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Date Posted: Mon, 12/ 1/03 9:10am
Author: Ylva
Subject: Re: Forget about that sauna ladle
In reply to: john mohdom 's message, "Re: Forget about that sauna ladle" on Sun, 11/30/03 10:39pm

>> Things sure do go whacky when you
>
>the other point is that some can connect issues from
>thread to thread over time while others (like me) tend
>to mostly start from scratch only a few posts
>ago...the rest is prologue but not necessarily
>conscious history

Ok, I see. Conscious selective reading may also matter when it comes to how twisted a topic can get due to the wide range of perspectives. Those who really care may take a little time to try to understand. If others do or don't doesn't really matter.

Anyway, I can't help but smiling at the possible whackiness of communication, but that doesn't mean I don't take the context of the situation seriously. Verbatim translations of proverbial phrases can also cause whackiness:

Many years ago one of our English teachers wrote down a list of Swedish proverbs, literally translated into English. Our task was to add the correct original proverbs. Quite a funny task as those phrases, so wellknown to us, suddenly looked so weird "wearing those foreign clothes" (for the same reason it looks weird when non-Indians play Indian; same effect but in a different field).

A little example in tune with the misunderstandings and blindness of lately: "She did a frog" means "she made a blunder" - or an even better version: "she made a howler". (((Sunny & Kangi))), I heard you. Thanks for howling. My name is Ylva. I'm complete and have no problems knowing where my home is. That, among other things, is part of the concept of being non-English euroEuropean.

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Replies:

Re: Forget about that sauna ladle -- john mohdom, Tue, 12/ 2/03 10:35pm
- Re: Forget about that sauna ladle -- Ylva, Wed, 12/ 3/03 6:34am