Re: Re: something interesting - Not acceptable!

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> > On Friday, May 27, 2005, at 02:28 PM, dumbaussie2000 wrote:> > > Here in australia and even new zealand the french are disliked> > immensley (due to there arrogance). I now understand those> > feeling's. I actually think the americans feel the same way toward's> > the french, if I'm not wrong.

I am not worried one tiny bit about Tony's opinion re what Australians (or NZders, or Americans) think of "the French". This is so pathetic it is laughable.

I am French, I am also Australian (but get your teeth into this one, Tony, I lived in Sydney, if you want to get going on this as well:)))) so for me it's "heads" I win, "tails" I win too )

I know all about all the difficulties involved in communicating across cultures, my field of research was ethnolinguistics, I lived in several countries, taught people from the world over, and all I care about really is getting there and "getting there" as far as this group is concerned is exchanging info on infections and inflammation, diagnoses and treatments.

I can't write or read very much because my eyes and head are very, very sore most of the time, so I get annoyed when Tony raves on and on about things that are not getting us anywhere because we are ALREADY where he thinks he is taking us.

I promise this is the last from me, re Tony or replying to him in any way or form

Nelly (in very hot, sunny PARIS-FRANCE)

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I tried to send this message by private email to Nelly, but my email program refused to do it..

NELLY,

Congratulations on living in the marvelous city of Paris! I have only been there once, but I loved it, and I found (most) of the people in Paris charming. I even found the ones who were rude interesting, too, because they were rude in different ways than in the U.S. I do think there are differences in culture between (at least the Parisian) French and people in the US, and I think some people might mistake the French reserve for rudeness, and their (sometimes) formal ways of speaking and acting as rude. Since I was aware of that before I went, I found the French charming.

Also, I have a friend of some years who has CFS/ME, and she has now rented an apartment in Paris full time. I asked her why she chose Paris, and she said that aside from all the usual beauties and advantages of the city, she found it easy to get around for a person with CFS/ME, because of the metro. Also, she had a dizzy spell in her apartment in Paris, fell and cut her head on the corner of her coffee table; her next-door neighbor (an opera singer) heard her cries and came and called a doctor who made a house call. This would be unheard-of in the US--Doctors just do not make house calls here.

And now I ask the listmembers to forgive me taking the list time for this message.

Re: [infections] Re: something interesting - Not acceptable!

> > On Friday, May 27, 2005, at 02:28 PM, dumbaussie2000 wrote:> > > Here in australia and even new zealand the french are disliked> > immensley (due to there arrogance). I now understand those> > feeling's. I actually think the americans feel the same way toward's> > the french, if I'm not wrong.

I am not worried one tiny bit about Tony's opinion re what Australians (or NZders, or Americans) think of "the French". This is so pathetic it is laughable.

I am French, I am also Australian (but get your teeth into this one, Tony, I lived in Sydney, if you want to get going on this as well:)))) so for me it's "heads" I win, "tails" I win too )

I know all about all the difficulties involved in communicating across cultures, my field of research was ethnolinguistics, I lived in several countries, taught people from the world over, and all I care about really is getting there and "getting there" as far as this group is concerned is exchanging info on infections and inflammation, diagnoses and treatments.

I can't write or read very much because my eyes and head are very, very sore most of the time, so I get annoyed when Tony raves on and on about things that are not getting us anywhere because we are ALREADY where he thinks he is taking us.

I promise this is the last from me, re Tony or replying to him in any way or form

Nelly (in very hot, sunny PARIS-FRANCE)