Subj : Erratum...  1.
To   : alexander koryagin
From : Ardith Hinton
Date : Tue Feb 20 2018 14:12:27

Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

 AH>  Sounds like a case of the January blahs... a
 AH>  phenomenon well known to North Americans who
 AH>  live some distance from the Equator.

 ak>  Yes, maybe. Now we have frost and sun --


          Assuming from some of your earlier posts that you live in or around 
Moscow & that the prevailing wind comes from the Atlantic Ocean, I reckon the 
situation is comparable to what I know about the more northerly parts of BC & 
about the Canadian prairies.  It's my guess that you don't have anywhere near 
the annual precipitation of Vancouver... where the rain clouds disgorge their 
contents as soon as they hit the mountains... but the snow hangs around until 
late spring.  In our case, Mother Nature is making up for the absence of rain 
last summer & we've had little else since early November.

          Years ago, I enjoyed reading what Erma Bombeck & Peg Bracken had to 
say about housewifery.  One or the other made a comment to the effect that it 
wasn't the cooking she minded so much as the dailiness.  I don't mind rain so 
much as the dailiness whereas you may feel the same way about snow... [grin].



 ak>  probably it will be nice to have a couple kilometers
 ak>  on skis and a red nose.


          Yes, physical exercise is a known mood elevator.  So is sunshine... 
especially if one can get outdoors during the daylight hours.

          There are many situations occurring at this time of year over which 
one has little or no control.  As a university student, I well understood why 
the suicide rate tends to peak in mid-January.  You get two weeks off... then 
you get five or six major assignments within two days.  Others feel depressed 
when the bills start rolling in.  The credit card company wants money.  Every 
club or association you've ever belonged to wants money.  You have to pay the 
deductible before your medical insurance kicks in.  The city wants you to pay 
half the taxes they're planning to bill you next June.  The list goes on & on
.... but if you can play in the snow I'd suggest seizing the opportunity.  :-)



 ak>  Oh, English articles is my favourite subject.


          Good!  We won't run out of things to talk about any time soon.  ;-)



 ak>  I still don't have a good map of this forest. ;=)


          The subject is complex... and I gather the use of articles is quite 
different in Russian.  In English we sometimes say people can't see the woods 
for the trees, meaning they're so preoccupied with minor details that they're 
unable to grasp the big picture.  OTOH maps also have their shortcomings, and 
there are times when it makes sense to follow the lay of the land.

          WRT articles, your asking about the use of articles in a particular 
context works for me.  That way we can both study the woods a bit at a time & 
the sort of map you'd like will emerge as we put these bits together....  :-)




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