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Have you gotton a driving license?
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22 Jul 2008 Tue 12:11 am |
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Quoting yilgun-7: Congratulations, because it is not easy to drive.You should be cool-headed and careful always.And safety distances/spaces and traffic flows and traffic signs and road conditions are very important in the country.
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22 Jul 2008 Tue 12:11 am |
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Quoting Avalon: Quoting geniuda: 
Quoting Elisabeth: and yes, even in Turkey! |
What a brave woman you are!!! |
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Lets not omit Brazil... full of crazy drivers!!
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22 Jul 2008 Tue 12:17 am |
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Quoting geniuda: Quoting Avalon: Quoting geniuda:
Quoting Elisabeth: and yes, even in Turkey! |
What a brave woman you are!!! |
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Lets not omit Brazil... full of crazy drivers!! |
they have wonderful cars and almost no speed limit or alcohol limit...stopping before zebra crossing just like reading in your mind..after Spain coming back to my country is a challenge for the pedestrian..no respect...the best way to cross the road in Poland is to learn to fly 
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22 Jul 2008 Tue 01:21 am |
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Not to mention Egypt ! 
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22 Jul 2008 Tue 01:53 am |
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Quoting CANLI: You know yılgün,
The answer to this question would be like the confession in Christianity ´im sry i dont know its name´
When one go to the priest and confess his sins
İ have never heard a driver who says he/she is a lousy driver,specially men   |
+1
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22 Jul 2008 Tue 01:57 am |
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I´m back from the bar!! Glad to see everyone is back on topic!! 
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22 Jul 2008 Tue 02:12 am |
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Quoting lady in red: I´m back from the bar!! Glad to see everyone is back on topic!! |
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22 Jul 2008 Tue 09:58 am |
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I don´t understand why PT picked on LIR for pointing out his mistake - correction is a very important thing when you´re working on your language. After all the mistake was not in one of the posts but in the thread title. Also, I think I am guilty of using the word license instead of licence although I´m trying to keep British standards. Still, I feel forgiven as I am not a native
Anyway, about drivers - I asked a Turkish friend of mine what he´d found most difficult about driving in Poland. He replied that the hardest part was remembering that the STOP sign is an imperative not a suggestion
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22 Jul 2008 Tue 10:13 am |
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Quoting yilgun-7: What Kind of Driver Are You?
Cool-headed, careful and experienced? |
Back to the question!
I am all of those things and more.............
got a couple of tickets for speeding, get annoyed at dithering, blundering, incompetent idiots - like those who drive in the middle lane at 50mph so it forces me to undertake them (now illegal in the UK). People who are slow at leaving the green light (or amber in my case ) infuriate me!
But aside all of that most people feel safe with me........................ 35 years of accident free driving
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22 Jul 2008 Tue 10:36 am |
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You´re absolutely right, correction is very important when learning a language. However, the way it is done is also important and IMO a pm would have been more appropriate in this instance. It would have helped Yilgun in the future. The thread isn´t on the translation forum.
The licence/license issue doesn´t bother me, or any other US English use. I try not to use US English but I would never correct anyone else (apart from children in school of course LIR)for using it. I mentioned it only because I was surprised LIR hadn´t spotted it and picked Yilgun up on that too in other words I was having a ´dig´ at LIR).
DD you are entitled to your opinion and your view didn´t surprise me in the least.
And before LIR is driven back to the bar . . .
My driving is much better when I´m alone in the car. I talk too much when there´s someone else in the car and that affects my concentration. My navigation skills are 100% better when I am alone too. For some reason, when I have a passenger I defer to them for directions . . . very odd I know.
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22 Jul 2008 Tue 10:44 am |
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Quoting peacetrain: You´re absolutely right, correction is very important when learning a language. However, the way it is done is also important and IMO a pm would have been more appropriate in this instance. It would have helped Yilgun in the future. The thread isn´t on the translation forum.
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It´s nothing but the pot calling the kettle black. You could have informed LIR about how you interpreted her post via PM too instead of provoking a five-page pointless discussion...Don´t preach what you don´t follow yourself...
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