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well, I have made my feelings known personally to Geoff on that specific issue, but here I only will comment on the general. People come, people go, and interminable discussion of what we are, and what we do here, gets somewhat boring. Let's talk (preferably with language as the main focus) as long as we are mutually interested, and desist when not. In other ways I agree with Bingley and Max. and FWIW, I personally find sanctimony and puffed up grandiloquence as off-putting as rudeness, which is often in the eye of the beholder
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I have not read posts here attacking another Board member personally
Max, you have got to be kidding.
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In other ways I agree with Bingley and Max. and FWIW, I personally find sanctimony and puffed up grandiloquence as off-putting as rudeness, which is often in the eye of the beholder
Here! Here!
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"personally find sanctimony and puffed up grandiloquence as off-putting as rudeness, "
That sounds like archie talking. Or the guy who didn't want "any steenkin' Greeks"
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hey, Bill, don't kick my mate archie when he's not even around to defend himself!
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I have not read posts here attacking another Board member personally Max, you have got to be kidding.
In this kind of discussion, I feel often that there is a cultural fact about the way of living and interacting in the USA. I will try to explain: we Europeans are usually - as far as I know - less careful about beeing kind, so in some sense we grow "with an harder skin" and we don't feel really offended or invased, even if an American would feel that way in the same condition. As an example, in my country it is possible to meet an old friend after a long time, to hit him on a shoulder, and say "che ti prenda un colpo"= literally "(hope that you can die now) by an heart attack"! And, believe it or not, it MEANS AFFECTION!
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Hmmm, that's interesting emanuela. Off the top of my head I can only think of the expression "break a leg" as a negative expression meaning something positive (good luck).
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The differences between Europeans and USns is much like the difference between city dwellers and country folk. Country boys know everybody in town, and know that their reputation will suffer if they are disagreeable. City boys know only the people in the neighborhood, and don't give a damn about anyone outside it. They get used to hostility from the outsiders, and pride themselves on being 'street wise" with a full repertoire of insults to repay insults received, and vastly superior to us country boys.
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Country boys . . . City boysSo what about us suburban boys? Are we schizophrenic?
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Are we schizophrenic?Let's just call you "A bridge over troubled waters"
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