On Feb 8, 2006, at 20:19, Elizabeth Ligeti wrote:
"You understand rugby don't
you?". I said I did. "Well," he said "think of it as being exactly
the same,
but with the health and safety people having had a go at it."
Very well put!! We understand that!!!
I've been reading the thread on American football with some amusement...
The similiarity to rugby was evident to me the first time I watched a
game, but so was the fact I couldn't make a head or tail of it anyway.
So I did what I used to do during my "English summer" (1968) -- got
blind drunk. And, yes, it did improve my understanding of the rules to
the same extent (I've been known to speak fluent German when blind
drunk, too). Unfortunately, the morning after, I *still* didn't
understand the rules, and had a bilinding headache to cope with
besides... :)
I was really happy when my understanding of English and American
English reached the point where I didn't feel I *had to* watch TV to
improve it, and reverted to print for my "window onto the native
world"...
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Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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