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[gerbie]

I liked LJ better when a search for a certain interest gave a double digit result. Now you get over a 1000 and the trained monkeys stop searching after that. It's too big, how am I supposed to find likeminded people if thousands of people share the same interests..

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[sarahcarotte.livejournal.com]

Serendipity?

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[gerbie.livejournal.com]

Which is how you ended reading my LJ?


(I have to admit, I had to use the dictionary to get the exact meaning. And yes, you're right, it is a nice way, still not very reliable though...)

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[sarahcarotte.livejournal.com]

Yes sir.

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[gerbie.livejournal.com]

Sir? I never knew I had an army rank!

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[sarahcarotte.livejournal.com]

You don't have to have a rank, silly, you just have to be in the southeast US. You are older than me. However, since neither of us is a southerner in that sense, I guess I will call you Gerbie.

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[gerbie.livejournal.com]

Noticed you have been checking out my old website as well! And southeast US was fun to travel, but after a couple of weeks I had had enough.

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[sarahcarotte.livejournal.com]

I've toured there twice, so a total of about six months. I mastered the accent enough to convince most southerners I was from somehwere else in the south. I get a kick out of that. Also messing with the minds of the gypsies in the markets in Europe.

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[gerbie.livejournal.com]

So how would a gypsy on a market in Europe notice the difference between any north american accents?

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[sarahcarotte.livejournal.com]

He wouldn't. But he wouldn't notice the difference between an American or British accent, but long before that he would determine my nationality by the way I walk or stand or make eye contact or the volume at which I speak to my companions and how often I touch them. I could trick them into thinking I was German, French, British, and American, but I never mastered Italian which is what I working on by the time I moved back here.

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[gerbie.livejournal.com]

No foreigner ever learns Italian. One could learn the language (I tried, I failed), one could even speak it fluent, but then the difficult part would still be there to master: Non verbal! I would love to be able to use only half the gestures the average Italian uses every day.

I want to go back!

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[sarahcarotte.livejournal.com]

I could master the gestures, it was the walking. That and I'm just to blond and curvy to be convincingly Italian.

[gerbie.livejournal.com]

So walking is more complicated than talking? Never heard that theory before. Interesting.

But if you don't mind, it's way beyond 2am, time to get a few hours of sleep. It seems like you could do without the screen for a bit as well, seeing as you must have been online for a fair while at least twice today :-))

Take care, nice talking to you!