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| josht Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6452 days ago 635 posts - 857 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch | Message 34 of 60 02 December 2008 at 4:53pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
So you enjoy making a nuisance of yourself. Okay, then. Go make a nuisance of yourself by standing in traffic. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| reineke Senior Member United States https://learnalangua Joined 6453 days ago 851 posts - 1008 votes Studies: German | Message 35 of 60 02 December 2008 at 4:57pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
If there’s anything annoying about your recent posts, it’s this. I think “they” are muzzling and banning members way too lightly, and I also believe there are way too many willing commissars here. I am not upset at you.
I think you’re biased and/or misinformed and/or slightly messing around.
About half-wits I’d agree but you might as well mention that water is wet. Therefore you’re simply provoking. Some countries have very strong comic book cultures, others don’t. France produces and consumes more comics than Russia, Poland and many other countries combined. Korea consumes an awful lot of comics. Belgrade is likely to have more comic lovers than Warsaw. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| gogglehead Triglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 6081 days ago 248 posts - 320 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Italian | Message 36 of 60 03 December 2008 at 3:41am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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I will have to admit I agree with some points made by both Reineke and Ibanezfire.
Ibanezfire was right about the leaning thing, I was actually leaning towards French at first, but didn't want to influence the advice I was given, as I believe that my inclination towards completing a route through romance languages was not relevant in the discussion about which would actually be the better language for me to learn. I think that just because I was leaning towards French does not mean that the track cannot change, so to speak.. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Jimmymac Senior Member United Kingdom strange-lands.com/le Joined 6159 days ago 276 posts - 362 votes Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, French | Message 37 of 60 03 December 2008 at 3:52am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Forgive me for my naïveté but I really do not see the big fuss regarding the infamous atamgawarui. In reality, what has he/she done that is so bad? Last time I checked a certain amount of provocation is inevitable when conflicting views are presented. And quite frankly I found the last few posts on this thread highly amusing.
I really think some people should relax and realise that there are more overtly unproductive members of this forum than atamgawarui. With the exception of the good Professor's work the L-R thread alone has probably hooked more people onto this site than any other. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| chelovek Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6093 days ago 413 posts - 461 votes 5 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Russian | Message 38 of 60 03 December 2008 at 4:41am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
I think you have a great point here. Russians apparently aren't big on "fun" things as far as literature and entertainment is concerned. Whenever I seek out suggestions for books, TV shows, movies, etc., they only want to recommend classics or mini-series based on classics. It's pretty annoying, frankly. I'd hate to go to a bookstore there and only find serious, depressing stuff. I'm not quite sure if the people I talk to are just elitist, or if there's an actual shortage of light-hearted/fun material. Edited by chelovek on 03 December 2008 at 5:03am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Siberiano Tetraglot Senior Member Russian Federation one-giant-leap.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6499 days ago 465 posts - 696 votes Speaks: Russian*, English, ItalianC1, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Serbian | Message 39 of 60 03 December 2008 at 5:50am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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chelovek, be sure, a good deal of bookstores are occupied with a throwaway detective comedy or womens novels. :) How's her name .... Darya Dontsova, the only one I remembered. I guess their trademarks aren't famous yet, they're hard to remember. :) Educated people, even if they read this, don't call it "literature". Who's educated or pretends to be, reads Pelevin, Minaev ("Духless", "The Тёлки" etc.)
The other reason must be that it's hardly accessible from abroad, and we're not a tourist attraction. I can send you by post some of this junk from my mother's reserves. xD She won't notice. Edited by Siberiano on 03 December 2008 at 5:56am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Leopejo Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6115 days ago 675 posts - 724 votes Speaks: Italian*, Finnish*, English Studies: French, Russian | Message 40 of 60 03 December 2008 at 5:51am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
You got several "funny" suggestions in your Russian & Portuguese TV thread, or am I wrong? Maybe people prefer to suggest what stands apart of their country instead of funny things that you can find everywhere. Besides, often cheap humour is too tied to one country or one culture to be understood or appreciated by foreigners, or so they may think. Why do you use the word "elitist"? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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