So I'm trying hard to become a good tourist rep for these three months. It has already taught me a lot: real work, working class conditions and politeness. I even smile more.
I represent three British brands and do Brits only. If you want to study different cultures, just get one plus a Croatian - and watch for three days. I did pick an obscene, juicy local joke about a paedophile - just can't find anyone to tell it to.
I have a pretty good story about the town and tourists like me though I make them say local words or explain "locals are warm and open, though some have hardened due to daily onslaught of tourism."
It's inevitably also a study of human nature. So I did some math, and in about 120 people you will have your 3 loonies. But absolute ones. So you accept you yourself botch some things up, but the former simply cannot be helped.
Then Harry did Hvar. God, if as an interpreter I wished to do a high political summit, this would be your ultimate tourist rep thing. I'd make an extra effort to muddle his royal head.
srijeda, 31. kolovoza 2011.
Julian Rachlin
Well, we have this new festival. That about sums it up - it's new. New broom sweeps well, yes, but these days just about anyone is complaining about new things.
What bothers me with Rachlin is he is inventing hot water, as the vernacular has it. After all we have had the Dubrovnik Summer Festival for some 50-odd years now, so the whole situation resembles the one when marketing "experts" teach philosophy PhDs. Professors do actually learn something but the irony is the other guy never will.
Rachlin does have a somewhat obnoxious feel though he plays well and does serious classical music. I also welcome just about any new event in the town, especially off-season. But tonite was for kids - it's just that adults mostly attended.
The British Queen would say something like: "Well, it's quite postmodern." I say much the same thing in a single word - disgusting.
They dressed the local, poor help as pirates and, acting poorly, performed mediocre musical sketches. Like literally answering the phone hidden in the piano or playing Chopin and Oči černe at the same time. But then something appalling happens - a thundering applause.
I have this music show at the local student radio though I can't actually read music and have often wondered during the past six months whether those people that have neither breath nor sophistication can recognise good music or idea if they mostly perform poorly? It's strange, judging from the world of ideas I would say yes, but from music - they seem to go back.
I'm sure Julian has his side of the issue. He does sell well, y' know. But I'd rather he taught a few not to clap in-between movements.
I guess it's all for the best. But the synchronicity would have it I also heard my young waiter friend say today he's mean to common folk. Bad, bad day.
What bothers me with Rachlin is he is inventing hot water, as the vernacular has it. After all we have had the Dubrovnik Summer Festival for some 50-odd years now, so the whole situation resembles the one when marketing "experts" teach philosophy PhDs. Professors do actually learn something but the irony is the other guy never will.
Rachlin does have a somewhat obnoxious feel though he plays well and does serious classical music. I also welcome just about any new event in the town, especially off-season. But tonite was for kids - it's just that adults mostly attended.
The British Queen would say something like: "Well, it's quite postmodern." I say much the same thing in a single word - disgusting.
They dressed the local, poor help as pirates and, acting poorly, performed mediocre musical sketches. Like literally answering the phone hidden in the piano or playing Chopin and Oči černe at the same time. But then something appalling happens - a thundering applause.
I have this music show at the local student radio though I can't actually read music and have often wondered during the past six months whether those people that have neither breath nor sophistication can recognise good music or idea if they mostly perform poorly? It's strange, judging from the world of ideas I would say yes, but from music - they seem to go back.
I'm sure Julian has his side of the issue. He does sell well, y' know. But I'd rather he taught a few not to clap in-between movements.
I guess it's all for the best. But the synchronicity would have it I also heard my young waiter friend say today he's mean to common folk. Bad, bad day.
srijeda, 17. kolovoza 2011.
What's the Word?
Well, there isn't one. The more interesting ideas you get from concepts your language does not cover - actually, in this case, both of my languages.
The first idea comes from the Greek word KAIROS. Kairos is "the art of choosing the opportune moment;" in a nutshell, what to do when, how much to do it etc. Something like the Biblical salt and the skill is to be found in a couple of percentage of the population. Hard to define and hard to master, it mostly goes undetected and unutilised in the ways of the world. It is also acutely lacking, to complete this perfect maze.
The second I found in Bosnia, borrowed from Turkish. SEVAP designates "an act that is dear to God." If we can't be intelligent, it would be good that we are meek, but alas we are not that either. You do sevap when you selflessly help. So if you see a kid's ball on the street, toss it back!
The first idea comes from the Greek word KAIROS. Kairos is "the art of choosing the opportune moment;" in a nutshell, what to do when, how much to do it etc. Something like the Biblical salt and the skill is to be found in a couple of percentage of the population. Hard to define and hard to master, it mostly goes undetected and unutilised in the ways of the world. It is also acutely lacking, to complete this perfect maze.
The second I found in Bosnia, borrowed from Turkish. SEVAP designates "an act that is dear to God." If we can't be intelligent, it would be good that we are meek, but alas we are not that either. You do sevap when you selflessly help. So if you see a kid's ball on the street, toss it back!
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