Re: [lace-chat] Re: This is for Real - humour

2004-06-05 Thread Weronika Patena
Weronika, The culture confuses ME, and I was born and raised here by very non-international parents! I'm not sure whether I should be happy that my problem isn't abnormal, or unhappy because that means it'll probably never go away... g Except for The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter,

Re: [lace-chat] Re: This is for Real - humour

2004-06-04 Thread Martha Krieg
Weronika, the problem of getting lost in conversation doesn't only occur when moving to a country with a different language! I'm sure it doesn't. I'm fine with most of the language, it's just the culture that confuses me. Especially when people my age start talking about music and movies

Re: [lace-chat] Re: This is for Real - humour

2004-06-01 Thread Weronika Patena
Hi everyone! I'm back from visiting my boyfriend for the long weekend, and I think I'll sit down and answer all of my accumulated Arachne email now. It's a great thing to do while waiting for my Matlab program to finish running and tell me what silly programming error I've made this time...

Re: [lace-chat] Re: This is for Real - humour

2004-06-01 Thread Weronika Patena
Weronika, the problem of getting lost in conversation doesn't only occur when moving to a country with a different language! I'm sure it doesn't. I'm fine with most of the language, it's just the culture that confuses me. Especially when people my age start talking about music and movies

Re: [lace-chat] Re: This is for Real - humour

2004-05-27 Thread Weronika Patena
! This is really horrible! I always thought this sort of thing was over earlier than the 60's... Tamara, was it like this in Poland too? Nope, and I doubt it had been like this in Poland even in 1860's... :) I thought so. Good... And the post WWII communist rule only strengthened

[lace-chat] Re: This is for Real - humour

2004-05-27 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
On May 27, 2004, at 14:56, Weronika Patena wrote: True, there doesn't seem to be, although I always thought that was just because I've never dealt with sex in Polish. Possibly a vicious circle: there's no ordinary language to talk about it, because nobody talks about it? (of course the idea of

Re: [lace-chat] Re: This is for Real - humour

2004-05-27 Thread Ruth Budge
Weronika, the problem of getting lost in conversation doesn't only occur when moving to a country with a different language! I come from England, have lived in Australia most of my life - and after all, both countries are supposed to speak the same language! However, after all these years, I

Re: [lace-chat] Re: This is for Real - humour

2004-05-26 Thread Steph Peters
On Tue, 25 May 2004 22:48:58 -0400, Tamara wrote: I also have some doubts about the text having been written by a woman; sounds to me more like something concocted by a man in a wet dream. I don't know who wrote this particular text, but its style certainly does not rule out a female author.

[lace-chat] Re: This is for Real - humour

2004-05-25 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
On May 25, 2004, at 14:12, Weronika Patena wrote: ! This is really horrible! I always thought this sort of thing was over earlier than the 60's... Tamara, was it like this in Poland too? Nope, and I doubt it had been like this in Poland even in 1860's... :) Polish women had always had to be