[WTT] Problems I didn't expect

[Jacques Hausser]

[WTT]: Worse than totally tangential

Dear all,

I'm just back from the "Escalade" commemoration in Geneva, some very  
nice hours with mulled wine and vegetable soup and historical parade (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Escalade 
) and I discover 38 new messages from the list. Avalanche. I deeply  
enjoy every day to read these messages, but I'm feeling some  
frustration because
1) when I actually have a good answer to a question asked on the list,  
they are zillions of answers better than mine already posted. How do  
you deal with that ? It would be a full-time job just to keep the  
pace... If somebody has a good strategy, thank you to share it.
2) Even with the sophisticated semantic explanations of experts like  
Richmond*, I miss half of the jokes (which are more than half of the  
pleasure). Could some bilingual french-english guru (Eric ?) post a  
short lexicon of expressions and abbreviations used ? (I got HTH by  
myself, but it's a rare success amidst many failures...). Sorry, but  
my education included German (totally lost), Latin and classical  
Greek, and my English was just picked out empirically, without any  
formal teaching...

Thanks in advance - and do not hesitate to send your answer(s) out of  
the list if you feel it's [OT] - (is [OT] OK ?)

Jacques

* Richmond, I remember a statue of an old deaf guy in the street in  
Plovdiv - I liked him - is he still there ? Reading some of the  
messages on this list, I'm feeling like him...

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