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Post 41

OwlofDoom

That was the idea - only close family and friends attended and we went for a meal at an Italian restaurant afterwards - all very informal and unconventional ... we still have all the convention to come... smiley - winkeye

~ smiley - towel


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Post 42

Methos (one half of the HHH Management)

So does that mean you will have a traditional wedding? Nitina all in white and everything?

Methos smiley - peacedove


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Post 43

OwlofDoom

Our wedding in Cyprus will be a mixture of Cypriot and British traditions, with a fair whack of modern stuff thrown in too. As far as the colour of Nitina's dress is concerned, she's keeping stumm (old tradition that if the groom doesn't see the dress beforehand it brings good luck) but I guess it'll be white, or some kind of off-white. smiley - smiley

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Post 44

Methos (one half of the HHH Management)

God, that sounds really nice.

Have you been to Cyrpus before or will you meet Nitina's family for the first time this summer?

Methos smiley - peacedove


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Post 45

OwlofDoom

Nah, I've been over there a few times before - she was travelling all over the world for her degree (well, France & Germany) so I was used to travelling to see her anyway.

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Post 46

Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat

(Sorry to butt in on this conversation so late - I hope you don't mind. smiley - winkeye Warning: post will be long and meandering.)

My degree will be four years long, as it's computer science with German. (Wie geht's?) The third year is spent in Germany, probably in a German university, or possibly teaching English in a school (which is apparently not recommended for CS students). All language students have to do that. Except maybe students of Welsh... I think you'd just go to a bar to pick up Welsh smiley - drunk Seriously though, I don't know of anywhere outside Wales where people speak Welsh.

By the way, Owl in "Winnie-the-Pooh" spelled his name "WOL" smiley - laugh

And "ontology" is a philosophical term meaining "the study of what exists"... as in the ontological argument for the existence of God, which tries to prove that God, by definition, must exist.

I seem to have a photographic short-term memory... I find it easier to do mental arithmetic (e.g. long multiplication) by sort of creating a slate in my mind and writing on it... if you see what I mean. You know the way you do long multiplication on paper? I visualise that layout and work through it in my head.

Hmm, Russian... how much do I know? Let's see... "Ya student". Ok, that's cheating, it's not true for three months yet. smiley - winkeye Hmm... "Tü student". Ah, that's better smiley - smiley I've got a "teach yourself Russian" book. It's hard. Mostly, I think, because it makes little use of tables for presenting grammatical info, but also because of the weird letters.


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Post 47

OwlofDoom

Hi Pete! smiley - smiley

I tend to agree with you on most of this. Didn't know you were taking German too (that's one of Nitina's subjects)...

I knew that about Owl in Winnie-the-Pooh, but I'm not sure the w3c had it in mind when they named the Web Ontology Language...

On the subject of ontologies, you're right and wrong. "An ontology" is a computer science thing... see <http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Query=ontology&Database=foldoc> definitions 2 and 3. "Ontology", OTOH, is what you're talking about.

I've got myself a "Teach Yourself Greek" book - is yours also that series of black books, with the square "ty" logo? I'm not particularly keen on the Greek one, as it dives you in at the deep end quite a lot - I think it's intended for people who are used to learning languages, or at least have a dictionary to hand...

~ smiley - towel


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Post 48

Methos (one half of the HHH Management)

Welcome Pete!

I just love the thing with the "born in the year of the lab rat" smiley - winkeye

Did I get that right - you're only starting to study? Have fun then.

Concerning Russian - the weird letters are not a problem for me since I had to learn them for Mongolian already. But I miss tables for grammatic info, too. Our teacher is not too good in that respect.

And I want a memory like yours!

Methos smiley - peacedove


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