Subj : Erratum... 1. To : Ardith Hinton From : alexander koryagin Date : Fri Feb 23 2018 01:49:24 Hi, Ardith Hinton! I read your message from 20.02.2018 08:12 about Erratum... 1.. AH>> Sounds like a case of the January blahs... a phenomenon well known AH>> to North Americans who live some distance from the Equator. ak>> Yes, maybe. Now we have frost and sun -- AH> Assuming from some of your earlier posts that you live in or around AH> Moscow & that the prevailing wind comes from the Atlantic Ocean, I AH> reckon the situation is comparable to what I know about the more AH> northerly parts of BC & about the Canadian prairies. A normal Moscow winter should be cold. Minus 10C is the norm. When winds go from the Atlantic Ocean we have thaws. AH> It's my guess AH> that you don't have anywhere near the annual precipitation of AH> Vancouver... where the rain clouds disgorge their contents as soon AH> as they hit the mountains... but the snow hangs around until late AH> spring. In our case, Mother Nature is making up for the absence of AH> rain last summer & we've had little else since early November. The near ocean gives a lot of snow, but it probably should also provide a mild winter, without heavy frosts. AH> Years ago, I enjoyed reading what Erma Bombeck & Peg Bracken had to AH> say about housewifery. One or the other made a comment to the AH> effect that it wasn't the cooking she minded so much as the AH> dailiness. I don't mind rain so much as the dailiness whereas you AH> may feel the same way about snow... [grin]. Change "snow" for "frost" and you will like snow dailiness. ;-) They say a human can be accustomed to anything but cold. ak>> probably it will be nice to have a couple kilometers on skis and a ak>> red nose. AH> Yes, physical exercise is a known mood elevator. So is sunshine... AH> especially if one can get outdoors during the daylight hours. AH> There are many situations occurring at this time of year over which AH> one has little or no control. As a university student, I well AH> understood why the suicide rate tends to peak in mid-January. You AH> get two weeks off... then you get five or six major assignments AH> within two days. Others feel depressed when the bills start rolling Especially hard are the bills sent by bad decisions of your life. It seems to me that a bad memory appears when it becomes a remedy. ;-) ak>> Oh, English articles is my favourite subject. AH> 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. ;=) AH> The subject is complex... and I gather the use of articles is quite AH> different in Russian. In English we sometimes say people can't see AH> the woods for the trees, meaning they're so preoccupied with minor AH> details that they're unable to grasp the big picture. OTOH maps AH> also have their shortcomings, and there are times when it makes AH> sense to follow the lay of the land. Another problem is that poor eyes don't allow to read much. AH> WRT articles, your asking about the use of articles in a particular AH> context works for me. That way we can both study the woods a bit at AH> a time & the sort of map you'd like will emerge as we put these AH> bits together.... :-) So may it be. Bye, Ardith! Alexander Koryagin ENGLISH_TUTOR 2018 --- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox * Origin: Quinn's Post - Maryborough, Queensland, OZ (3:640/384) .