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RE: A Geek in Prison - A Life Series by Charlie Shrem (Preamble)

in #story8 years ago

Firstly I always say to people if you know another language please use that language to stand out from the English speaking crowd within the steemuniverse.

I think my biggest complaint is the vastly different types of cultures that can cause problems when people travel a bit. Some people are semi-professional travelers and over time I suspect they get very adept at knowing what to do, where not to wander and how to communicate and when further information should be referenced.

Speaking for myself I set my personal goals at a more realistic level such as I am usually subconsciously pleased when I manage to put my pants on in the correct way without always being consciously aware of it...

Somehow I suspect that is why I like steemland so much, I can author an incredibly inappropriate rant about why the Constitution should be alters to make ex-politicians mandatory army live firing range target holders; the next might be a different type of post.

Regardless I can hide out herein anonymously and the worst I risk is some trolls and a flame war, whereas to mess up in a foreign country. That creates a whole new set of unknown variables and problems to be encountered. . .

A friend of mine got appendicitis when in Italy; now such a situation should not become tragic but her situation was far more complicated simply by communication problems and cultural differences. Thankfully she had nothing more than a routine surgery and a minor horror story due to differing opinions and expectations.

My advice try and stick to the things your comfortable with, act conservatively and always suspect the worst while hoping for the best...

/ hugz ;)

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Aз mога да говоря български, но уменията ми не са толкова добри, но аз се опитвам да се подобри, когато мога.

i also am not fully familiar with the ways of writing it better, also because of no practice at doing so. almost every bulgarian I speak to IRL or online just reverts to english, because they have good english.

Because I have spent a year inside in this country, I was forced to learn a lot more and now that I am free, after 9 months back in the country, I can get by quite well when my counterparty does not know english well.

It is a great adventure and I do my best to pay attention and improve what I know, whenever the opportunity presents.

желая, че повече хора от българия идва тук. аз съм сигурен че с време повече българи ще идва.

I have little trouble writing half decent, broken bulgarian with a pen or pencil, but on a computer, it is harder. even in this very country, small as it is, there is a lot of disagreement between people about what is the correct way to latinise, there is about 4 different systems used online, and even on signs erected by the fucking government, are all kinds of grammatical and spelling errors. Depending on which canon of bulgarian language you talk about. It's pretty funny, really.

Here is the preamble, and story of the first minutes of my arrest:

https://steemit.com/story/@l0k1/life-in-prison-in-bulgaria-what-you-need-to-know-if-you-are-as-stupid-as-i-was-part-1

I will continue it in a second one. There is so much background information I got a bit lost. But I hope you enjoy :)

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