Hi, Mark Lewis!
I read your message from 17.10.2016 18:44
about Hello.
ak>> want to write letters by a pen! Letters then needed many days to
ak>> reach the addressee, so the traffic was slower and people had much
ak>> more time to compose their answer and to have a rest. ;)
ML> i used to write a lot but then computers were made available to the
ML> common man and i've done most everything on a computer since... my
ML> penmanship is lousy, anyway... in school, my signature was the only
ML> thing that i wrote in cursive (aka real) writing...
Now I feel that my hand became stiff. I even feel pain in it after writing
several lines by hand. ;)
ML> my
ML> signature is the only thing that has any resemblence to cursive and
ML> even then no two of my signatures have ever been the same... /i/
ML> can tell if i wrote them but others cannot unless they are
ML> professional handwriting experts like the USAF brought in for me
ML> when i had to sign to get my payroll checks: lol:
Train your signature 50 times or more and I am sure it will more or less
constant. ;)
MD>>>>> It's hard to bring new people to FidoNet. Most of old users in
MD>>>>> my city left FidoNet about 5-10 years ago. And it will be
MD>>>>> harder to bring them here. People in my city usually don't want
MD>>>>> /like to learn new languages... I don't know why.
ak>>>> It's clear, the young generation prefers to play games. Absence
ak>>>> of advertising is also very important. Those who do want to talk
ak>>>> constantly hear "Facebook", "Twitter", "Live Journal" etc at
ak>>>> every corner. And a person needs only a computer browser. Easy
ak>>>> access. But you have to collect many information to find your
ak>>>> way to FIDOnet. The GoldEd's pseudo-graphical interface IMHO is
ak>>>> not very attractive for the modern people.
ML>>> agreed... they're fooled by pretty pictures that are specifically
ML>>> designed to make operation much too easy while hiding all the
ML>>> details from them...
ak>> But they can't have interesting discussions. Their chats are like
ak>> bird twitter. Twitter in general is a perfect name for the modern
ak>> messengers.
ML> exactly... and these smartphones and the shorthand they use are not
ML> helping them at all...
I believe that text forums like the ones in FIDONET will be in demand sooner
or later. Probably and very likely FIDONET will use new client software and
maybe will be on-line. Indeed, it is very convenient when your bases and
messages are all in the cloud and you can read it from any device. The main
thing, the software should remember where did you stop, you should have a
possibility to marks messages, copy them to different folders, to search in
messages etc.
ML> r u going 2 dinr 2nite?
ML> gimme a break! it is like that eubonics mess they tried to bring
ML> out some years back... gag!
Maybe after their 30's some people will want to be differ from teenagers?
ak>> books at www.amazon.com. If you like, you can go there and search
ak>> for: Koryagin The Three at the Square of Carronades Koryagin
ak>> Boltik
ML> great! i may very well go look for it... we read a lot of novels
ML> here... i've just finished the complete four book set of DUNE for
ML> the second or third time... it has been at least twenty or twenty-
ML> five years since i read it... a week before,
It is nice that human memory is not perfect. You can return to a good, old
book and have a good time again. ;-)
ML> had also finished
ML> reading the complete set of the Hobbit and Lord of the Ring...
ML> another novel set that i really enjoyed was the eleven or twelve
ML> book set of "The Sword of Truth" by Terry Goodkind... it is like a
ML> pre-midieval time before magic disappeared... each book has a
ML> specific rule, a wizard's rule, that teaches a lot about human
ML> nature... these rules help the protagonist, Richard Cypher... he
ML> doesn't know his real heritage but it is very important to his
ML> destiny and that of the world... the first book is titled "Wizard's
ML> First Rule"... if you read them, do try to read them in order... i
ML> don't know that i can compare "The Sword of Truth" series to "Lord
ML> of the Rings" and "Harry Potter" doesn't even come close...
Unfortunately now I can't read more that half an hour per day. My poor eyes
refuse to read. But there were times when I could read during many hours! :)
ak>> I believe the work has been done well. If I forgot to tell it, the
ak>> books were written by the famous Russian writer Vladislav
ak>> Krapivin. The books, especially the first one, are like beams from
ak>> heaven. I am glad that I had reflected that beams on those
ak>> unfortunate people who were deprived of them. ;-)
ML> and here we are sharing beams of light with each other :)
Although, I have to say that I could not find human warm-heartedness in "Lord
of rings" and "Harry Potter" sagas. Cold things.
ak>> Do you know, in the Russian language a translator and a rail
ak>> switchman do such a job that is expressed by a single verb. ;) It
ak>> is very symbolic.
ML> i did not know that... i've thought several times of possibly
ML> trying to learn russian and other languages from your area... i
ML> haven't been able to pursue that, though... time and money are a
ML> factor: (
IMHO the countries on Earth can be compared with ears that listen to the
Universe energy streams. If a country is lucky it has persons with talents who
write books, poems, songs etc. Russia is a very big ear in this sense. :-)
Bye, Mark!
Alexander Koryagin
ENGLISH_TUTOR 2016
--- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox
* Origin: Quinn's Post - Maryborough, Queensland, OZ (3:640/384)
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