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[quote user="RumziGal"][quote user="Blitzen"][ It depends what you mean by naturally!  Personally speaking, I am always myself. I'm communicating, naturally, and at least we're both making an effort to bridge the language barrier.[8-|] [/quote]  ... you can chat about anything from politics to football, ...  [/quote] Maybe there is a bright side to not being to fluent!!!! [:D]

[quote user="RumziGal"] I suppose it depends how well you want to know people! If neither of you are communicating naturally, neither of you are being yourselves.   So who are you being, and who is they being? [/quote] It depends what you mean by naturally!  Personally speaking, I am always myself. I'm communicating, naturally, and at least we're both making an effort to bridge the language barrier.[8-|]

Down the side of the couch! [:P]

In your car?????[:-))]

Well, it seems to me this is the delight of this kind of forum.  This kind of open ended question gives a wide range of scope, and I would rather define some of the 'petty bickering' as 'good-natured banter'.  [:D]

[quote user="wen"] How many English leave England because of the foreigners moving there? [/quote] We're moving to France because we can't afford to buy a halfway decent house in UK. Some of the best conversations I've had, have been where I speak 'my french, and the person I'm speaking to speaks 'their English'!![:D]

Some useful information, my father gave me years ago, which  is how to put out a chimney fire. Throw salt on the fire.Then cover contents of fireplace with a damp piece of sacking or fairly heavy cloth.Do not throw water on the fire!Mind you I hope you never have to use this advice! I have used this method, as soon as I heard the roaring in the chimney, and it worked like a dream - when the firebrigade arrived the fire was already out!!!

Can you do rendering by floodlight?[8-)]

Maybe Steve's post would have been received better if it had been constructive and told us how he would have done it - it wasn't.  By the way is there a prize for who has the most posts?  If I'd thought there was, I could have posted the individual words[:P]! I shall certainly be trawling through other threads for information that might help us with DIY, legal bits and pieces etc. and hopefully enjoy verbal spats, which are part and parcel of these kind of forums. By the way if you're wondering about the colour - 'Purple people are people people'!!!!

I only hope that ours will look half as good, when we've done it !![:-))]

Or, perhaps? I could certainly teach, a thing, or two about, correct punctuation.[:D]

I could certainly teach a thing or two about correct punctuation!![;-)]

Great information source!  Has answered all the queries we could have before we make the mistakes we would have done, being complete novices at this kind of thing.  [:D]

The light bulbs left in our house were all 100watts!!  Needless to say we've replaced them all with energy saving ones!  [:P]