A message to the americans:

[manker]

hum....nobody says a word. I appologize for being such a talking machine.

Apology accepted.

You might try not posting in such horrible word-bricks - don't I remember you posting that you're a teacher of some description - that way more people are likely to reach the end of your post, rather than giving up in frustration half way thro'.

You have some interesting ideas but I get eye-aids trying to navigate your offerings.


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The Sopranos; it's just entertainment, do you think the real mafia is like that. Of course not, and neither do 95% of the people watching it.

So, that's why America can show such a program and that's why people can watch it without it altering their moral outlook.

[Fromagepas]

He could learn a lot from Gillian. Perhaps they can get together

[leonidas]

Yes, I know The Sopranos is a fiction. My way of speaking thinking choosing the topics I'm talking about, might seem very strange, even agressive to you.

This is maybe a diference between french and american way of thinking. The tendency in France for instance to achieve things, to analyse, consist more in criticizing, in order to point out problems, and resolve them efficiently.

Actually I remember my teacher telling us when I was 8, to have what we call "esprit critique" which means thinking questioning everything.

While you seem for the litlle (or maybe the lot I don't know) I've seen of your culture, to try to think aiming to efficiency instead of perfection.

Many french think they are perfect in what they are & do, & think they have nothing to hear from anyone most of the time

If that's the way it is, your way is more dangerous in some ways, but definitly more human.

Some of us reject, don't accept their human side, even I not so long ago. we are nearly japaneses.
The only diference is that we speak a lot. Like I just did without much respect for others in this board indeed. Well ...

[Fromagepas]

Yes, I know The Sopranos is a fiction. My way of speaking thinking choosing the topics I'm talking about, might seem very strange, even agressive to you.

This is maybe a diference between french and american way of thinking. The tendency in France for instance to achieve things, to analyse, consist more in criticizing, in order to point out problems, and resolve them efficiently.

It would appear that, to your way of thinking, there are two types of people, French and American.

manker is not American, she is from West England. As such I think you owe her an apology.

[leonidas]

man, that's a lot af apologies already. But I think I owe her one anyway considering I thought she was a guy for noticing I said something smart.

I always think in terms of tendancies. It is for instance totally correct to say many whites are rich and many blacks are poor, as in that case you think in terms of tendancies.

"Tendancy" is one of numerous tools you use usually in sociology and other sciences, if you want to be able to have a valuable and organized picture of some phenomenon.

[orcutt989]

...Now that the world is governrened by duches...

Douche?





Or Duchess??



Which one do you mean???

[j2k4]

...Now that the world is governrened by duches...

Douche?





Or Duchess??



Which one do you mean???

Perhaps he means "Duchies"?

Plural of Duchy, BTW...

[j2k4]

It is for instance totally correct to say many whites are rich and many blacks are poor,

It would also be quite correct to say there are many more poor white people than black people-in the U.S., anyhow.

Your commendable use of "tendencies" as a tool for deductive purposes might be refined somewhat by a coincidental cogitation of the corollary regarding the focal setting of the lens through which you view them.

[Busyman]

It is for instance totally correct to say many whites are rich and many blacks are poor,

It would also be quite correct to say there are many more poor white people than black people-in the U.S., anyhow.

Your commendable use of "tendencies" as a tool for deductive purposes might be refined somewhat by a coincidental cogitation of the corollary regarding the focal setting of the lens through which you view them.

I'm going to vomit.

...or disgorge the ingredients located within my epigastrium.

[j2k4]

It would also be quite correct to say there are many more poor white people than black people-in the U.S., anyhow.

Your commendable use of "tendencies" as a tool for deductive purposes might be refined somewhat by a coincidental cogitation of the corollary regarding the focal setting of the lens through which you view them.

I'm going to vomit.

...or disgorge the ingredients located within my epigastrium.

To quote Mark Twain, more-or-less:

"Many commentators have thrown much darkness upon the subject, and, if they continue, we shall soon know nothing at all about it."