such horses for an amount between 2000 and 5000 Euros. |
As the UK is the country where having a horse is quite normal (in the small town area I live,
I know at least eight privately owned horses – and sometimes see them 'under saddle' slowly and stately going for a walk )
Once I asked a local man how much 'an ordinary horse' can cost and he said "about 2000 pounds".
By the way, I'm often faced with the fact that something that costs $15 in the US (for example, a particular book published by international Publishing House), - in the UK can cost exactly ?15 (!). Almost one and a half as much!
I suppose this is (also) because of "unit-thinking" - psychological phenomenon .
Living and working in the UK, I pay ?1 for a sandwich with the same feeling, as I would do that in the US, living, working and paying $1 for the same (exactly ) sandwich.
The same man added that proper horse maintenance is much more expensive.
Michael, are you sure with the verb? I myself actually don’t know what verb we should use for animals – are they trained or educated.
Thank you for your interesting answer!
Wishing your horse even more health and talents,
and (to you both ) new wonderful discoveries in her family-tree ,
Tamara
P.S. http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/complement.html
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| #280 (permalink) Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:42 am I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum! |
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| Tamara wrote: | | Quote: | | Are you interested in buying a horse, by the way? |
I think, life is never 'too short' to thiiiiink about
Just in case: are you going to clone your grey ladykin in the near future? |
Hi Tamara!
If you think about buying a horse you also should think about learning a new foreign language, which might be as difficult as a human language is. Isn?t that a challenge?
I myself don?t think about cloning my mare because the costs probably would be too high. Like your below mentioned relative said: thew maintenance of a horse is more expensive than the salary in order to get one. In this sense I never could achieve the amount I needed if I would clone her and sale the clone.
| Quote: | As I know, those great horses from Kuban (Southern Russia) are traditionally used for so-called Kremlin Horse Guards (actually, I don’t know how it is called in English).
They are very impressive (I saw how they work). |
Sorry, I think this is a missunderstanding.  That Kubinec, I mentioned, is a very specific stallion, an Arabian horse, which won lots of prizes on breeder shows and many of breeders bought its seeds in order to get its excellent characters.
| Quote: | Michael, are you sure with the verb? I myself actually don’t know what verb we should use for animals – are they trained or educated.
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I?m quite sure that education is the correct verb for what I mean as education is the basic presupposition for a successful training. You can figure out that if you try to lift the hoof of an uneducated horse.  When I bought my Arabian mare I didn?t consider this point, trained her and was proud how nice she behaved while training. Firstly when it came to expect something from her what she didn?t like I noticed what education of a horse means. 
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| #281 (permalink) Wed Sep 20, 2006 12:12 pm I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum! |
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Hi Michael!
| Quote: | | you also should think about learning a new foreign language |
Foreign?
It seems that I’ve learnt the 'dog language' with great ease, quite naturaly
Situations which I've happen to have experienced with (sometimes amusing, sometimes dangerous) allow me to be thinking that I could find common language with most dogs, even uneducated
(except well-trained guard-dogs while carrying out their job and heavy traumatised animals
And not with the troop of dogs that has a strong people-hated leader...
You maybe don't know that in many Russian cities/towns (and suburbs) there are such troops of half-wild dogs - and they are generally much more dangerous than "pure wild" animals...)
| Quote: | I think this is a missunderstanding.
That Kubinec, I mentioned, is a very specific stallion, an Arabian horse… |
Ah, yes, Michael, I’ve mistaken that because of its name that sounds to me similar to [KubAnets] = 'having origin from Kuban'
(By the way, in Russian 'Kubinec' = Cuban )
Now I know what you actually meant: http://www.vandansik.com/kubinec.html (sculptures)
( http://www.arabiandreams.net/index.htm )
Really great and noble animals 
About 'education' – I understand what you mean. ( Even though it's not a verb )
All well-bred (well-brought-up ) people know well that in many cases we should, have to and even need - to do what we actually don’t like to do.
And not to do – never! - what we would wish to do.
Some people even manage to not have 'impossible' (bad ) wishes at all! - and I knew some. Poor (high-bred) fellows!
See you,
Tamara
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| #282 (permalink) Wed Sep 20, 2006 14:21 pm What's wrong with "to educate"? |
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Hi Tamara!
I?m a bit confused!  What?s wrong with education/ to educate?
I mean, as even the translator babylon suggests to educate when I ask for correct translation of the German verb "erziehen"?
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| #285 (permalink) Wed Sep 20, 2006 22:20 pm You have the right to be wrong. You have the right to fail... |
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| Quote: | | I hate being wrong! |
Michael, I understand… As much as only one true perfectionist can understand another one.
But… we are trying to use actually foreign language and I will do continue 'using red color' as much as possible. Sure
Of course, you have the full right to return flowers
You have the right to be wrong.
You have the right to make mistakes.
You have the right to fail…
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Cheese? Hmm.
Well... | Quote: | "Cheese" used as a verb is not something one runs into every day. The oldest sense dates back to the 17th century, when "to cheese" meant simply "to become cheese." This usage is rare today, although I certainly felt as though I was becoming cheese in hour three of the recent remake of "King Kong." You know a movie has jumped the shark when people start applauding the giant slugs.
"Cheese" as a verb was also, in the mid-20th century, what the Oxford English Dictionary calls "school slang" meaning "to smile," probably from the classic photographer's instruction to "say cheese." ()
"Cheese it" did indeed arise as thieves' cant, or lingo, meaning "stop what you're doing" or, in the form "cheese it," to run away quickly, to "beat it." It first appeared in the early 19th century, but the derivation of "cheese" in this sense has never been certain. |
http://www.word-detective.com/0706B.html
Also:
http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Grose-VulgarTongue/c/cheese-it.html
( pardon my French )
Thanks, I didn't know that
See you,
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