tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8206677169397293052.post3923775218403739162..comments2023-09-10T08:35:25.739-07:00Comments on Street Rat Crazy Saloon: "Ça se laisse vivre" : my daughter, lily of the valleyDinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10907199567928816652noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8206677169397293052.post-54454537871603407732009-09-23T05:40:09.597-07:002009-09-23T05:40:09.597-07:00I have decided that I was initially RIGHT about th...I have decided that I was initially RIGHT about the sewing teacher.<br />It's almost always best to trust your first instincts.<br />I only regret not having thrown out the phrase "Oh, I forgot, ARBEIT MACHT FREI".<br />But... was she old enough to remember the context, or educated enough to know what I referred to ???<br />I'll never know, now.<br />Now, it's just water under the bridge...Debrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01510189619803992336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8206677169397293052.post-65022565588881634602009-09-18T11:33:52.037-07:002009-09-18T11:33:52.037-07:00Actually, I may have been wrong about the sewing t...Actually, I may have been wrong about the sewing teacher. MAYBE... it wasn't a judment.<br />Maybe it was a statement.<br />Who knows ? It's always best to keep an open mind, right ?Debrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01510189619803992336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8206677169397293052.post-64094682289198227192009-09-17T14:40:59.231-07:002009-09-17T14:40:59.231-07:00You're right about the super nice theory I'...You're right about the super nice theory I've used it on occasion myself, works great. Unfortunately I don't always have the patience.<br /><br />SSSShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00906674134853254639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8206677169397293052.post-34966041697852115932009-09-17T14:16:25.133-07:002009-09-17T14:16:25.133-07:00Actually, SS, my daughter had the best response po...Actually, SS, my daughter had the best response possible : she just flashed one of her beautiful, disarming smiles !!<br />Nothing quite like being super nice to vicious people to send them into conundrums... some wisdom from my Grandma.<br />You've lost me on the network theory, Thai... I know nothing about it whatsoever. <br />As I said in the post, the real triumph is in turning insults into compliments...Debrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01510189619803992336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8206677169397293052.post-55963164588064951452009-09-17T12:02:28.414-07:002009-09-17T12:02:28.414-07:00What a great and terrible story. Agree with SS, th...What a great and terrible story. Agree with SS, that is vicious!<br /><br /><br />But in the mean time if this helps your maternal fears and anger at all Deb, it sounds like she will do just fine and common wisdom is just that- common.<br /><br /><br />Education is a bubble, of that I am absolutely 100% positively sure and the internet has nailed its coffin shut forever.<br /><br /><br />... Though reading this I do not see why you say fascism is MORE a problem in the US?... unless you are saying more a problem in the US vs. what the US once knew?<br /><br />Your story kind of reminds me of network theory- lattice vs. scale free networks, etc... And come to think of it a novel sort of on this topic (at least from my point of view) that I once read by Iain Pears titled <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=upJr12VyQuUC&pg=PP1&dq=inauthor:Iain+inauthor:Pears&ei=SIOySv2TNJmuyQTdu8m0Aw#v=onepage&q=&f=false" rel="nofollow">The Dream of Scipio</a> which come to think of it also takes place in Southern France.<br /><br />Curious????? <br /><br />By the way Pears' <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0425167720" rel="nofollow">An Instance of the Fingerpost</a> is another I would squeeze on my top three all time best books list if I could add yet another; it is a historical murder mystery equivalent in some ways to Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver if you have never read it Dink.<br /><br />So many subjects, so little timeThaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00700253024420397221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8206677169397293052.post-32435074194748851022009-09-17T09:46:59.102-07:002009-09-17T09:46:59.102-07:00Deb,
As I know French I have an advantage over th...Deb,<br /><br />As I know French I have an advantage over the others in understanding the opprobrium, dds the seamstress really say Ca se laisse vivre? Rather than Elle se laisse vivre? which would have been bad enough. Were there others in the room? Who was she talking to? The correct response could have been, "Vivre est a la portee de tout le monde," I've found these kind of repartees said with "hauteur" work in disarming the French which is why I'm less fidgety about their rudeness than I might otherwise be. It does get old, I'll admit. That was particularly vicious.<br /><br />For Thai and Dink maybe one could translate as "Another welfare case?" not a literal translation but sort of captures it.<br /><br />SSSShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00906674134853254639noreply@blogger.com