It has been a moderately frustrating week at work with assorted things not quite going the right way at the right time. Mostly trivial stuff but annoying, especially when they seem to be grouping together and forming a gang of annoyance that squats under my desk and occasionally bites my kneecaps. Every cloud has a …
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Snippets from an email: I hope that You are doing well too. Thank You for coming back to me…..I very much appreciate that You managed to allocate……await further news from You during first half of November. I love the Polish tendency to capitalize the word “You”. Kind of a struggle for them because protocol means …
Notice how I couldn’t avoid two Americanisms in my title complaining about Americanisms! ;-) This is the root of the problem, some Americanisms are darn fine ones but others just drive me completely bonkers crazy. Take the word “guess” for example. The way I use it it is a fine complement to the English version …
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After my post a while back complaining about Brandenburg I thought it was time to make a more positive comment about the literature I’ve been exposed to recently, so here it is. Having read the Wikipedia article, I now know that Chuck Palahniuk is an American “transgressional fiction” novelist. Transgressive fiction is defined as: …..a …
Leaving home, Zosia forgot her gloves. Daddy goes back to get them and gives them to Zosia: Zosia – “Only two?” Daddy – “How many hands have you got?” Laughter.
What a multi-purpose headline that is! Seems a pity to waste it on just a small observation about how Poland treats foreign words. This was prompted by seeing a sign I saw on the side of a stretched Cadillac parked on Emilii Plater today, it said KLOWNI, that being the plural of KLOWN (clown in …
I don’t know about you but I’m getting pretty tired of people asking me directions and then ignoring what I say. Twice today I’ve had people on Ul. Złota asking me directions. First was a middle aged lady looking for the Holiday Inn, which was literally 50m away across the street. Because it didn’t have …
Twenty Degrees East 