Hello Daidai and welcome.
I'm very pleased to meet you. You do not need to apologise for
your English, you are doing fine, and practise will only help
you!
You are a very lucky young lady to have InferChan as your
boyfriend. Please say "hello" for me.
Goromoff in England
Well...Hello 'Cat'....InferChan is a sneaky thing...I didn't know he had
such a 'beautiful' Girlfriend :-))
Welcome to alt.friends I hope you will enjoy your times with us...I am
'Bigbazza..(Barry)....I live in 'Sydney...Australia....We miss InferChan a
lot...Your English is very good....Not green !
--
Bigbazza(Barry)..Oz
Hello Daidai,
I am your neighbour, an Indian and Vijay by name. I work and live in
Bangalore. BTW, my company is opening a branch office in Beijing.
Like cartoons? See here: http://geocities.com/vijoeyz/misc/calvin/
Oh, till now I haven't interacted with infer_chan. Hope to do so in
the future.
Regards,
Vijay
Hi daidai, it's very nice to meet you. InferChan is very sweet and we miss
him since he hasn't been able to post here lately. I hope you enjoy the
group.
Hello, Daidai. Welcome to alt.friends. I think you'll like it
here. We've been without Chinese representation for too long.
Understanding what we write will come with time. The more you
practice a language, the more you understand it. You are already doing
very well in English. I wouldn't think of you as being green.
My name is Kent Wills. I live near Des Moines, Iowa in the USA.
I teach American History to middle school children. I have a wife,
Lindsay, who is a psychologist with the Fifth Judicial District in Des
Moines.
Lindsay and I have a son, Richard, who will turn nine years old
in a little over two weeks (March 23rd to be exact). They grow up so
fast!
If you want to know anything else, just ask. Odds are I'll
answer any questions.
Kent
--
Don't worry about the world ending today... It's already tomorrow in
Australia. Unless you're in Australia... (then start worrying)
>
>"cat" <daida...@163.com> wrote in message
>news:d08p78$cdv$1...@mail.cn99.com...
>> My name is daidai,a Chinese girl.My boyfriend infer_chan introduce me to
>> join this group.He says all of you are very kind and friendly and I wish
>> to make friends with you.I have read some of your notices carefully though
>> can not fully understand.Sorry for my green English level.
>> daidai
>>
>
>Well...Hello 'Cat'....InferChan is a sneaky thing...I didn't know he had
>such a 'beautiful' Girlfriend :-))
You've seen a picture? Lucky you! :)
Kent
--
When cryptography is outlawed,
bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.
>Finally! A - girl - has - arrived!
I think the women in the group may be a bit upset with that
comment. And you can't borrow my armor as grdog is using it :)
Kent
--
Schemes hatched in hell don't have angels for witnesses.
Hello Cat!! Any friend of Inter's is a friend we need. Your English
is very good and will probably get better with practice, and you'll
get a lot of that here. :) We're missing Infer now that he's lost
his use of newsgroups but I get email from him nearly every day. I
will tell him that you have joined us. He will be happy.
-
Piper
LOL!
-
Piper
InferChan...
<vij...@gmail.com> ????
news:1109936143....@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
InferChan...
"Piper" <piperett...@direcway.com> ????
news:0onj21l5kkmesfpkt...@4ax.com...
InferChan...
"Goromoff" <goro...@godknows.com> 写入邮件
news:vtCdnXFpCr4...@giganews.com...
InferChan...
"Bigbazza" <bigb...@nospam.com> 写入邮件
news:38qmreF...@individual.net...
InferChan...
<vij...@gmail.com> ????
news:1109936361....@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
InferChan...
"Simon Smith" <si...@removethisbitbtopenworld.com> 写入邮件
news:d09i7u$9rk$1...@hercules.btinternet.com...
Of course daidai's English is excellent...
because I taught her...<g>..:-))
<don't let her know I said this, or I'll get killed some day>
InferChan...
"Myrtle" <maybe....@gmail.com> 写入邮件
news:cj0Wd.28413$8B3....@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>
> "cat" <daida...@163.com> wrote in message
> news:d08p78$cdv$1...@mail.cn99.com...
> Hi there, welcome to the group. I'm Myrtle from Bristol in the West of
> England.
> Your English is just fine :-)
>
>
InferChan...
"Bianca" <motherbink@no_spam.yahoo.com> 写入邮件
news:r72dnSO9c5a...@giganews.com...
InferChan....
"Kent Wills" <comp...@gmail.com> ????
news:mpmh21henkvuf2p6j...@4ax.com...
InferChan..
"cat" <daida...@163.com> 写入邮件 news:d08p78$cdv$1...@mail.cn99.com...
That won't happen. How did you get here, anyway? I thought they 'cut
you off'. Good to see you back!
-
Piper
doug
Sure. I don't embarrass easily.
Kent
--
Why don't people who believe in reincarnation leave all their money to
themselves?
>Hey..girl...you are taking my friends away...
>They are mine...:-))
>
>
She hasn't taken us away from you. She's just one more friend to
add to the list.
Kent
--
If the grass if greener on the other side of the fence, the septic
tank probably has a leak.
I would love too..... you better be careful because I may just take you up
on that one day.... especially now that I FINALLY know what you look like :)
rrr... now I gotta think of something :P
>
>rrr... now I gotta think of something :P
Make it a really good one.
Hey, I don't have a picture! :-(
Matthew
I'll email you one
Nice to meet you, Cat. I am Erica from Amsterdam in the Netherlands. I think
that I am the oldest member of this group. But age does not seem to be very
important here.
Erica
Only to the extent that we call you Oma (or is it Uma?).
Kent
--
Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati
hey... I'm an Oma too :)
[...]
>>
>> Only to the extent that we call you Oma (or is it Uma?).
>>
>> Kent
>> --
>> Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati
>
>hey... I'm an Oma too :)
>
But not THE Oma :)
Kent
--
When cryptography is outlawed,
bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.
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Piper
nah... that would have been my grandmother :)
Erica is the only Oma in the group. :P
Kent
--
You need only two tools: WD-40 and duct tape.
If it doesn't move and it should, use WD-40.
If it moves and shouldn't, use the duct tape.
why's that?
btw... my grandkids really do call me Oma..... and my nieces call me
Tante.... Es kommt vom Deutchen in meiner familie :) sowieso Ich muß mein
Deutsches üben, weil mein Vetter kommt im August zu besuchen :P
>why's that?
>
Because she's Dutch.
>btw... my grandkids really do call me Oma..... and my nieces call me
>Tante.... Es kommt vom Deutchen in meiner familie :) sowieso Ich muß mein
>Deutsches üben, weil mein Vetter kommt im August zu besuchen :P
Der sollte Spaß sein. Erklären Sie Ihrem Vetter, den ich sage,
"hallo."
Kent
--
Wenn das Gras, wenn grüner auf der anderen Seite des Zauns, der
septische Behälter hat vermutlich eine Leckstelle.
and? German's use Oma too :)
>
>>btw... my grandkids really do call me Oma..... and my nieces call me
>>Tante.... Es kommt vom Deutchen in meiner familie :) sowieso Ich muß mein
>>Deutsches üben, weil mein Vetter kommt im August zu besuchen :P
>
> Der sollte Spaß sein. Erklären Sie Ihrem Vetter, den ich sage,
> "hallo."
I will... she actually speaks pretty good English, and understands even
more... but her kids don't speak any English so I really need to practice a
bit before they get here. Funny thing is, after a week of talking to her
I forget how to speak English :) Used to crack up the folks at work cause
I'll start speaking German... they'd get the funniest looks on their faces.
It's funny how fast it comes back, even after being gone for 20+ years.
Received it, thank you :-)
Matthew
What's an Oma ? can anyone be one ?
What do you have to do to qualify ?
Excuse my ignorance LOL
--
Pat
Its a Grandma in German (possibly in Dutch as well) Pat
My eldest grandson called me that when he was tiny now he just calls me
little granny Barb!!
--
Barb
Friends are the family you choose for yourself
Thank's Barb, I don't know much German, apart from please and thankyou :-)
--
Pat
hehe....Oma is German (and Dutch) for Grandmother, if you have any grand
urchins running around you qualify :)
LOL
I am over qualified, I have a one year old great Grandson ;-)
what does that make me ?
--
Pat
In the town that I came from that would make you an Uhr Oma :)
I can live with that ;-) that sounds ok, it rollsoff the tongue quite
nicely, I havebeen looking up a translation online of great and big , it
brought up quite a lot of different words, some of which I didn't fancy
being called ;-)
--
Pat
lol... the problem with translation programs is that they translate proper
German. I was born in a little town outside of Karlsruhe called Knielegen,
and as is common in most of the small towns we had our own dialect. For
example, in proper German a potatoe would be a Kartoffel, in Knielegerish is
a grum biere (crooked root). :)
LOL... go ahead, you'll probably get a good laugh from your friends.
My first language was German. I learned English at six, and because my
mother was learning English at the time too she quit speaking German to me.
We had just moved to the US and ended up staying for about 4 years and
during that time I forgot all of my German. When we returned to Germany I
learned it again (my grandparents spoke no English).
I've been in the States permanently now since 1978 and am very rusty so I
usually don't speak it much in public. I can, however speak both German and
English without an accent, unless you count the southern accent I've picked
up since I've been here.
Would love to hear your accent :)
Best to learn when you are a child I think.
>
> I've been in the States permanently now since 1978 and am very rusty so I
> usually don't speak it much in public. I can, however speak both German
> and English without an accent, unless you count the southern accent I've
> picked up since I've been here.
Shame that you don't get to use your German so much but I am sure it would
all come flooding back if you were with people who only spoke German
>
> Would love to hear your accent :)
Not sure if you would - very broad :-))
Omaoma? :o)
-
Piper
>lol... the problem with translation programs is that they translate proper
>German. I was born in a little town outside of Karlsruhe called Knielegen,
>and as is common in most of the small towns we had our own dialect. For
>example, in proper German a potatoe would be a Kartoffel, in Knielegerish is
>a grum biere (crooked root). :)
>
We have our own dialogue around here, too. A potato is a tater, a
tomato is a mater and okra is okrie. The emergency room at the
hospital is the mercy room. They don't ask you a question, they axe
you one. It's horrible!!
-
Piper
The mother of the overgrootmoeder is the betovergrootmoeder.
My granddaughter sometimes playes with a little wooden shop that my
grandfather made for me when I was a child and I like to think that she is
playing with something her betovergrootverder made.
Erica
oh yeah... I forgot you Alabama folks :).... actually we have one of yours
living a couple boats over here in the marina, he's from Wetumpka <sp?>
Once of the nicest men I've ever met.
>
>"Bianca" <motherbink@no_spam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:o7CdnehprMV...@giganews.com...
>> LOL... go ahead, you'll probably get a good laugh from your friends.
>>
>> My first language was German. I learned English at six, and because my
>> mother was learning English at the time too she quit speaking German to
>> me. We had just moved to the US and ended up staying for about 4 years and
>> during that time I forgot all of my German. When we returned to Germany I
>> learned it again (my grandparents spoke no English).
>
>Best to learn when you are a child I think.
It's MUCH easier. Richard is able to speak English and Polish.
When we want to annoy Lindsay, we'll speak to each other in Polish.
She used to get rather flustered, which was the intent. Now she just
ignores us mostly :(
>
>>
>> I've been in the States permanently now since 1978 and am very rusty so I
>> usually don't speak it much in public. I can, however speak both German
>> and English without an accent, unless you count the southern accent I've
>> picked up since I've been here.
>
>Shame that you don't get to use your German so much but I am sure it would
>all come flooding back if you were with people who only spoke German
>
If my experience in November is any example, words and phrases
long forgotten came back while we were in Poland. It's amazing how
quickly one can return to their native language when totally immersed
in it.
[...]
Kent
--
Nie'se schlect sim'wa
Around here a potato is a potato, a tomato is a tomato, and okra
is gross... Sorry. Okra is okra. The emergency room is the ER.
Down in Arkansas, no one is getting ready to do something. They
are fixin' to do something. That one always makes me grin.
Kent
--
Si hoc legere scis numium eruditionis habes.
hey... I'm gonna go make big groceries tomorrow ... wanna come?
Isn't language funny. I have a very dear friend who lives in Ireland and
every time I ring her she greets me with "Is that yourself Barb"
You know I just have to check every time to make sure it really is me :-))
Oh that's naughty hee hee. Looks as though Lindsay has learnt to live with
it though
> If my experience in November is any example, words and phrases
> long forgotten came back while we were in Poland. It's amazing how
> quickly one can return to their native language when totally immersed
> in it.
Oh good so my thoughts are proved correct then
Now if only I could arrange to go and live in Germany for a few weeks I
might be able to astound the group with my knowledge when I get back
>hey... I'm gonna go make big groceries tomorrow ... wanna come?
You're gonna wha...?
-
Piper
I just asked myself and apparently I am not too bad but have a bit of a sore
back think I must have lain funny in bed last night!
I have to hold back the giggle every time I talk to her Val, even though I
know she is going to say it I still have a laugh
How about "I carried my mother to the store today." ??? I always get
the silliest visual when I hear that!
-
Piper
Might just try that but you know a woman's work is never done. Have to fix
a meal first for himself and the worker (daughter)
Sorry. :o( Have a hot soak. That'll fix you up.
-
Piper
lol... Cajun slang for "I'm going to the store tomorrow to purchase a large
quantity of goods, would you like to come?
Okra is much better fried... not as slimey :)
<bink does not put okra in her gumbo for that very reason>
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Piper
We love fried okra. Himself wants to grow some again this year. It's
just easier to buy at the store, besides, I think he forgot we sold
the freezer. hehehe! <piper happy she doesn't have to freeze okra
ever again>
-
Piper
hehe... usually :)
can you fry it after it's frozen or does it get mushy like some veggies?
No. Here's how I do it:
I wash it, dry it a little with paper towels. Lay them out on a
cookie sheet, freeze, then dump into Ziploc bags. When we want to
cook some, take out what we want, let it thaw a *little*, cut into the
usual pieces, dump into a bowl of milk, drain (there will be ice
crystals on it of milk) shake in a bag of seasoned corn meal and fry.
I found that if it's still frozen a bit when you put it in the milk
and meal that the meal stays on when you fry it. Buttermilk works
best but I don't ever have any. It's simple, really. Also, have the
oil really hot.
-
Piper
that sounds good (and easy).... do you season your corn meal (if so with
what?) or do you buy some kind of pre-seasoned meal? Fry until golden
brown?
I just season the meal with salt and pepper, and yes, fry till brown.
Don't over cook it or it will be chewy. That's why you need the oil
really hot, plus if it isn't hot, all the meal will float off of the
okra because you have to leave it in too long.
-
Piper