Re: What did you do to or for or with your Laverda today?

Lothar don't sweat it you do just fine and sometimes when someone takes the piss out of you for the way you have put something together then its just a bit of banter l esp if it is coming from down under. Some people have way to much time on their hands and should be out riding their Laverda's instead.

Now just imagine how most ( note not all ) of us would go if the forum was a German one, can you imagine the mess us native English speakers would be in then !

To speak words in a different language is only half the battle as you say as to understand the way they work together ( grammer ) tis something quite different again.

I remember only too well when was in France getting asked on more than one occasion where I was from, when I told them Australia they would say good then you can speak English so we will too. ( I dont think they liked the way I put some of my sentences together in French ) And I worked for a French company for a long time.. I could read technical stuff in a heartbeat but wow when it comes to some other things...

Oh and then we have a Scottish guy at work who has been in Australia many years but a lot of us still struggle to understand what the heck he is on about sometimes we need to get a translator in.

So my friend you do remarkably well dont sweat it one bit

At the end of the day we all speak LAVERDA don't we here.
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Brett said:
Oh and then we have a Scottish guy at work who has been in Australia many years but a lot of us still struggle to understand what the heck he is on about sometimes we need to get a translator in.
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many years ago I was running a 3,000hp Chinese rig in Tunisia down in the desert past Sfax and we had a Scottish Directional driller on the rig, he was complaining to me one night that the Chinese Drillers could not understand a word he said, my reply was, "I am not surprised, I cannot understand a word you say either"

 
Ditto for me with Tommy the Glaswegian high rise crane driver when I was an apprentice, add alcohol and I would just nod and smile.
 
Some 20+ years back a Scots mate 'o mine told me he went to see a Billy Conolly gig in Adelaide. He said he could tell who were the Scottish people in the audience : they all laughed at the punch-lines 3 seconds before everyone else did... :o
 
redax5 said:
many years ago I was running a 3,000hp Chinese rig in Tunisia down in the desert past Sfax and we had a Scottish Directional driller on the rig, he was complaining to me one night that the Chinese Drillers could not understand a word he said, my reply was, "I am not surprised, I cannot understand a word you say either"
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Roddy Lovie by any chance??
 
Thanks, Brett, you are right. Even in the German forum we had situations where a slight different understanding of words written caused someone even to leave the forum as he felt offended. Bad thing...

back to topic: collected the reproduced headers and collector from the exhaust guy for installation on the motoplast, once the engine is completed.
 
Not a lot though moved a couple out of the garage so can do a little spring oops Autumn clean up to make room for the new toy
Helped Vince assemble the tacho drive on his cam box cover
Unpacked the fuse box that Chris K very kindly sent to me and then set a cunning plan to hide a new trick one from the prying eyes of the rivet counters
measured some manifolds to order some new trick rubbers for the RGS carb project
 
After Brett helped with the tacho drive I swooped Rocker covers from the RGS non tacho  one Maurice lent me to mine after Reds mate welded it and Red milled the repair back to the right height. Great to have a tacho back and a non leaking engine. Did an oil change as well,feel less guilty revving them with fresh oil. Time to settle back and watch the Superbike qualifying.
 
Dont overtighten the bloody thing as it will be my fault forgot to give you a tension wrench to take home and use on it MR IRON FIST.
 
thanks, very kind words. I try my best, but can't avoid expressing myself in a "to german way" sometimes. Apologies...  :-[

I hear your whish to be multilingual and can only agree to it, even if I am kind of bi-lingual if you will (working for american companies for the past 20+ years helps a lot...). I truely wished I hadn't stoped learning french when I was young. I whished I could speak italien and spanish (or at least one of it...) I know some basic words in many languages but non of them I can have a conversation in like in english or german. Not more than ordering food and drinks - that kind of things...

Had a team-mate once, she was from the hungarian part of romania with german roots. She fluently spoke
-German
-english
-hungarian
-romanian
-russian
-french

she also was able to read and write in italian and at least read spanish. what an intelligent, open minded, very much lady like woman she was. wonder if she is still allive, I was 25 when I left the company and she was around 60. Don't think she survived the past 25 years with her 30 menthol cigarettes a day...

I can speak six languages, quite well in three of them, and a fair bit in the rest, there is one in which I excel (not English) can anyone guess?
Housa
French
Italian
Spanish
English
Rubbish

yours truly CLEM
 
Paul Marx said:
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After a month of looning around on my new Aprilia 750 whilst my SF was in for maintenance, I soon realised that the garage where my SF is stored had been broken into.  Missing were:
Quite a few ponies.
The front brakes.

The burglar had also welded the steering stem to the bearings so as I couldn't catch him up. I suspect that the frame has been sawed.
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:D.  Switching between bikes is always such fun!  Especially when the gear change and the brakes are on opposite sides ...  :o  :LOL:
 
Made space in the cave for the SF, then ride up the Exe Valley to North Devon coast on the Sprint with ABs 3C for company,blue skies and sun all the way,I d almost forgotten! Greeted by steam trains,calm seas  and cake :D
 
Went on a fundraising ride for Blazeaid today, Didn't know there that many fucking Harleys in Adelaide. Soon peeled off and made my own way, too many dicks; no more mass rides for me. :(
 
No mate, would have been there if I could but I couldn't so I wasn't ???
No, some people can't help themselves, they always have to be in front, enforcing their God given right. Think everybody knows who I mean.
 
Today I started to reassemble my next 3C project, since shifting I have limited access to my tools and the workshop is an open air deal this could be a challenging operation!!
 

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Terry Dymond said:
No mate, would have been there if I could but I couldn't so I wasn't ???
No, some people can't help themselves, they always have to be in front, enforcing their God given right. Think everybody knows who I mean.
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Nothing wrong with people wanting to be in front.. first to see the radar gun.
 
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