its great to have a *negativeoutlook*

hi ya Tim.....
its great to see you


how have ya been??? have you gotten any snow yet??? hows the dog....Angel...is that her name??

Fuck yeah! Welcome Tim...

Wow! Thanks for the nice reception! I have been visiting this and the other Human Soup forum almost daily. I think it's cool y'all put the effort into maintaining all the communication particularly from the COC and Down boards.

I haven't been posting a great deal lately but I have been lurking for sure.

No snow yet but we got a lot of rain , lightning, hail, and even a funnel cloud in the last couple of days. There is lot's of snow in the mountains right now.

Angel is still kicking...starting to age a bit.

I've been really busy at work, just flew in from Chicago the night before last...still tired.

Anyway, thanks for the welcome!

it's been a while

Hola, negativeoutlook!

E 'bello essere qui nel cyberspazio con persone di tutto vi impressionante e intelligente.

You spoke Italian! You really made me feel at home!

I've have no foreign language skills (6 years of Spanish and I can ask for eggs & milk) - but did N.O. just say you were the prettiest, smartest, on the net whom makes a big impact? Just curious....he forgot "hawt mistress of metal"

Well, to be fair, the post starts in a perfect Italian, but, even if all the words do exist, the sense of the sentence gets more and more confused through the end... I took he said I'm "smart" and "impressive" (even if impressionante may mean scaring in Italian... but I hope that's not what he meant!) and, well, I'm flattered enough by it, so I won't be picky on the hawt mistress of metal!
And still it was nice to read some Italian!

Caio!

Dolce Madre! I should have taken Italian instead of Spanish - sadly it was never offered anywhere I went to school (even at the crummy college I went to)!!

Caldo Padrona di METAL... is that right? I don't know anymore.

My Italian is not the best...I tried to learn it about 20 years ago. I wish I would have stuck with it. It is a beautiful language. I went through this time period where I tried to learn a few languages...after all was said and done, Mandarin Chinese is what I eventually became "almost" fluent with. I hired a private tutor and would practice with quite a few people daily. Italian was my 2nd best but I had no one to practice with other than writing and receiving occasional letters in the mail from Italian fanzine punkrocker types.
I dropped Finnish like a hot potato when I realized it was impossible. Never mind the rest..........

For the record, I tried to impress Iyloma by saying "It's good to be here in cyberspace with all of you intelligent and interesting people."


Leave it to me to butcher a sentence...when I first was speaking Chinese, I accidentally accused a customer of stealing (with my poor sentence structure and inflections.) He emptied his pockets on a table and stood back after I thought I thanked him and said to have a nice day. I was embarassed after I realized what he thought I meant, but was strangely intrigued that he was not offended.

Southern English is my native language, y'all.

Nah, you didn't butcher the sentence this time. If you only had used the plural for the 2 adjectives I would have been able to understand its sense. So, all in all, good job, Tim!
If you're curious to know how I would say it in Italian, it'd be "E' bello essere qui nel cyberspazio con tutti voi, persone intelligenti e interessanti." See, pretty close, Tim, pretty close!

Ah, and it'd be "Calda padrona del Metal" -- yep, we have the femminine for the adjectives. But it sounds silly in Italian anyway, sooo...

Well, I guess it's enough for our Italian lesson!
... It's good to pretend I can teach you something, since any time I read your posts I learn something new, guys!

Iyloma, thanks for taking the time to explain/teach Italian grammar!!!
La tua lezione di lingua è molto apprezzato.
Maybe I will eventually try to pick it up again.