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2007-05-25T09:38:51+02:00

Thank you, Desertisland, for this nice picture!

...and itch to go somewhere was on him...

2006-06-24T10:48:28+02:00

The summer...
Crowds of people are going to the sea and I feel necessity to go somewhere away ... to hide from people and from myself. Recently I have discovered the best way to escape from this world - you simply need to dissolve in this crow, to get lost in the streams of strangers that have no interest in you. Big cities are that very right solution. Where else if not in the big city you feel lonely and lost? Everybody is running somewhere and does not pay attention at you. It is a quite strange phenomenon when being among people you are absolutely hidden from them. The crowd swallows you and you can even lose yourself, abandon from your personality and experience a feeling of being a grain of sand in the world where nothing depends from it and at the same time everything moves around this grain...
It is really great...
That is why I planned to visit all big cities of Europe this summer. Let the others be lying on the beaches, enjoying the sun and their "importance" for this world ... I am going to unite with the crowds and to explore the world of other countries' cultures.
Rome, Santorini, Athens, Berlin, Vienna, Paris and Madrid, Warsaw, Bern and Prague, London.
I decided to devote 3 month to myself… to escaping from myself and from the usual things we got used to.
Luggage is packed, tickets are bought and hotels are booked in advance… in some days I start off.
The only thing I need at the moment is to take my cigarette to close my eyes and to wait …
I wish you everybody to find and to get from the holidays what they really expect to…

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Words that slip off our tongue - do we hurt someone's feelings by this?

2006-05-03T10:42:00+02:00

Have recently found interesting information on the web and feel the necessity to think it over.
Jargon, slang and bad words in our daily life make us more expressive and bright in our vision.
According to the data polling more than 40% of big cities inhabitants prefer to embellish their speeches with emotionally coloured words that might seem to be obscene to the others and to be the highest point of emotional tension to the followers.
According to the published data - more than 72% of women demonstrate their negative attitude towards people, pronouncing such words, though sitting with friends somewhere and drinking certain beverages might use this vocabulary to make the conversation more colourful.
Some people said that it is possible to use obscene words when one is under stress and needs to splash out the strong emotions, to show how much angry they are or to start quarrels.

Others think that the situation might not create conditions for usage of obscene words, but the specific surrounding does help and stimulates this: in the milieu of drunk people, in a male company, in the forest for noone to hear it etc.
Less people think that the obscene words are necessary to come to understanding when the ideas are too intricate - the capacious words take too much time to be pronounced or are not so much convincing.
On the one hand the uncontrolled vocabulary is so much tightly bound with our daily life that there is no sense to struggle it. It performs certain number of functions helping us at deliverance of negative emotions and is the inalienable part of our non-formal communication. On the other hand people do not realize that usage of obscene words is not always appropriate. Such words can be apprehended in the private relations and are usually misapprehended in business and public.
The third point I would like to stress is that when using the uncontrolled vocabulary we completely forget many nice and colourful words that really make our communication more vivid and word-painting.
Let's protect our language, we are risking to lose the main part of it when erroneously substitute nice non-abusive words for pseudo-easier ones.

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