In a textbook "Short stories", by Olly Richards I read
the story "Daring Diabolo" where a criminal boss says to
his wife that this town is not needed for the law.
"There is no law for me. And there ain't no law needed
for this town either!"
In his comment the teacher (Olly Richards) tells that
"ain't" is a slang, an informal way to say and write
"am not", "are not", "is not", "has not" or "have not".
Well, let's get the full version, without the slang:
"There is no law for me. And there is not no law needed
for this town either!"
I can't see the sense, although I think I know what he
means. ;)
in his watered-down cover to Fats Domino's hit.
In a textbook "Short stories", by Olly Richards I
read the story "Daring Diabolo"
In his comment the teacher (Olly Richards) tells that
"ain't" is a slang,
an informal way to say and write "am not", "are not",
"is not", "has not" or "have not".
"There is no law for me. And there ain't no law needed
for this town either!"
I can't see the sense, although I think I know what
he means. ;)
Olly Richards obviously tried to make his pupils to see
in their imagination some bright images.
I was given this textbook by a man who studied English
in California when he was a boy.
As for me I read any book got in my hands. :)
Another fun I notice was the way the Americans use the
word "shorts". Until now I was sure that shorts are a
kind of short trousers.
But it seems were underpants -
Yes, there is a style of male underpants known as "boxer
shorts"... I think that's what the author was referring
to.
I also presume that while this guy was invisible his
clothing may not have been, and he felt rather uncertain
as to what the monsters could see. :-Q
As for me I read any book got in my hands. :)
(but I am rather scrupulous as to what I lay my hands on)Probably it depends on the number of books.
And I especially mean a real paper books. I feel more
pleasure reading them, marking words, phrases etc.
As for me I read any book got in my hands.
(but I am rather scrupulous as to what I lay my hands on)
Probably it depends on the number of books.I failed to make a joke. It was inspired by one about Windows:
-- They say Windows is user-friendly. -- But it is very picky about
whom it calls a friend!
And I especially mean a real paper books. I feel more pleasure
reading them, marking words, phrases etc.
I too prefer paper books, but anti-Russia sactions have made them
very hard to buy abroad.
-- They say Windows is user-friendly. -- But it is
very picky about whom it calls a friend!
You probably didn't meet system where a user should type
type commands manually. ;)
Have been to Moscow sometimes? There are shops with
English literature there.
No, I have had (asexual) intercourse with such systems:So you should know what is more friendly for a user. ;)
MS-DOS and Linux.
Long ago when fidonet was a quiet populous place
For old MSDOS games I use DosBox -- works on new
computers well.
If I need old Windows versions for some reason I use
VMWare. I have some soft that works on Windows 98 only.
;)
"Quite" is IMHO a very often used English word-parasite.
;-)
https://tinyurl.com/y5fnbnyw
The last time I saw it, VMWare did not support integer
scaling without interpolation...
It is not perfect, I know.
Not long ago I installed Ubuntu on VmWare -- it shows
split letters. Shame! :)
Congratulations upon capitalisation of your name :-)
It was the initiative of Tommi's gate, not mine.
Long ago when fidonet was a quiet populous place
there were many people with initials AK, and it
was confusing to have discussions with them. So
I modestly had made my initials small. ;)
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