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If you have ever received a call that a loved one is in the hospital you seem to fall into a trance. Focusing only on what you can do to help.Recently my father was checked into the hospital and although he is doing fine, I realized how terrifying it is just to have him there.
He allowed me to take this picture not quite understanding how powerful a picture can be, and I love him for that.
Any comments or suggestions you have are greatly appreciated, I am very new at all this.
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the shallow DOF works really well, and makes this photo very deep and emotional.
Good work.
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I am very new and have never taken a photography class, so I am unsure what DOF is? But thank you for you comment, that is exactly what I had intended.
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Check Understanding Depth of Field to see what DOF is.
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wow...gave me goose bumps..but i love it..such nice perspective!
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Thank you so much. I couldn't sleep that night, and then 
ps thank you for the :fav: that rocks!
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your welcome..it reminds me of my dad
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good to here I am not the only one with a dad like that. :smile:
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Hey first submission!!! The start of something great. I can feel it.
I really like this piece. I think the angle and compostion work well and the tones are spot on. The only thing I'd change is the border. I feel that it makes the piece look like a TV still and detracts from the true feeling of the shot. But hey, that's just my opinion. All in all, an excellent first piece. Look forward to the rest.
PS hope your Dad's ok.
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thank you so much for your comment. I appreciate it. I actually choose this border because it was small and I felt like it wouldn't take away from the picture. But I have recieved several comments on it so it did the exact opposite of what I had intended. oh well, it was an experiment.
PS dad is doing very well he was sent home this morning.
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All I can say is that I totally got goose bumps. I DO know this feeling. Love it. Hope Dad gets better soon. 
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Thank you so much. I wanted people to be able to just relate to this. Dad is doing great, he was released today.
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i like the way you made something beautiful with such a terrifying topic
i think the picture is great, i really think so but i can hardly explain why because i would say sillys
great..
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thank you so much for your comment. I am glad that you like it. But I am unsure how sillys translates. I think it must mean great in french, but when I looked it up in the dictionary there was no match. I am curious :smile:
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hey, ^^
i'm sorry, my American is pity: i wanted to say i prefer not explain why i think your deviation is great because i couldn't find the right words to express it and the words i could find would be stupid remarks compared with what you've submited.so i prefer to comment with "great" 
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That is quite alright. I don't care if your American is not perfect, knowing that someone appreciates my work is so wonderful!
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i quite like that kind of border you used. 'cos as you can see, all of photographers are tend to make border "precise marquee" and the rest allaround is black, or white - it seems professional then, like a poster at expozition... so i appriciate you made it this way, cos experiment gets new things into art (but only some of them will get into world-mode). and as a newbie i had a tendence to be different (i don't know like you... isn't it so?).
but back to the point - i like it, even better it should look, when this border will be used on a portrait photo - it miht look like an old tv... maybe i'm not right, keep me informed
see ya and greetinngs to your father, keep him informed to be strong...
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Thank you for you oppinion and comment. I was trying to be a little unique with this. I didn't want to feel like I copied anyones ideas. I also wanted a small boarder that would not distract from the picture, which is why I thought this to be fitting. However, I recieved several comments on the border it's self so it proved to be quite the opposite. As for my father he was released from the hospital today.
PS I find it interesting that you are from slovokia...my great grand parents were from Czechoslovakia.
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but czech and slovakia are now two diff. countries
well. then..., hello, nation brother...
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I knew that, but it is very very rare to every even meet someone from czech or slovakia in America. So I get all excited when I hear that someone is from there. I feel like it is a part of me I don't know.
Do people from slovakia get along with people from czech? How many languages do you speak?
You will have to excuse my ignorance, but I need a history lesson and have lots of question.
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that's ok, nation brother, i also don't know nothing about countries in usa, maybe some names of them and maybe where are they suitated...
we get along with czechs!, we're always like brothers, our languages are very similar (although every slovak mostly can speak czech, but czechs are having problems to speak slovak (but i think its due to complexity of language, and slovak lang. is one of mmost difficult on grammar))
so i can speak: sloavak (of course), czech (of course because i lived yet in not differented czechoslovakia), english (is my grammar good? and i feel i'm not using complex words, also maybe composition of words is different like in originally english), german (quite good), a little hungary (they're our coutnry neigbours), a little gypsy (there's plenty of them in our eastern-europe), and i think that's all. in finnish i can tell "mitta kuuluu" (it means "how are you"). and you? (talking of languages)
are you american? in which country do you live? are there any differences between country languages (i think so, if it is so large country)
see ya
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Your english grammar is quite good actually, a few mistakes but I still understand you well.
Actually usa is 1 very large country with mexico(another country) and canada (another country) on it's boarders. The rest of it is surrounded by oceans. We have states here, 50 of them. And I live in Nevada a desert, have you ever heard of Las Vegas? That is were I live.
Unfortunately, in america they do not teach us but 1 language throughout school, can you believe that! I choice to learn some spanish, but I know very little.I have no one to converse with.
But I would really love to learn my native tounge, czech or slovak, I am not sure which one it is now. How do you pronounce "mitta kuuluu" and ....Mitta kuuluu?
thanks for chatting...this is so interesting to me
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the main things about world are known to me (as usa, can & mexico are quite large...), i meant countries in usa in my prev. chat.
sure i know las vegas as it's aslo big and very known city for the rest of the world, esp. for that gambling business... i like film Leaving Las Vegas (although it's about something else...)...
your cities are very large, it's a bit strange to me - to live in one city and never visit some part of it (due to its large), i live in city Kosice (eastern Slovakia - get the atlas...), it has 600.000 habitants and i can say i know every part of the city
in what part of LA do you live? were you ever in nevada desert? is it real hot desert?
it's bad -that thing with your languages - you know, we're small countries here in europe so we're more migrating between them, and every country has its own lang. but english became the world lang. (u can see it on internet) so people in england and usa do not have to learn any other langs 
so let's take first slovak lesson>
hi = ahoj
how are you = ako sa mas? (with punctuation it's "ako sa mΓ‘Ε‘?")
- but the difficulty is to tell you how to pronounce it...
e.g. letter "a" is in english pronounced "ej", here is "a" just the same - "a"
so if you want to tell "ako", you just say "A" "K" "O" together (not "ekou")
the basic diffs are in putting and pronouncing letters in words (but you know it from spanish lang., don't you?)
see ya for now (and please correct my basic grammar mistakes 
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hi, how are ya? here i go! (better dont look dowwwn to amount of words or you'll go nuts!)
:::::Example: Each state has a different age that you are able to obtain a driver's license, but all in all 50 states you must be 21 to drink. You don't have states right, only cities in countries? Is the law the same in every city?:::::
- yea, i heard that you can drive your car in age of 16 (in some states only?), here it is from 18 (and also in most countries of europe i think), drink = 18, smoke =16 (or is it 18 now? i dont know), vote = 18, born = 0 and so on 
yes, we have only cities... and slovakia is divided into 8 regions (based on major cities), due to self-government (state divides money into this regions, cos every region knows best where to invest the money...), the laws are the same in the whole country as it is one political unit (state = kind of social association for people - like monarchy, federation, kingdom)
:::::Example: if you go to a grocery store or convience store in vegas they actually have a section with slot machines to play!:::::
- that's awful! i hate that people make money out of every thing - in tis case its tourism... what does it mean "convience"???
:::::I found that the usa is 191 times larger than slovakia!:::::
- ah, thats not so much, i expected more when i take a look at the map...
:::::However, it is not entirely true that we never see parts of our city, it is just you might have little need to go there. Example: we have many stores where I live so I need to travel far. ::::
- yes, you're right. truely, i cannot also say that i know every corner in our city as it is quite large (
:::I was astonished to find that we have about 70 people per sq mile in usa were in slovakia you have over 280 people per sq mile! :shoked:::::
- smaller country, bigger concentration (we have around 6.000.000 people, you e.g.100.000.000???)... (i don't want to write 6 millions in previous sentence, cos i heard that "million" means other number in us english, here 6 million means number 6.000.000 ! in your case it is billion i think...?
- also i like your style of writing emotion icons, you used 
:::::I actually live in LV...(LA stands for Los Angeles in California):::::
- shorthand LA is known here, LV we never use, maybe shorthand "Vegas"
:::::I live in Henderson which is a city on the outskirts of las vegas:::::
- is there an empty place between LV and Henderson cities or are they divided just by table by the road? Hi there in Henderson!
::::we actually live in the nevada desert. Las vegas, henderson, summerlin are all cities locatd in the desert. So just behind my apartment are desert, mountains, coyotes::::
- this could be intersesting! esp. the coyotes (aren't people afraid of them?). So, you want to tell me that now as you are reading this, the outlook from your window is straight to hills on desert (and i can hear also some coyotes singing?
:::::...but do to construction and massive growth the desert is slowly becoming less and less.:::::
- 
:::::...today we were in the 90's with the high at 104. It can get up to 115 or more during the summer (but our average in summer is about 105.) It is very dry with little humidity and very little trees. No forests.:::::
-
Here is another example of usa and europe difference. You're measuring temperature in Kelvins? and we in grads of Celsius (so i can't imagine how hot is 105!) i suppose it's around 35 grads of Celsius. Also u r using galons and we liters (1 liter is around 4 comma somthing liters), for measuring distance we use mettrics system and u r using inch system. now i'm sitting at work, i work in construction firm, they're making 3D models of cranes & planes, we're corporating with american firm and my colleagues are going nuts when they have to reckon the inches to milimeters, centimeters... there's 60 constructers here, they have mechanical drawings on paper and they are re-drawing them into some 3D programs and then it goes straight to manufacture. What i wanted to say with this, is that 60 peaople are doing the same job, but I'm employed here as a standalone graphic designer to present their products... so i have internet on my mac, sometimes not too much work and i can chat with ya 
- btw. r u using Mac or PC? And what are the trends there, to have PC or Mac? Here everybody has PCs (99,9%), just specialized graphic and video firms are buying Macs as they are designed especially for this purpose. I have Mac, but it's coincidence, 'cos my chief is american and this was his comp, but he buyed a newer one. But i like it a lot, to work with Mac, it's kinda different but not as much. It's more stable, design is more nice and more animated, but there's not so many programs designed to Mac. But I cannot install anything here as it is a firm comp. and I do not have administrator laws...
:::::how about your country? Slovokia is 33% mountains does it snow a lot on them? Do you ski or snowboard? It is hot? :::::
in north of slovakia there are mountains Tatras (divided into High and Low Tatras), they're quite high and large, we can profit on tourism out of them, but our management is a lazy bitch, we do not know how to make money out of it..., but on the other side it would not be good to get Tatras dirty from tourists and to have casinos and hot-dog stands on every corner...
So, back to snow... our climate here is changing throughout year - we have 4 seasons - spring, summer, autumn, winter (it could be nteresting for ya, isn't it?) avg. temperatures in this seasons: 15,27,15,0 grads of Celsius.
I am skiing sometime (did you ever ski? sorry if i'm asking for ya stupid things?), but it's quite an expensive sport (outfit, ski tows that brings you up to hill). snowboard - i didn't tried it yet... (but wanna to try
:::::I appreciate you conversing with me! :thankful::::::
- thankfullness is on my side 
:::::I have questions on how to pronounce the "a" in slovak is it like the "a" in apple in enlish?::::
- No, it's like "a" in word "father". a is just a. or like in word "mother", although here you're changing "o" to "a". Your lang is spacial on changing characters, it's the basic difficulty of your lang for us, also it's very hard to learn conjugation (as in school they told us that EN has 16 conjugations (understood me? :ew?
:::::And if the accent is over the "a" in ako sa mas is the a pronounced like "ej" as in the word same?:::::
- sorry?
- if i catched your meaning well, no. ako sa mas is pronounced ako sa mas... We aren't tend to effigy (change) the pronouncing of letters, only in some cases. E.g. letter "a" in EN can be told in more ways: in "father" is "a" pronounced as "a". in "cat" "a" becames "e", in "awful" "a" becames "o" or "ou", in "the same" "a" becomes "ej"... Did you ever realised this things?
:::::...you sometimes leave out the word "the", which I think is not in most other languages (I know it is not in spanish).....:::::
- "the" isn't in any other lang. just in english (as i know...)
- it looks kinda stupid for us, because its needless word, hasn't any meaning!. and can u explain me diff. between using "a" and "the"??? (teacher tried to explain it to us, but i'm not sure if i've understood it well...)
::::...the only other mistakes you make are the arrangement of sentences...:::::
- yea, but man could not fix it without conversation and taking lessons from mistakes
:::::I know this is long, but I am very interested! Thank you for being a friend:::::
- my answer: I know this is long, but I am very interested! Thank you for being a friend
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Everytime I try to reply it bunbs me off so you are only getting half of a reply.
so let me start off where I left off...
:::::I live in Henderson which is a city on the outskirts of las vegas:::::
"is there an empty place between LV and Henderson cities or are they divided just by table by the road? Hi there in Henderson!"
No it is definately not empty between the two cities. What they do is just determine a road that is the cut off for henderson and the beginning of Las vegas. (LV is our postal abreviation for las vegas.)
::::we actually live in the nevada desert. Las vegas, henderson, summerlin are all cities locatd in the desert. So just behind my apartment are desert, mountains, coyotes::::
- this could be intersesting! esp. the coyotes (aren't people afraid of them?). So, you want to tell me that now as you are reading this, the outlook from your window is straight to hills on desert (and i can hear also some coyotes singing? ) strange thought...!
This is true. If I look off my balcony I see Mountains. I am very close to them, some people might see desert, and others, other houses. But our desert is not like hills or even and desert. It is bushes that dry up and become tumbleweed, rocky and has snakes and some cactus. (not many things can servive in the desert.) But yes the other night I was out taking pic's and heard coyotes, and yes we don't like them. 
:::::...but do to construction and massive growth the desert is slowly becoming less and less.:::::
- (didn't you wanted to write "due" except of "do"??). how large is the desert? (can man walk through it by feet?)
No the desert is massive, but it is all over. We live in the middle of it so if you walk around you will eventually walk along or through the desert.
:::::...today we were in the 90's with the high at 104. It can get up to 115 or more during the summer (but our average in summer is about 105.) It is very dry with little humidity and very little trees. No forests.:::::
"sorry, but I absolutely cannot understand this sentence: "today we were in the 90's with the high at 104"... "
I was referring to the weather as 90 degrees F (
Here is another example of usa and europe difference. You're measuring temperature in Kelvins? and we in grads of Celsius (so i can't imagine how hot is 105!) i suppose it's around 35 grads of Celsius. Also u r using galons and we liters (1 liter is around 4 comma somthing liters), for measuring distance we use mettrics system and u r using inch system. now i'm sitting at work, i work in construction firm, they're making 3D models of cranes & planes, we're corporating with american firm and my colleagues are going nuts when they have to reckon the inches to milimeters, centimeters... there's 60 constructers here, they have mechanical drawings on paper and they are re-drawing them into some 3D programs and then it goes straight to manufacture. What i wanted to say with this, is that 60 peaople are doing the same job, but I'm employed here as a standalone graphic designer to present their products... so i have internet on my mac, sometimes not too much work and i can chat with ya . My colleagues do not have net, as they were tend to download lots of unnecessary thingies and funs, so management decided to un-connect them from net. But as i am gr. designer, web developer and pre-press designer, they cannot take me net as i usually need to learn much of new technologies and test my pages...
- btw. r u using Mac or PC? And what are the trends there, to have PC or Mac? Here everybody has PCs (99,9%), just specialized graphic and video firms are buying Macs as they are designed especially for this purpose. I have Mac, but it's coincidence, 'cos my chief is american and this was his comp, but he buyed a newer one. But i like it a lot, to work with Mac, it's kinda different but not as much. It's more stable, design is more nice and more animated, but there's not so many programs designed to Mac. But I cannot install anything here as it is a firm comp. and I do not have administrator laws...
:::::how about your country? Slovokia is 33% mountains does it snow a lot on them? Do you ski or snowboard? It is hot? :::::
in north of slovakia there are mountains Tatras (divided into High and Low Tatras), they're quite high and large, we can profit on tourism out of them, but our management is a lazy bitch, we do not know how to make money out of it..., but on the other side it would not be good to get Tatras dirty from tourists and to have casinos and hot-dog stands on every corner...
So, back to snow... our climate here is changing throughout year - we have 4 seasons - spring, summer, autumn, winter (it could be nteresting for ya, isn't it?) avg. temperatures in this seasons: 15,27,15,0 grads of Celsius.
I am skiing sometime (did you ever ski? sorry if i'm asking for ya stupid things?), but it's quite an expensive sport (outfit, ski tows that brings you up to hill). snowboard - i didn't tried it yet... (but wanna to try )
:::::I appreciate you conversing with me! :thankful::::::
- thankfullness is on my side (can you understand this sentance? cos i told it in slovak way and just translated words to en, here you can see example of different meaning of words in whole, meaningful sentece)
:::::I have questions on how to pronounce the "a" in slovak is it like the "a" in apple in enlish?::::
- No, it's like "a" in word "father". a is just a. or like in word "mother", although here you're changing "o" to "a". Your lang is spacial on changing characters, it's the basic difficulty of your lang for us, also it's very hard to learn conjugation (as in school they told us that EN has 16 conjugations (understood me? :ew?)
:::::And if the accent is over the "a" in ako sa mas is the a pronounced like "ej" as in the word same?:::::
- sorry?
- if i catched your meaning well, no. ako sa mas is pronounced ako sa mas... We aren't tend to effigy (change) the pronouncing of letters, only in some cases. E.g. letter "a" in EN can be told in more ways: in "father" is "a" pronounced as "a". in "cat" "a" becames "e", in "awful" "a" becames "o" or "ou", in "the same" "a" becomes "ej"... Did you ever realised this things?
:::::...you sometimes leave out the word "the", which I think is not in most other languages (I know it is not in spanish).....:::::
- "the" isn't in any other lang. just in english (as i know...)
- it looks kinda stupid for us, because its needless word, hasn't any meaning!. and can u explain me diff. between using "a" and "the"??? (teacher tried to explain it to us, but i'm not sure if i've understood it well...)
::::...the only other mistakes you make are the arrangement of sentences...:::::
- yea, but man could not fix it without conversation and taking lessons from mistakes
:::::I know this is long, but I am very interested! Thank you for being a friend:::::
- my answer: I know this is long, but I am very interested! Thank you for being a friend
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ok, we should stop this thing, or you'll go crazy - losting your time... maybe we should discuss somewhere else...
shortly - it's all interesting & i love your answers, sometime we'll have a tea in nevada desert by a sunset, talking about our differences, and coyotes will sing us a sunset song, but our fire will not allow them to come closer, so we'll be safe till redbreathtaking sunrise...
i'd really like to... just one time in my life and i can die...
one thing more - go shot photos of all that your beauty -cactuses, snakes
now i can see that you left here your e-mail!!!!!
so, here's mine! stef@host.sk
but our discussion was so long that i don't know whrere we finished
nevertheless... see ya by mail
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Sounds Great!
Before you die you we will have tea in vegas.
well check your email.
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okay this thing is driving me crazy... Please take my email address so we can finish keep chatting without me cluttering your deviantart.
victim007@juno.com
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In our last chat you wrote...
"state divides money into this regions, cos every region knows best where to invest the money..."
This is much like how our state government works. They are given money to use as they see fit. The only difference that I can see is that our states, (your regions) are able to have different laws, as they see fit. (only they must not conflict with the laws of the country) Your regions are not given able to make laws, is that correct?
:::::Example: if you go to a grocery store or convience store in vegas they actually have a section with slot machines to play!:::::
I had talked about this in our last chat, but I mispelled the word convenience. A convenience store is a smaller version of a grocery store. It is like the name says, it is supposed to be more convenient. (so sorry about the typo)
"yes, you're right. truely, i cannot also say that i know every corner in our city as it is quite large ( and you have to visit KoΕ‘ice sometime!)"
I would love to visit Kosice someday! I have always wanted to go there and learn to speak slovak.
"smaller country, bigger concentration (we have around 6.000.000 people, you e.g.100.000.000???)... (i don't want to write 6 millions in previous sentence, cos i heard that "million" means other number in us english, here 6 million means number 6.000.000 ! in your case it is billion i think...?"
Actually, that is how you write 6 million...6,000,000 in use but maybe because of the foreign exchange rate 6 million is like 6 billion?
"in prev. chat i used "kiss", and i had troubles from that as i wrote... for this time i had opened emoticon legend to be strict..."
That is what I do too!
:::::I actually live in LV...(LA stands for Los Angeles in California):::::
- shorthand LA is known here, LV we never use, maybe shorthand "Vegas"
Yup, LV is the abreviation for las vegas
:::::I live in Henderson which is a city on the outskirts of las vegas:::::
- is there an empty place between LV and Henderson cities or are they divided just by table by the road? Hi there in Henderson!
::::we actually live in the nevada desert. Las vegas, henderson, summerlin are all cities locatd in the desert. So just behind my apartment are desert, mountains, coyotes::::
- this could be intersesting! esp. the coyotes (aren't people afraid of them?). So, you want to tell me that now as you are reading this, the outlook from your window is straight to hills on desert (and i can hear also some coyotes singing? ) strange thought...!
:::::...but do to construction and massive growth the desert is slowly becoming less and less.:::::
- (didn't you wanted to write "due" except of "do"??). how large is the desert? (can man walk through it by feet?)
:::::...today we were in the 90's with the high at 104. It can get up to 115 or more during the summer (but our average in summer is about 105.) It is very dry with little humidity and very little trees. No forests.:::::
- , i like forests, green, cold, shade (at the end everybody ikes weather in which he lives), i hate too hot when man can just lay and sleep, cannot do anything and just reek & stew. sorry, but I absolutely cannot understand this sentence: "today we were in the 90's with the high at 104"... :ha?:
Here is another example of usa and europe difference. You're measuring temperature in Kelvins? and we in grads of Celsius (so i can't imagine how hot is 105!) i suppose it's around 35 grads of Celsius. Also u r using galons and we liters (1 liter is around 4 comma somthing liters), for measuring distance we use mettrics system and u r using inch system. now i'm sitting at work, i work in construction firm, they're making 3D models of cranes & planes, we're corporating with american firm and my colleagues are going nuts when they have to reckon the inches to milimeters, centimeters... there's 60 constructers here, they have mechanical drawings on paper and they are re-drawing them into some 3D programs and then it goes straight to manufacture. What i wanted to say with this, is that 60 peaople are doing the same job, but I'm employed here as a standalone graphic designer to present their products... so i have internet on my mac, sometimes not too much work and i can chat with ya . My colleagues do not have net, as they were tend to download lots of unnecessary thingies and funs, so management decided to un-connect them from net. But as i am gr. designer, web developer and pre-press designer, they cannot take me net as i usually need to learn much of new technologies and test my pages...
- btw. r u using Mac or PC? And what are the trends there, to have PC or Mac? Here everybody has PCs (99,9%), just specialized graphic and video firms are buying Macs as they are designed especially for this purpose. I have Mac, but it's coincidence, 'cos my chief is american and this was his comp, but he buyed a newer one. But i like it a lot, to work with Mac, it's kinda different but not as much. It's more stable, design is more nice and more animated, but there's not so many programs designed to Mac. But I cannot install anything here as it is a firm comp. and I do not have administrator laws...
:::::how about your country? Slovokia is 33% mountains does it snow a lot on them? Do you ski or snowboard? It is hot? :::::
in north of slovakia there are mountains Tatras (divided into High and Low Tatras), they're quite high and large, we can profit on tourism out of them, but our management is a lazy bitch, we do not know how to make money out of it..., but on the other side it would not be good to get Tatras dirty from tourists and to have casinos and hot-dog stands on every corner...
So, back to snow... our climate here is changing throughout year - we have 4 seasons - spring, summer, autumn, winter (it could be nteresting for ya, isn't it?) avg. temperatures in this seasons: 15,27,15,0 grads of Celsius.
I am skiing sometime (did you ever ski? sorry if i'm asking for ya stupid things?), but it's quite an expensive sport (outfit, ski tows that brings you up to hill). snowboard - i didn't tried it yet... (but wanna to try )
:::::I appreciate you conversing with me! :thankful::::::
- thankfullness is on my side (can you understand this sentance? cos i told it in slovak way and just translated words to en, here you can see example of different meaning of words in whole, meaningful sentece)
:::::I have questions on how to pronounce the "a" in slovak is it like the "a" in apple in enlish?::::
- No, it's like "a" in word "father". a is just a. or like in word "mother", although here you're changing "o" to "a". Your lang is spacial on changing characters, it's the basic difficulty of your lang for us, also it's very hard to learn conjugation (as in school they told us that EN has 16 conjugations (understood me? :ew?)
:::::And if the accent is over the "a" in ako sa mas is the a pronounced like "ej" as in the word same?:::::
- sorry?
- if i catched your meaning well, no. ako sa mas is pronounced ako sa mas... We aren't tend to effigy (change) the pronouncing of letters, only in some cases. E.g. letter "a" in EN can be told in more ways: in "father" is "a" pronounced as "a". in "cat" "a" becames "e", in "awful" "a" becames "o" or "ou", in "the same" "a" becomes "ej"... Did you ever realised this things?
:::::...you sometimes leave out the word "the", which I think is not in most other languages (I know it is not in spanish).....:::::
- "the" isn't in any other lang. just in english (as i know...)
- it looks kinda stupid for us, because its needless word, hasn't any meaning!. and can u explain me diff. between using "a" and "the"??? (teacher tried to explain it to us, but i'm not sure if i've understood it well...)
::::...the only other mistakes you make are the arrangement of sentences...:::::
- yea, but man could not fix it without conversation and taking lessons from mistakes
:::::I know this is long, but I am very interested! Thank you for being a friend:::::
- my answer: I know this is long, but I am very interested! Thank you for being a friend
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you had said
"due to self-government (state divides money into this regions, cos every region knows best where to invest the money...),"
this is also true for our city and state government, which is also why the different laws between different states. Our states govern themselves just like your regions. However I believe your laws do not differ from region to region as ours do, am I right?
In our previous chat we talked about slot machines in grocery stores and convience
":::::Example: if you go to a grocery store or convience store in vegas they actually have a section with slot machines to play!:::::
- that's awful! i hate that people make money out of every thing - in tis case its tourism... what does it mean "convience"???
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In your last message you asked me several things so I used quotation marks to recap what you had said and my response follows.
"the main things about world are known to me (as usa, can & mexico are quite large...), i meant countries in usa in my prev. chat."
What I had tried to explain was that the United States of America is 1 very large country, made up of 50 states.(aka united states) All the states follow one overall set of laws, and then anything else is left up to the states to decide. Example: Each state has a different age that you are able to obtain a driver's license, but all in all 50 states you must be 21 to drink. You don't have states right, only cities in countries? Is the law the same in every city?
"sure i know las vegas it's a big and very known city for the rest of the world, esp. for that gambling business... i like the film Leaving Las Vegas (although it's about something else...)..."
Vegas is very well-known for the gambling business, but what you might not know is that although most of our casino's are on the las vegas strip(a stretch of road with lots of lights, billboards, and casino's), casinos are everywhere in vegas. Example: if you go to a grocery store or convience store in vegas they actually have a section with slot machines to play!
"your cities are very large, it's a bit strange to me - to live in one city and never visit some part of it (due to how large it is), i live in city Kosice (eastern Slovakia - get the atlas...), it has 600.000 habitants and i can say i know every part of the city"
I read more about slovakia in the atlas (like you said) and know I can see why you think it is strange that we can live in part of a city and never visit another part. I found that the usa is 191 times larger than slovakia! So our cities must be much larger than yours. However, it is not entirely true that we never see parts of our city, it is just you might have little need to go there. Example: we have many stores where I live so I need to travel far.
I was astonished to find that we have about 70 people per sq mile in usa were in slovakia you have over 280 people per sq mile! :shoked:
"in what part of LA do you live? were you ever in nevada desert? is it real hot desert?"
I actually live in LV...(LA stands for Los Angeles in California, but i think you knew that.) I live in Henderson which is a city on the outskirts of las vegas. we actually live in the nevada desert. Las vegas, henderson, summerlin are all cities locatd in the desert. So just behind my apartment are desert, mountains, coyotes...but do to construction and massive growth the desert is slowly becoming less and less. It gets very hot here. For example: today we were in the 90's with the high at 104. It can get up to 115 or more during the summer (but our average in summer is about 105.) It is very dry with little humidity and very little trees. No forests.
how about your country? Slovokia is 33% mountains does it snow a lot on them? Do you ski or snowboard? It is hot?
I appreciate you conversing with me! :thankful:
I have questions on how to pronounce the "a" in slovak is it like the "a" in apple in enlish? And if the accent is over the "a" in ako sa mas is the a pronounced like "ej" as in the word same?
"hi = ahoj
how are you = ako sa mas? (with punctuation it's "ako sa mΓ‘Ε‘?")
- but the difficulty is to tell you how to pronounce it...
e.g. letter "a" is in english pronounced "ej", here is "a" just the same - "a"
so if you want to tell "ako", you just say "A" "K" "O" together (not "ekou")
I tried to correct your grammar in the qotes but I noticed you sometimes leave out the word "the", which I think is not in most other languages (I know it is not in spanish). the only other mistakes you make are the arrangement of sentences (you know putting a word before another when it should go after) But some of these could be typing mistakes too. :smile:
I know this is long, but I am very interested! Thank you for being a friend
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check this>>> [link]
(speaking of migration and world...)
and sorry for that kiss at the end of my prev. chat (i thought icon kiss will show something else (i don't like that icon))
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:smile: that is very interesting picture that you linked me to... thank you!
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Didn't like the kiss icon...
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Thank you so much for your kind words. I can always use them.
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your welcome, oh and sorry for being rude, I hope your father gets well soon!
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That is quite alright. He was released from the hospital today.
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