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ahhh now I will have to read more to find out about what happens on this Tues
posted by
Lanetay
on October 19, 2009 at 9:06 AM
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Can't wait to read the next bit! Thanks very much for your comment; yes, it does apply to all friends! Enjoy the time with the grandchildren! Nita.
posted by
Nita09
on October 14, 2009 at 9:50 AM
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I will come back between tomorrow and Sat to catch up, I have been pretty busy
posted by
Lanetay
on October 13, 2009 at 11:29 PM
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They're all keeping quite busy.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on October 13, 2009 at 7:32 PM
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Elinjo - I'm with Darson. have a lovely time with your grandchildren.
posted by
shobana
on October 13, 2009 at 3:40 PM
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Thank you for your post. I like the style of writing.
posted by
Darson
on October 13, 2009 at 2:58 PM
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Re: And is the kid growing up? Has the teen-age babysitter cured him
Managing the café? That sounds like a good twist to the story.....
posted by
elinjo
on October 13, 2009 at 12:10 PM
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And is the kid growing up? Has the teen-age babysitter cured him
of some of his bratty behavior? As for Granny, I almost expected her to be managing the little coffee shop where the couple went on their vacation...
posted by
Pat_B
on October 13, 2009 at 5:25 AM
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Re: esperanto and the irritating author
Betty first see if she is on facebook or any of the other networks and write a brief comment there. Put it on your own blog too. These are my first sugstions, bu I'll give it some more thought. I think I now understand why you are so irritated.
posted by
vogue
on October 13, 2009 at 4:51 AM
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Betty at her best.
Betty, once again you enthrall and create a place in this world where the reader can enter and hide. I loved the reference to "gobstoppers". Probably most readers wouldn't know those particular hard to eat types of candy. I remember as a kid in New Zealand, sucking forever on those things. Keep going.
posted by
Hackthorne19
on October 13, 2009 at 4:35 AM
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It's a book about the history of planned languages written by a supposedly well-qualified linguist. She has described the modern Esperanto movement at length, but has backed up her arguments with the worst possible examples. E.g. the title for a chapter on the Esperanto hospitality organization is: 'a nudist, a gay ornithologist, a railway enthusiast, and a punk Cannabis smoker Walk into a bar...(All those 'typing errors' in the quote appeared in the book.) Now if she had wished to she could also have included: teachers, students, doctors, factory workers, pensioners, shop assistants etc with quite unsensational interests such as stamp-collecting, gardening, cycling and water-colors. I feel very irritated not just because she is being unobjective about Esperanto, but also because I have this naive theory that people who spend years studying a subject ought to be more objective and professional. I intend to write a review, send it to her as an open letter and post it on the net, somewhere or other. Have you any suggestions as to where, Vogue or anybody who happens to read this comment?
posted by
elinjo
on October 13, 2009 at 4:33 AM
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What is the book you mentioned "Land of invented languages" about and why does it put up your blood pressure? I really want to know. Cleo's scream has really inspired me, so a short story with the title "How Aktium was
really lost" is in the making. Like you, I haven' written fiction in some time and look what lovely story
you came up with. Mine will be just funny.
posted by
vogue
on October 13, 2009 at 2:41 AM
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Just lovely, your style of story-telling, elinjo.
posted by
anib
on October 13, 2009 at 12:36 AM
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