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Genine here, reader of almost anything, grammar nut - ask any of my friends. I collect language books, especially grammar and usage. All others I give to my friends, the local linrary, strangers.
Hi Genine! Welcome, also a belated welcome to Susan. I did not see your earlier post.
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(Sorry. Wrong thread.)
Hello there, the older ones may remember me.So, I'm a left-handed, proustian, polyglot, slightly obese, cigar smoking, married guy from Germany. I work as a self-employed consulting engineer which is the reason why I haven't been here for a while. It's great to be back.
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Hi Debbie and Newengland. No, I'm one of those "new job eats leisure" people.
I'm Jennifer and I'm a total geek. I teach part-time at a community college across the border in Illinois plus I also work part-time at my local Barnes & Noble (love the discount- a girl has to fund her reading habit somehow!). This semester, I've got two sections of Anatomy & Physiology (told you I was a geek) although I've also taugh several sections of Environmental Biology; that came in handy as we just took the boys out west to several national parks (Badlands in South Dakota; Yellowstone and Grand Teton in Wyoming) so they really appreciated the nature, hikes, wildlife, rock formations, geysers, etc. They're older (the baby is 16 and the oldest turned 21 while we were out there; the last one is 19) so we didn't have to worry about naps or carrying anybody. Well, they kind of had to worry about carrying their old mom as I'm not used to the elevation.
Newengland wrote: "Welcome, Genine! Good to see another grammar nut in the tree."Kitty wrote: "Hi Genine! Welcome, also a belated welcome to Susan. I did not see your earlier post."
Kitty wrote: "Hi Genine! Welcome, also a belated welcome to Susan. I did not see your earlier post."
Kitty wrote: "Hi Genine! Welcome, also a belated welcome to Susan. I did not see your earlier post."
Kitty wrote: "Hi Genine! Welcome, also a belated welcome to Susan. I did not see your earlier post."
Kitty wrote: "Hi Genine! Welcome, also a belated welcome to Susan. I did not see your earlier post."
Thanks for all the welcomes. Sorry not to have responded sooner; I've been taking advantage of our wonderful County Library system - holding - by computer! - books, picking them up, reading one a day and repeating. Such a good time I've been having!
Hi everyone. I've been looking for a group like this and I'm made up I found it. My grammar is awful. I've read 'Elements of Style' and a few other books, I just can't get the hang of it. I hope to sort that out on here, so please feel free to highlight my awful use of the English language. Looking forward to chatting to you guys. Cheers, Bozz.
Welcome Bozz, my grammar and spelling are terrible also.
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Welcome to L&G!
Hey I have His brother, boy his mommy got around. LOL Jackson looks quite a bit like him.
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Hope your weather is as nice.
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-- Someone who won't be here for two
Hi all! I just found this group and I'm looking forward to reading all the old threads and participating in new ones. One of my hobbies is taking photos of commercial grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors. Fun stuff! Yes, I'm a dork! I love words and word games and books. I read constantly. - Leanne
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I've got a collection of photos like that, too.
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the language is leaving me in silence . . . . .Uncharacteristic, perhaps, of an introduction for the group, but such as it is, it is the best I muster up at the moment. Such a fleeting moment it is anyway! Here a second, gone the next and never reunited again with the host. Eh, an introduction in cyber-world-groups is a mixed bag (“I shall be clever, I shall be unique”; just say hello, provide basic details and move on . . . who said that?!?!) of minute exhilarations and short doubts that in the end I become neither clever nor unique, but another simulacrum of perspicacity.
Hi! :)
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Kyle wrote: "Hello all. I'm Kyle, from South Boston. I'm married with one son and another baby on the way. I'm originally from Pasadena. I love reading, writing, acting, hiking, sailing, debates, meeting new pe..."As in little old lady, CA.?
Welcome from the West Coast.
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And here.
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I can't stand the snow. it is too cold for me. I like to look at Mt. Baldy, which is as far as I go to see snow. hahaha
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ah, snow, lovely from afar - not a snowflake i have seen, nor touched, in twenty years. (ps. thank you for the welcome kitty, newengland, gabi!)
Well you do have snow on the roof, and edges, like I do.
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Hello all,
I'm Hayes. I'm an ex-EFL teacher, originally from New York; I've been living in Rome since 1986. My husband is Italian, and we have one son, who is 14 yrs old and is know as "the Beast"... just look at his feet and you'll know why!
Language and grammar used to be my job, now just a hobby, but have always been a passion. I look forward to poking around the threads.
I'm Hayes. I'm an ex-EFL teacher, originally from New York; I've been living in Rome since 1986. My husband is Italian, and we have one son, who is 14 yrs old and is know as "the Beast"... just look at his feet and you'll know why!
Language and grammar used to be my job, now just a hobby, but have always been a passion. I look forward to poking around the threads.
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Hi Gabi,
I taught adults here in Rome, but I was forced into early retirement (the bottom fell out of the teaching market here a few years before it fell out of everything else), so I am un-gainfully unemployed.
I read a lot, do Bookcrossing, look after a group here at GR, and mostly play chief cook and taxi driver to the Beast, my over-achieving son, who plays the piano and the clarinet, is on a basketball team, is on the "math team" at his school, and is in student government... he keeps me busy.
I taught adults here in Rome, but I was forced into early retirement (the bottom fell out of the teaching market here a few years before it fell out of everything else), so I am un-gainfully unemployed.
I read a lot, do Bookcrossing, look after a group here at GR, and mostly play chief cook and taxi driver to the Beast, my over-achieving son, who plays the piano and the clarinet, is on a basketball team, is on the "math team" at his school, and is in student government... he keeps me busy.
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Anyway, hope to see you around the boards.
Hi Newengland. Retirement would be better if I had a pension, however, but that isn't likely any time soon.
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