If at first you don’t succeed, try, try and fail again

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try and fail again | B92 Blog http://blog.b92.net/blog/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/ Nicholas Comrie sr http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss rss@b92.net rss@b92.net Blog A-JE! RSS generator v0.3 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:19:50 +0000 http://blog.b92.net/user_stuff/avatars/mali/55/3055.jpg Nicholas Comrie http://blog.b92.net/ 50 50 Re: Before or after?? http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#k96145 Yes, there is sexism in the UK of course, but not quite so blatant since the 80s. This comment was triggered by the unrelated photo posted on this thread - are you also going to respond to that person about being 'off topic'?
As for your word of advice - don't need it thanks. Also don't need your xenophobic comment about British people and black slaves. How do you know I'm not black? Lots of people are in modern Britain.
But you are free to write me off because of some flippant comments that I made and my nationality. Your chip, your shoulder.
Actually, I really love Serbia, but just as you would feel if you lived in the UK, there are things that aren't quite so great. This is called free expression.
]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#komentari Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:44:38 GMT kate22 http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/ Re: Before or after?? http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#k95545 Word of advice:
If you don't like it anything in Serbia, just LEAVE
Go back to merry old England where people say please and thank you
or men apparently don't have sexist attitudes
I wonder if your people said please and thank you to their black slaves ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#komentari Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:44:07 GMT salenacionale http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/ Before or after?? http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#k91894
I've been calling rakija 'clever juice' for a long time and I too find that it's a great linguistic aid. It also makes me very clever, but strangely noone else seems to agree with me on that.

Still having a problem on the saying please and thank you front - people in Serbia seem to find it very strange when you tell them that you always say thank you even at home with your family. Someone told me that it was like treating people like strangers.

Also have a problem with the puerile and sexist attitiude towards women from certain blokes who obviously don't have a real girlfriend or are still 15 (eg. poster on this thread). And the number of really beautiful women who slap on way too much make-up so they all look the same. Sisters - tone down the slap, bung on some jeans and just chill - true men don't want barbie dolls who pout. They want natural beauty, smiles and good conversation. But that's just my off topic point of view.

Generally I find the people of Serbia really nice and hospitable and great company. The British and Serbian senses of humour are very similar and I always have a really good laugh with my Serbian friends.

Has the long awaited moment arrived when you can buy skimmed milk in Belgrade? I must have missed that! About bloody time. I may move back now.
]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#komentari Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:59:37 GMT kate22 http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/ Plant a tree http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#k89850 Not much to look at for the first few years and then it suddenly seems to just all come together.. -after a year or two of expressing yourself like a three-year old.
The problem comes when you get treated like one too! ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#komentari Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:55:19 GMT Whyomar http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/ Re: Weird situation in Belgrade http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#k89387 Someone actually plays that?
Someone sang it aloud?
Why? ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#komentari Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:03:19 GMT Igor_Jaramaz http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/ Actually http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#k88833
Dipende da che cosa era la vostra scelta della bevanda. Alcuni inducono Serbo fluente, un certo Italiano fluente... quale avete scelto, all'estremità che vi concludete su Russo parlante (by Babel Fish). ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#komentari Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:37:54 GMT jinks http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/ Weird situation in Belgrade http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#k88758
We took one smaller group to the discotheque later. In one moment it was that famous Antonio Banderas' song playing. One of our Spanish guests sang the whole song, just to be friendly slapped on the shoulder by one unsuspecting Serb that was passing by in that moment: "Bravo, care, znaš sve reči." ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#komentari Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:26:21 GMT wk http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/ Re: Обрано млеко http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#k88674 http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#komentari Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:37:57 GMT Nicholas Comrie http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/ Re: Nicholas, http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#k88672 Although I never can find my way to a computer terminal or have the will to write by that stage. ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#komentari Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:36:40 GMT Nicholas Comrie http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/ Обрано млеко http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#k88656
Another useful tool is http://www.slavicnet.com. Despite it allowing you a quota of only 50 translations per day, it is quite excellent actually, for translator or common speaker alike.

Enough shameless commercial advertising for me... ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#komentari Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:01:59 GMT Igor_Jaramaz http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/ the quotation http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#k88644
Samuel Beckett ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#komentari Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:25:29 GMT Ivan Čikarić http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/ Nicholas, http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#k88430 http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#komentari Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:02:19 GMT dunjica http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/ thong http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#k88415 http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#komentari Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:44:51 GMT Ana WithAFamilyNameTooHardToPron http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/ Re: swearing http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#k88338

your mother thong

Your mother wears thong?:))

You brighten my day, ma favorite doctoress! Really and honestly:)))
]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#komentari Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:23:58 GMT nsarski http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/ swearing http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#k88331 kacco (i'm not sure that I have the spelling right), which her Italian husband finds shocking. ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#komentari Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:12:58 GMT Ana WithAFamilyNameTooHardToPron http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/ Try this one: http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#k88308 Haaahaaaaa, sorry, but this is funny:)
Anyway, what is the explanation for a room full of Serbians speaking Italian? I mean, I've never had that experience for the whole life I've lived in Belgrade. Italian?! What is this - a new trend or something?

P.S. But, I must admit, I only have the admiration for you guys trying to make sense out of incomprehensible (this is Chekhov, btw.) ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/#komentari Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:50:45 GMT nsarski http://blog.b92.net/text/1315/If%20at%20first%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20succeed%2C%20try%2C%20try%20and%20fail%20again/