Subj : From a book
To   : Ardith Hinton
From : Alexander Koryagin
Date : Fri Oct 26 2018 20:33:54

Hi, Ardith Hinton!
I read your message from 25.10.2018 12:46

 AK>> As we say in Russia, I am listening to
 AH> |i.e. listening to what Paul is saying?

Yes.

 AK>> and wind it on my whisker.
 AH> |"winding" would make a better parallelism here.

 AH> Like a man twirling his handlebar moustache? Cute....

It is a Russian idiom. Long ago, when a person heard an interesting piece of 
information he would wind his whisker around his finger contemplating it. :) 
Why does it help to memorize or think? I suspect it is in the same way as nape 
scratching helps. ;-)

 AK>> I hope I will have some more questions, reading that book.

 AH> As do I! IMHO you ask interesting questions, and if it weren't for
 AH> people like you I'd be talking to myself & enjoying the echo a lot
 AH> less. :-))

Do you know that some people created Fidonet clients for mobile phones and 
tablet computers. So we can expect that some day new people will join us. IMHO 
the Fidonet style text messaging makes chats more intelligent. People will 
recall what the forgot.

 AK>> I read it because a paper book is much better for language
 AK>> learning than the e-version of a book. I can make marks and
 AK>> remarks with my pencil.

 AH> I often did that as a university student, when I was reading French
 AH> novels & had to buy my own textbooks. IMHO the bit you cited here
 AH> is on a par with some of the flowery descriptions where I made a
 AH> lot of notes too....

I wonder when will they invent an e-book where I will be able to make remarks 
using a digital stylus pen? :)

Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2018

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