pontios
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Συμφωνώ.
3 or 4 or my posts were responses to cougr, you and one was to Despina, and I was merely carrying on with the discussion.
I agreed with your post #16 and added that the syntax was also a problem.
And I wasn't making alternative suggestions. I was wondering if it could/would have been stated as "teething problems" as a hypothetical, if the original was in english.
And I didn't think it was just about the title.
"Το επίμαχο σημείο είναι:
"[...] οι τάσεις αυτές δεν παρουσιάζονται με ιδανική μορφή, έχουνε τις αρρώστιες τους, παιδικές όπως θα έλεγε ο Λένιν, γεροντικές όπως είναι σήμερα".
Το οποίο μετάφρασα: "[...] these tendencies are not manifested in an ideal form, they have their disorders, infantile as Lenin would call them, senile as they are today".
I think "geriatric" works better than senile or is an alternative to it, at least ... so some good might have come out of it.
I only choose a few threads here and there, and I enjoy the discussion, but I probably do concentrate too much into those few (threads).
I acknowledge this.
I will limit my posting ... and I'll wait until the end of the threads from now on.
3 or 4 or my posts were responses to cougr, you and one was to Despina, and I was merely carrying on with the discussion.
I agreed with your post #16 and added that the syntax was also a problem.
And I wasn't making alternative suggestions. I was wondering if it could/would have been stated as "teething problems" as a hypothetical, if the original was in english.
And I didn't think it was just about the title.
"Το επίμαχο σημείο είναι:
"[...] οι τάσεις αυτές δεν παρουσιάζονται με ιδανική μορφή, έχουνε τις αρρώστιες τους, παιδικές όπως θα έλεγε ο Λένιν, γεροντικές όπως είναι σήμερα".
Το οποίο μετάφρασα: "[...] these tendencies are not manifested in an ideal form, they have their disorders, infantile as Lenin would call them, senile as they are today".
I think "geriatric" works better than senile or is an alternative to it, at least ... so some good might have come out of it.
I only choose a few threads here and there, and I enjoy the discussion, but I probably do concentrate too much into those few (threads).
I acknowledge this.
I will limit my posting ... and I'll wait until the end of the threads from now on.
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