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Originally Posted by Cd
Piwoslaw, your grammer is so much gooder than mine is. ( No seriously ... it really is better than mine. )
I grew up being taught that people from other countries other than the U.S. were uneducated poor people that were oppressed under communism, and couldn't even afford to buy good shoes.
Thanks to the Internet, I am so thankful that todays children have a more accurate view of the world.
And, yes I too was confused as to why that you would want to have 'weighted' your car.
( I thought " What is he adding ballast and racing the car at Bonneville ? )  |
I've heard that often foreigners can know a language
better than native speakers (sans accent), since they actually
learn the language and all of its rules, while many natives just grow up with it. Natives know what sounds right, but they usually can't explain why this verb is used in such a way and not differently. So much for theory. My English is good b/c I went to elementary and middle school in the US, so it's like a first language for me. When I returned to Poland I couldn't speak Polish, so I had to learn it. Thankfully, there was still some residue hidden in the depths of my head so I learned quite quickly, quick enough to be better in Polish than most of my classmates in highschool. And I'm still way better than they are in English
But there are things I've forgotten, and things I've never learned (like when to use
effect and when
affect). There are good sides to being fluently bilingual (I'm working on more), but I've also missed out on many things when growing up. But enough of this!
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Originally Posted by brucepick
When I knew Svetlana, she weighed only 64 kg. I thought that was just about perfect.  |
Like I said...
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Originally Posted by Piwoslaw
(Women - they always lie about their age and weight  ) |
I told other Peugeot owners about how light my car is, and they mostly replied "That shows how accurate the scales are at the junkyard!" I haven't found the European standards for weighing cars, but I'm guessing they are similar to the EPA's testing (thanx, Phil
).