Wait a minute, those look like horses! Reminds me of
Pennsylvania where a couple of city folks got a couple
of "spikes". Those in the know call them cows :)
Bob Docherty
--- "James N. McBride" <jnmcbr@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I am so poorly educated when it comes to languages
> and really should do
> something about that. It interests me but I have too
> many interests to
> pursue them all. I envy those who speak and
> understand multiple languages.
>
> We are getting snow in the mountains but just a
> skiff on the desert. I
> hunted in the snow last week but it was very wet and
> alternated between snow
> and rain. These links are to some pictures of us
> packing out elk meat in
> the snow. The little guy is my grandson that climbed
> up the mountain for two
> miles to "help" us with the horses. We got three elk
> last week and are
> hoping for two or three more to provide some good
> low-fat protein.
>
>
http://myweb.cableone.net/jmac25/Assets/Images/Hunt05_005_w.jpg
>
>
http://myweb.cableone.net/jmac25/Assets/Images/Hunt05_007_w.jpg
>
>
http://myweb.cableone.net/jmac25/Assets/Images/Hunt05_008_w.jpg
>
> These were taken with a small weather resistant Oly
> Stylus Digital.
>
> /jmac
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Willie Wonka
> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 8:24 PM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: USA Southwest
>
>
> Jim,
> I am probably the wrong person to answer this
> question as I am no authority
> on the subject. The only advantage I have over most
> non-native speakers is
> that I learned English the way you did ie I did not
> translate each word in
> my head to Bulgarian.
> I think Andrew D gave a good answer (although he
> still calls the Bulgarian
> alphabet Cyrillic...:), but here are few
> observations:
> The everyday vocabulary is much larger, with the
> absent of any vagueness.
> The language is structured in a way that leaves any
> doubt about the intend
> of using the words, which makes life easier,
> especially on the Net...:).
> Part of it comes from being gender oriented, but
> also there is room for the
> introduction of new words sometimes via slight
> modifications.
> It is much easier to paint vivid pictures using less
> words and keeping the
> attention of the listener at the same time. (part
> of it goes back to the
> larger vocabulary...to illustrate, the use of the
> word "great" comes to
> mind. Here one can refer as great to an event that
> affects the fate of
> humanity and "great" is also used when it comes to
> very trivial matters.
> overthere you have several words for great, a few
> for each instance, but
> they are not interchangeable)
> Now here where the fun begins:
> Slight modifications of the words make the best
> jokes ever told. If I come
> up with a good example, I would share, but has been
> a long week and my mind
> is cloudy...you got snow there? I can't wait for
> the winter to come, miss
> the loooong winters from my childhood.
> Boris
>
>
>
> From: "James N. McBride" <jnmcbr@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [OM] Re: USA Southwest
> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 08:21:56 -0700
>
>
> It would seem to limit linguistic creativity. /jmac
>
>
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