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[irene221b]

Казалось бы - знаешь английский. Книги читаешь, документы пишешь получше аборигенов. А как сходишь с накатанной колеи - сплошной позор и разочарование.
В магазине попросить пустую кассету... Нет, он понял, понял и empty, и clean. Только зовут ее все-таки не так.

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[isanna.livejournal.com]

Fellow american!!!!!! Finally!!!
Irene, don't be so hard on yourself. You speak three languages. Compare to average american(don't know about your local aborigines) you are a polyglot. Do you read your detectives in English or Russian. I just spent shitload of money on special collection of Sherlock Holmes books. I feel so cheated. I started to read and it's not the same as it was 15 years ago. Whether it is the language or I just outgrew the stories themselves, I feel I should ask for refund for personal trauma.

[irene221b.livejournal.com]

Dude, you forgot Ukrainian! :-) Make that four languages.

What do you mean you outgrew the stories? It's impossible. ;-) Give it another try, it's so soothing after a hard day.
Or you can have a good fantasy about Basil Rathbone. Or Peter Cushing. Or Christopher Lee. Really, the possibilities are endless with Sherlock Holmes. :-) Livanov was not half bad either.

Dude yourself

[isanna.livejournal.com]

You forgot some of us were exempt from ukrainian on account that we were too stupid to learn it.

"Pain and Suffering"

[zaleph.livejournal.com]

Why is it Isanna? What was so disappointing? Was it because the stories are not as intriguing as they were 15 years ago or in the “original” language, it was so much better than the translated version you knew before? If we can find a common ground, we can go for a “class action” case, which would greatly increase the amount of money we would demand for “pain and suffering”. Among other things, we'll have to decide who will be the defendent; in other words:"Where the money will come from?".

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[irene221b.livejournal.com]

>If we can find a common ground, we can go for a “class action” case, >which would greatly increase the amount of money we would demand for >“pain and suffering”.

Holy deerstalkers. Fellow american indeed.

;-))))

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[zaleph.livejournal.com]

I would like to avoid a false first impression by making a “confession”; you can call it a “Disclaimer”, if you want to. “Even though my “indecent proposal” to engage in a possible “intellectual class action suit” sounds like a very American "quality" – it’s not a part of my character” (end of “fine print”). Sometimes I regret it, especially when I see that it’s not a part of my childrens characters either. There is, probably, “something” (immunizing) in the blood…

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[irene221b.livejournal.com]

Илья, вы что? Я же шутила. Вы тоже очевидно шутили. Все нормально с первым впечатлением. :-)

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[zaleph.livejournal.com]

Я тоже, Ирина... В связи с "нормальным первым впечатлением" я вспомнил, почему-то, нечто, прочитанное мною давным-давно, ещё в Прошлой жизни. Некто, явно не лишённый чувства юмора и с "правильным" ходом мыслей написал: "Ухаживая за девушкой, молодой человек пытается доказать ей, что он - самый лучший из тех, кто её окружают, а женившись на ней - он посвящает остаток жизни доказательству того, что она не ошиблась в своём выборе". Теперь мне уже "ничего не остаётся", как продолжать доказывать, что Вы не ошиблись с первым впечатлением.

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[isanna.livejournal.com]

Yep, we are lawyer happy. Trigger happy as well I may add.