Comments on: Post uit Duitsland

By: bert kommerij

bert kommerij — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:16:10 +0000

@ Ingo: The answers are online! (I skipped the lies, it’s all true.) (How’s the website?)

@ thank you, Gurdonark. Wonderfully said. And true!
(The Swiss, funny people, all those mountains.)

Checking The Missing Fact now.

By: gurdonark

gurdonark — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:59:56 +0000

@bert the great thing about writing in a foreign language, even one which one speaks very well, as you do English, is that any error in thought can magically transform into an error of mental translation.

For me, though, this rarely gets me on the rails in Switzerland when I forget the word is zug :)

By: gurdonark

gurdonark — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:58:03 +0000

@ingo

What fun would it be to have a roadmap of the hidden lies?

I believe that weblogs are the replacement for mystery novels.

A weblog is a detective story, waiting to be read.
The readers sift the words and ideas,
in search of

The Missing Fact

By: Ingo

Ingo — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:01:58 +0000

Hi Bert,
can you tell me where you hide those little lies afterwards or is it my part to find out?:)
Best – Ingo

By: bert kommerij

bert kommerij — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:44:26 +0000

Thanks, Gurdonark.
Thoughtfull and insightfull it will be… :)
I like the question on the private stuff.
(I like private stuff.)
Yes, the questions were in English, but that’s ok with me. Writing in English can be interesting. As if I can add a little lie here and there.
As if I’m an actor, talking a language wich is not mine.
I’m working on the answers right now.
If you like to join answering, go ahead.
Ingo would like that, I guess.

(Next tuesday I get the results of the Fundingorganisation for Media Me.
Can’t wait…)

By: gurdonark

gurdonark — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:14:56 +0000

These questions are more to the point than the usual “gee, can you be a serious journalist with a weblog” questions. Yet these would be fun to run as a poll in my livejournal. If bloggers can be typified, Bert, then your type is “thoughtful and insightful”.

Were the questions in English? Somehow that seems wrong to me, though it is very much to my untutored benefit, being almost without German and pretty much without Dutch. Perhaps there should be a cultural rule that Dutchmen and Deustsch men should be required to write in Flemish, or Letzeburghese.

I like these two questions:
“How does sharing things online regularly affect their lives?
And what kind of online personalities inhabitate the blogosphere – can they be typified in some way?”

Aren’t these the questions mediame.nl would ask of the blogosphere, if only it obliged to take questions directly?