Comments on: Having the cake and eating it too - otherwise known as capra si varza http://shrinkmamma.com/2007/06/25/having-the-cake-and-eating-it-too-otherwise-known-as-capra-si-varza/ Making simple people feel complex since 2001 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:56:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 by: Margie http://shrinkmamma.com/2007/06/25/having-the-cake-and-eating-it-too-otherwise-known-as-capra-si-varza/#comment-7942 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:56:07 +0000 http://shrinkmamma.com/2007/06/25/having-the-cake-and-eating-it-too-otherwise-known-as-capra-si-varza/#comment-7942 Oops...better late than never, I hope. I've been out of town for a few days, but I am here and Happy To Comment if that's all it takes to keep one of my favorite writers posting! :) By the way, Cyrillic works for me...I can read that one! Thanks for keeping up with some English for all the rest of us. :) Oops…better late than never, I hope. I’ve been out of town for a few days, but I am here and Happy To Comment if that’s all it takes to keep one of my favorite writers posting! :)

By the way, Cyrillic works for me…I can read that one!

Thanks for keeping up with some English for all the rest of us. :)

]]> by: admin http://shrinkmamma.com/2007/06/25/having-the-cake-and-eating-it-too-otherwise-known-as-capra-si-varza/#comment-7918 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:58:26 +0000 http://shrinkmamma.com/2007/06/25/having-the-cake-and-eating-it-too-otherwise-known-as-capra-si-varza/#comment-7918 Lord: sorta. I had to, while traveling through Bulgaria. Most of the direction signs were using only that. The others - ok, let's keep it in English then, see what happens (meaning : I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU GUYS .. OR ELSE :d) Lord: sorta. I had to, while traveling through Bulgaria. Most of the direction signs were using only that.

The others - ok, let’s keep it in English then, see what happens (meaning : I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU GUYS .. OR ELSE :d)

]]> by: monsoux http://shrinkmamma.com/2007/06/25/having-the-cake-and-eating-it-too-otherwise-known-as-capra-si-varza/#comment-7914 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 07:28:06 +0000 http://shrinkmamma.com/2007/06/25/having-the-cake-and-eating-it-too-otherwise-known-as-capra-si-varza/#comment-7914 deal! I am actually waiting for posts in Hungarian so I can feel like those who don't get Romanian. :) Get it? (my way of saying good to have you back) deal! I am actually waiting for posts in Hungarian so I can feel like those who don’t get Romanian. :) Get it? (my way of saying good to have you back)

]]> by: Ashley http://shrinkmamma.com/2007/06/25/having-the-cake-and-eating-it-too-otherwise-known-as-capra-si-varza/#comment-7913 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:06:26 +0000 http://shrinkmamma.com/2007/06/25/having-the-cake-and-eating-it-too-otherwise-known-as-capra-si-varza/#comment-7913 I totally agree that you should keep it in English, for obviously selfish reasons. I can't understand Romanian, ergo I will be completely shut out when you switch. I have the same situation with my blog... I don't post as often any more but I still have really solid non-spam traffic, hundreds of regular non-spider readers a day. And yet only my mom and a few other people here and there leave comments. It's weird, and diappointing because I think the natural tendency is to hope that people will like what you write and then comment to tell you. I guess I'm guilty of skulking in the background of reading your site in this manner, myself! :) Anyway, please keep on in English! I totally agree that you should keep it in English, for obviously selfish reasons. I can’t understand Romanian, ergo I will be completely shut out when you switch.

I have the same situation with my blog… I don’t post as often any more but I still have really solid non-spam traffic, hundreds of regular non-spider readers a day. And yet only my mom and a few other people here and there leave comments. It’s weird, and diappointing because I think the natural tendency is to hope that people will like what you write and then comment to tell you.

I guess I’m guilty of skulking in the background of reading your site in this manner, myself! :)

Anyway, please keep on in English!

]]> by: Lord http://shrinkmamma.com/2007/06/25/having-the-cake-and-eating-it-too-otherwise-known-as-capra-si-varza/#comment-7910 Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:40:54 +0000 http://shrinkmamma.com/2007/06/25/having-the-cake-and-eating-it-too-otherwise-known-as-capra-si-varza/#comment-7910 yeah, you've been lazy :D ps. you know to read those cyrlics you're threatening with? :D yeah, you’ve been lazy :D

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you know to read those cyrlics you’re threatening with? :D

]]> by: Raluca http://shrinkmamma.com/2007/06/25/having-the-cake-and-eating-it-too-otherwise-known-as-capra-si-varza/#comment-7908 Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:35:54 +0000 http://shrinkmamma.com/2007/06/25/having-the-cake-and-eating-it-too-otherwise-known-as-capra-si-varza/#comment-7908 Welcome back! :) I would say to keep it in English. Your English is so colorful and enjoyable. You can make a point to your readers that they can comment in whatever language they feel comfortable with. You said you have readers -- so they can understand, even if their first language is not English. This way you don't alienate anybody. I have readers who comment in Romanian, and I don't mind - it actually makes it more interesting sometimes. Welcome back! :)
I would say to keep it in English. Your English is so colorful and enjoyable. You can make a point to your readers that they can comment in whatever language they feel comfortable with. You said you have readers — so they can understand, even if their first language is not English. This way you don’t alienate anybody. I have readers who comment in Romanian, and I don’t mind - it actually makes it more interesting sometimes.

]]> by: admin http://shrinkmamma.com/2007/06/25/having-the-cake-and-eating-it-too-otherwise-known-as-capra-si-varza/#comment-7905 Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:48:34 +0000 http://shrinkmamma.com/2007/06/25/having-the-cake-and-eating-it-too-otherwise-known-as-capra-si-varza/#comment-7905 Well, to tell the truth, one of the biggest reasons that made me ..erm.. not so keen on writing was the lack of comments. The blog had lots of traffic, people read it and came back for more, yet there were 3-4 comments at best per post. I need this blog to get more life into it, to see people disagree with me, tell me their opinion, interact with each other .. I want to KNOW my readers, dammit. Since most of the readers are Romanians, I saw switching to Romanian as a possible way to obtain that. I'm eager to hear any other solution you peeps might have for this. Well, to tell the truth, one of the biggest reasons that made me ..erm.. not so keen on writing was the lack of comments. The blog had lots of traffic, people read it and came back for more, yet there were 3-4 comments at best per post. I need this blog to get more life into it, to see people disagree with me, tell me their opinion, interact with each other .. I want to KNOW my readers, dammit. Since most of the readers are Romanians, I saw switching to Romanian as a possible way to obtain that. I’m eager to hear any other solution you peeps might have for this.

]]> by: Karioka http://shrinkmamma.com/2007/06/25/having-the-cake-and-eating-it-too-otherwise-known-as-capra-si-varza/#comment-7904 Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:49:44 +0000 http://shrinkmamma.com/2007/06/25/having-the-cake-and-eating-it-too-otherwise-known-as-capra-si-varza/#comment-7904 hey actually no, no deal. Look, there are people missing you as well, they have been waiting patiently for you to return, but they cant comprehend Romanian.It would make me quite sad if one of my favorite bloggers would suddenly decide to switch to Swedish, his mother tongue. However I would still read him, struggling with some online translator I guess :P hey actually no, no deal. Look, there are people missing you as well, they have been waiting patiently for you to return, but they cant comprehend Romanian.It would make me quite sad if one of my favorite bloggers would suddenly decide to switch to Swedish, his mother tongue.

However I would still read him, struggling with some online translator I guess :P

]]> by: Ashley http://shrinkmamma.com/2007/06/25/having-the-cake-and-eating-it-too-otherwise-known-as-capra-si-varza/#comment-7902 Wed, 27 Jun 2007 05:08:58 +0000 http://shrinkmamma.com/2007/06/25/having-the-cake-and-eating-it-too-otherwise-known-as-capra-si-varza/#comment-7902 I don't understand the impetus for suddenly intending on switching away from English...? Please explain? I don’t understand the impetus for suddenly intending on switching away from English…? Please explain?

]]> by: Karioka http://shrinkmamma.com/2007/06/25/having-the-cake-and-eating-it-too-otherwise-known-as-capra-si-varza/#comment-7895 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:09:21 +0000 http://shrinkmamma.com/2007/06/25/having-the-cake-and-eating-it-too-otherwise-known-as-capra-si-varza/#comment-7895 Deal! Deal!

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