Post by pieter on Feb 16, 2015 15:05:03 GMT -7
Pieter
Please do not consider your self as critizing me for my post, for I do not consider this as critizing, but to the contrary: Correcting. How are we to learn if we reject critical thinking.. I am happy it was your self for reasons of accuracy. For being an artist your self, you have a trained eye for detail and form, with this, as a journalist, you have the skills of observing/describing and accuracy. All these traits I do understand and recognize with appreciation.
My life is working withen the world of people, their attributes, their skills, their work and, their weaknesses. Dependant upon situation and assignment, one or more of this attributes will be found and worked with {But, not on the Forum}}}.
But, with art,,,I am a baboon to say it lightly..
Be not to think you are critizing, for this is far from truth, for in reality you are teaching and this is most appreciated by this fellow...
Thank you once again
Karl
Karl,
The feeling is mutual. I learn from your contributions too, the skills of your profession, your studies, your travels, and experiences in the countries you have been too. Don't underestimate your empirical findings, your life experiance. I see wisdom in your life, education, studying, traveling, staying, working and experiancing in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands (the brief moments that you were in Groningen, Utrecht and other places), South-Africa (Pretoria), Namibia, Syria (Aleppo and Damascus) (and probably Iraq, and maybe Lebanon or Israel -for brief trips or field work?-), the USA (the North-West), Canada, Southern-America and Latin-America (Mexico, your present location). Don't underestimate you importance and experience as a public official and as a representative of Germany abroad.
Maybe I teached you a 'tiny, little bit' about art and culture, you learned me a great deal about the work of a government, the public office, Germany, Denmark, the sea (our shared interest|) and North-Germany and the Denmark, the country I am fond of for certain personal reasons. (an old past time love)
I just learned a great deal about the shared roots of Danish and English for instance. I had a superficial notice of that, but not a deeper knowledge, while I have a linguistic interest from a cultural perspective. In this Forum for instance I would be interested in 'general polish' and it's relationship to the Kashubian, Gorale, Silesian, Czech, Slovakian, Ruthenian, Sorb, Ukrainian and Belarussian languages. Like we had our discussion about Danish, Low Saxon, German, Dutch, Flemish, Afrikaander, English and the Yiddish languages. West-Germanic languages. Maybe the Roman-Catholic Poles in the past saw the a West-Germanic language speaking jews as allies of the Germans, because Yiddish sounds like German.
Now I have to watch out, because "Jewish", "Yiddish", and the combination 'Jewish and Polish' is a sensitive subject over here . Back to the topic. Criticism and teachings is good as long as it is not in a patronizing way. I am really interested in the subject of West-slav languages. Why are they different from the Eastern-Slav and Southern-slav languages. Is it like the West-German and North-Germanic (Scandinavian) languages and the Romanesque-latin European languages French, Wallon, Occitan, Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Portugese, Italian, Lombard, Romansh, Sicilian, Corsican, and Rumanian. But also why are the West-slav languages Polish, Czech and Slovak so different?
Somebody told me that Slovak is closer to Polish than Czech. I don't see or hear similarities between Czech and Polish. German and Dutch seem closer to eachother, but in the same time very different. Like Meer is lake in Dutch and sea in German and See/Zee is lake in German and sea in Dutch.
Cheers,
Pieter