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The Retirement Home / Let's guess idioms
2015 Jul 25, 11:54:38
(Please, someone having permissions, if you can, fix this text so that it doesn't look as terrible as it probably looks in this language now. And remove this paragraph)

Let me create a new thread game.
In this game you need to guess an encrypted phraseme or idiom and encrypt own one, for what you must explain a literal sense through the most complex associations. It may be exciting.

Examples:

Jack is the top-manager of a market. He goes and checks and controls all processes of buying and selling. Jack is everywhere.

A jack of all trades.
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To cause damage to a moving flow of air with the fist.

To beat the wind.
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I am seller, I sell plastic human limbs. Do you want to buy a one?

Do you need a hand?


I think the game rules should be:
If you are totally sure that you know a correct answer of the phraseme above you, you need to post a one and put forth own encrypted phraseme.
If you are not sure that you know that, please, refrain from commenting.
If for some time, for example, for three days, no one has answered your idiom, you can (if you want) do it yourself and put forth another.
The opposite is true, if you see that another's idiom remains unheeded, and moreover, you are at loss to answer, you can say "I can't guess what it's" and put forth own one.

I am a foreigner, and I find it difficult to orientate in English phrasemes (and even these examples I made with great difficulty, and I am not sure that correctly even). In this way, I, perhaps, will not active participate in this game (if it at least will be popular). However, if the community allows it (If someone will say "allow"), I will offer to foreigners to use their expressions for their compatriots. Of course, in English and with corresponding marks and explanations. It may be even funnier.

For example:

(Russian)
To fraction hydrogen oxide with an analogue of a quern.

To pestle the water with a mortar.
(To do useless work)


I begin:
To use a building tool to get coconut meat.
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Introductions Archive / Greeting
2015 Jul 24, 09:31:07
Good day, everyone.

I see that new users sometimes post here similar postcards-greetings. One in sixty-four of users do it (in my knowledge, there is 148000 accounts and 2300 introductions here). Perhaps, I also shouldn't miss this custom. Here is my story:

I am from a large Euro-Asian country, where locals wear a hat with earflaps all year round, where an impenetrable coniferous forest grows right in a city, and where brown bears arm-in-arm with locals dance to the balalaika and sing the song "Kalinka Malinka" on the Red Square. Heh, definitely, I like this good-natured stereotype about crazy Russians. However, I hate one other stereotype about us... well, never mind.

(I smiled, when I saw one phrase in topic about an un-English communication "those Russians are coming here and beginning to talk in their Russian language. They are too many". Heh, [pona'yekhali tut] ("They came to here" - Russian meme about gastarbeiters and villagers, who came to live in Moscow). OK, I promise, I won't speak in Russian in public places)

I am not a brony, and even am not a fan of MLP (I'm a fan of one other world, for which I create something, as same as you create something for MLP). And unlikely I will choose your way: I have known about this show already several months, and the progress isn't still gonna be started. But the show, activity around it, and just your community are interesting enough to me. Yes, I'm interesting in, how you live and what your life is. I really can't explain a reason of that.

Actually, I came here for personal gain: I'm interested (I have used this word the third times already, but this is the most accurate one of those that I know) in English. I cannot say, that I'm learning it (in the latter case, I should do it more systematically), but I feel, that I need the practice, at least written one (I don't hope to get oral one). Inasmuch as I know something about you, bronies, about your peacefulness and about your desire to help to people, who has your interests (actually, and not only to they), I sure, you will not kick away a foreigner (so many you have already accumulated them) also for what one so-so knows your language (though, it may be funny even. I'd very like to see a foreigner, who began to learn Russian (and, I guess, there is such users here)) or one is doing something wrong. Of course, I sure, there is other resources somewhere, which can to suit to me, for example, some (other) pony-imageboards. But it's impossible to sit on all chairs, and your one looks quite comfortable. Probably, I will remain as a bystander, but I hope that I will find a way to repay you with some equivalent thing. It would be fairly.


And please, dear friend-moderators, don't suggest me don't to forget to check the Forum Rules or to get my piece of the Fun. I have already done the first and caught the second, really (yes, I've caught it, just when I was reading the forum). Thanks.

(It's very interesting to me, how many times I have made various kinds of mistakes in this text... I hope, I at least was able to express my thoughts correctly enough)