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Gunnar wrote:
ludwigm wrote:My pet scifi writers are Isaac Asimov (and Stanislaw Lem). Even on my Kindle Reader I have all of their works *** - in Hungarian and English as well.
Asimov is one of my favorite SF writers too. I am less familiar with Stanislaw Lem, but thanks to you I have a growing appreciation of him as well.
Gunnar wrote: Another one of my favorites is Arthur C. Clarke.
As much as I loved Asimov's SF, I liked his science fact essays even better. He was a good friend of Clarke, who also wrote a lot of science fact essays and articles as well as science fiction. Are you familiar with the Clarke/Asimov pact? In that pact Asimov agreed that Arthur C. Clarke is the world's best science fiction writer and the world's second best science fact writer, and Clarke agreed that Isaac Asimov is the world's best science fact writer and the world's second best science fiction writer.
Yes. The common in Asimov and Clarke that both of them were scientists, too. Asimov in biochemistry, Clarke in radar tech (among others). Not Roddenberry or Hubbard types...
Pact? The shoeshine boy before the bank asks for five dollars from the hotdog seller (both of them are working before The Bank): - ? - No, sorry. I have a pact with The Bank. They don't sell hotdog, and I don't borrow money.
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- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
ludwigm wrote: No, sorry. I have a pact with The Bank. They don't sell hotdog, and I don't borrow money.
I think you meant to say "No, sorry. I have a pact with The Bank. They don't sell hotdogs, and I don't loan money." That would make more sense and be more grammatically correct in English.
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ludwigm wrote: No, sorry. I have a pact with The Bank. They don't sell hotdog, and I don't borrow money.
I think you meant to say "No, sorry. I have a pact with The Bank. They don't sell hotdogs, and I don't loan money." That would make more sense and be more grammatically correct in English.
OK, thank You. In the last nine years I've learned a lot of English.
Unfortunately, I am thinking in Hungarian, then translate my thought... That is, I authorize You and everybody to correct me.
#538 of 750 Hungarian proverbs "A jó pap holtig tanul." A good priest learns until his death. (My addition: and he dies as a moron...)
My error comes from my native language. The word "kölcsön" is borrowingANDloan in every dictionary. Sorry, my Martian language doesn't make a difference based on direction of money moving.
The word "kölcsönad" is loan. Literally giving the "kölcsön". The word "kölcsönvesz" is borrowing. Literally taking the "kölcsön".
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
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- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
