Gapping the bridges

No it's just saying something and trying to make sense of it only thereafter - business as usual.

On flattery

You like to talk much more than to make sense.

Converging accents

After returning to bz somehow one of the first things you recognize are the accents of the others - seems like they've got even more characteristic then they were, so that it takes more efforts to get the sense. Or maybe it's just the matter of adjusting (to English in general?) and in a week I won't notice any difference. In either case I guess that you use the English in the environment where it's nobody's mother tongue your accent might improve till it converges to some "best possible". But the same time it might evolve in the wrong direction if you feel too comfortable with the way it's easier for you to talk (not the way that should be correct by the standard) and you don't see any obstacles in conveying your ideas while deliberately worsening your accent.

Shopping abuse

Today as I was about to go home, it suddenly came across to me that I've not been to the Rimi for a month or so and that I quite willingly want to go there. An awkward desire, gotta admit. So I went there, wandering a bit in a tourist mode, and realized that I don't need anything. I went to the shop to buy nothing. Instead I was looking, looking around and it felt like wherever I would look, my eyesight rushed into the looks of others that were seemingly staring at me right at the same time, which made me feel like an elephant in a glass store which needs to be monitored so that it doesn't break anything. Or maybe it was just an illusion :).

tin food: the good, the bad and the ugly

If you don't say it once you feel like saying it then thereafter it's just a piece of tin food.

hmm

Funny, that I'm always happy to greet the most annoying person around. The delight is usually halted by around the third sentence uttered by him. And I'm looking forward to be delighted to meet him again. Strange.

Speech still is silver

It's kinda hard when you start talking while not conducting the directions of your speech, but the same time not being able to float around the topic and get away being a bit sloppy on it. Your utterance eventually hangs up on a confusing halting point where you don't know what you actually meant and the listeners don't know how to react on you incomprehensible sequences of utterances.

789

Being in company with someone with a corny sense of humor is even more irritating than hearing the same news broadcast for the n-th time (at least you can turn it off).

On answering

It's easy to answer. It's a bit more difficult to give a fair or a thought-through answer. Sometimes it's hard to answer because actually the inquirer doesn't expect your answer, but the one of his. But the answerer gets it the most wrong when he pays little attention on the question, but deviates the flow of his answer to his own-sweet topics where he feels so comfortable than anywhere else - it seems for him so pleasant that he falls in love with this routine and from then on takes every chance to get to that cozy position.

El el

What's the sense of fruitless conversation if you don't benefit from it also in any other means? I'm too old to afford myself being self-tortuously polite.

The matter of reception 2

Stop throwing these you-knows at me, for God's sake! Because I don't!

The matter of say

Do I say something because of it or because of say?

On flooding

Some people think that the main thing is to keep on talking not being selective about the topic or not considering whether the talk mates are really into the stuff. They find themselves being great in this flooding stuff - anything they say is interesting and everybody's excited about how the storyline unfolds. Another approach is to maintain several topics almost at the time browsing for the most interested faces and once it's found put on the cruise control and keep on rolling.