Breaking Through, Travelling On

Cheery_Daff

oh dear :rotfl: :rotfl: (I don't know the difference either :rotfl: )

gallygirl

Karmacat wrote: »

I don't know the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs :eek:

I'm sure I know once I see an example of each, but their multi-choice don't quite work like that :rotfl:I'd shoot myself if I could stop laughing ironically

I didn't have a clue either. Looked it up and decided it's not going to enhance my life by remembering. So forgotten it already . Or should I say:
I forgot the definition.
Or
I forgot

Karmacat

Oh very good

And thats a bit like Neville forgetting his Remembrall

Intransitive is intransigent because its stuck there on its own - there's no object for it, even if there's other stuff like prepositions etc.

It makes me think back to when I was au pairing - the only French class I could find was a literacy class for Algerians. I could name the tense just fine - future perfect or whatever, but I couldn't actually conjugate it whereas my classmates could, but they didn't know the name of the tense. And I think we know which is more useful :rotfl:

gallygirl

And thats a bit like Neville forgetting his Remembrall

Yup, followed that

Intransitive is intransigent because its stuck there on its own - there's no object for it,

Yup, and that

even if there's other stuff like prepositions etc.

Nope, lost me again :rotfl:

It makes me think back to when I was au pairing - the only French class I could find was a literacy class for Algerians. I could name the tense just fine - future perfect or whatever, but I couldn't actually conjugate it whereas my classmates could, but they didn't know the name of the tense. And I think we know which is more useful :rotfl:

That's what worries me - if I want to learn Spanish properly I need to learn English first . I do have English A level - obviously that was literature not language though :rotfl:.

Karmacat

Gally :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

You have some level of a Romance language, though, don't you, Gally? You'll be fine - I only have French A level, and after 3 months I came back dreaming in French. And I picked up social level Spanish and Italian by travelling alone for about a month in each country (enough to argue with Italians who wanted me to get married ). You'll be fine!

gallygirl

Karmacat wrote: »

Gally :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

You have some level of a Romance language, though, don't you, Gally? You'll be fine - I only have French A level, and after 3 months I came back dreaming in French. And I picked up social level Spanish and Italian by travelling alone for about a month in each country (enough to argue with Italians who wanted me to get married ). You'll be fine!

O level French at 2nd attempt .

Karmacat

Awww! Give yourself a chance to learn, though - don't hide away from it. At least they've got the same alphabet as us!

I've been fiddling about with photos for the book cover, and using text to get the title and my pseudonym up there ... having had a look at what's available on Amazon, I can see why people do it the way they do it. I just need to take some more photos so I don't lop the tops off things with the title, and I'll be away :j

Goldiegirl

Karmacat wrote: »

I don't know the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs :eek:

Well, I didn't know either and I thought my grammar was okay:o


They certainly want you to jump through a lot of hoops to get registered!

Goldiegirl

Karmacat wrote: »

I've been fiddling about with photos for the book cover, and using text to get the title and my pseudonym up there ... having had a look at what's available on Amazon, I can see why people do it the way they do it.

How exciting, to have a pseudonym!


I'd definitely need one, as I share a name with a published author.


Is it like your actress name (your first pet's name and the name of your road) or your Downton Abbey name ( grandparents first name and your school's name.)


I can reveal that Mr Goldie and my Downton names are Richard Shaftesbury and Isabella Gray .......we sound very above stairs!

Karmacat

Ooh! I forgot I could use my actress name :rotfl:I used to know it as a !!!!!! actress with mother's maiden name. Mine would be Swan Shepherd (I had a white mouse ) which is pretty good, I think

My Downton name would be Eva May Sudley or Blanche Sudley, I think thats probably 'tween stairs :rotfl:

Thats a lot of fun and I love "Blanche"

Couldn't do the photos this afternoon, the muse wasn't there :cool: so I worked on the brambles in the garden, got rid of a bit of builder's subsoil, and did some more editing of the book that the photos are for. I wrote it in Open Office, and transferred it into Word after it had been proof read - bad decision! A lot of the formatting seems to have been lost, maybe because it was a comparatively long document as Open Office text goes.

Business partner and I had a natter .... he still wants me to dye my hair and apply to J Date :rotfl: he's a bit fixated



ETA - I like your names - tres chic!

The thing about a pseudonym, I dunno, partly because its a weird book, and partly because I'm still an active counsellor/therapist, and there's no way I want to have clients with that knowledge, its a lot for me and a lot for them.