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Old 03-09-2009, 12:17 PM   #46
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... The librarian picked up the phone and called my daddy to get *him* to explain to me that no one was allowed to take a volume of the encyclopedia out of the library.
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Old 03-09-2009, 09:54 PM   #47
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?? Why would someone lie?
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While I find it interesting when a preferred "speciality" is placed under the statistical microscope, I think that the above question gets to the crux of the matter. People lie about a lot of things, and "reading" is just another item of minutiae around which the question could be asked, with, I suspect, little difference in statistical result. People lie. Well, not me, I don't lie.

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Old 03-10-2009, 01:28 AM   #48
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I think that it is more a case of people being too embarrassed to admit that they haven't read some of the classics.

Such people could do worse than to order this book by Pierre Bayard:

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
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Old 03-10-2009, 05:27 AM   #49
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Hmmm. In my day, all female teachers were "Miss" and all male ones "Sir" .
In *my* day we had to address all teachers "comrade teacher"

Comrade meaning:
Genosse in German
товарищ, tovarishch in Russian
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Old 03-10-2009, 06:29 AM   #50
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In *my* day we had to address all teachers "comrade teacher"

Comrade meaning:
Genosse in German
товарищ, tovarishch in Russian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comrade
The second headmistress at my primary school had a last name very similar to that, although I can't remember now exactly what it was. I do remember the whole class (and presumably the whole school) being coached in how to say it before she started.
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Old 03-10-2009, 06:06 PM   #51
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According to Reuters:
....According to the survey, 65 percent of people have pretended to have read books, and of those, 42 percent singled out "1984." Next on the list came "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy and in third place was James Joyce's "Ulysses."...
OMG! You mean I slogged through War and Peace while everyone else was lying about reading it?

Thats as bad as my golf handicap: honesty!
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1984 is one of my favourites to be honest, read it twice. However I do lie when I say I've read Tolstoy, I read like 50 pages of War and Peace, bored the hell out of me!
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1984 is one of my favourites to be honest, read it twice. However I do lie when I say I've read Tolstoy, I read like 50 pages of War and Peace, bored the hell out of me!
I can say I've read Tolstoy without lying.

Nikolai, that is, not Leo

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