131mirafiori forum

I need to express my feelings here.
While and because not all of us are native English-speakers, we should try to communicate in plain English with correct punctation, spelling and rather avoiding slang. It is tiring to read the posts tHaT HaVe CaPiTAlss ,,,,:@!E$ and MiZtaaks that could be avoided. Please don't spoil the forum just because you are lazy or don't like the Queen.
It's not much fun for us foreigners to sum up our ignorance with somebody's else moods.

Alternatively, we can use our national languages, it could be fun to try to understand each other (except perhaps? Hungarian? ;D, for example "Lengyel, magyar, k?t j? bar?t, egy?tt harcol, s issza bor?t." ) 8) 8) 8) 8)

Agree with your comments Bolger.

This is truly a global forum with the language challenges that this brings.

I'll try to be conscious of this although I cant guarantee that I will always remember - Sometimes we can better express ourselves using slang or colloquialisms. ;)

I think nobody minds the occasional slang, which could be educative and/or fun, I just feel that we could try to keep our forum at least as elegant as ours 131s - don't we converse with them in slang sometimes ? ;)

Ja sie zgadzam. Piszmy w swoim wlasnym jezyku i zobaczymy jak sobie milosnicy krolowej poradza. Troszke wiecej tolerancji moi drodzy!

Pozdrawiam,

I absolutely agree with all written above.
by the way, best wishes from Serbia!
све најбоље из Србије!

I totally agree with bolger, for us who had only school English its a bit difficult sometimes to understand all who has been written if its not plain English!

Eller kanske vi alla ska skriva p? v?ra egna spr?k om v?ra 131:or...

131 lover

Zgadzam się z wsztystkimi !

One point though, slang is a part of our life  like or 131's  and trying to eliminate it artificially will NEVER work. Everyday English is full of(what at least some time ago were) slang expressions which have become part common English. Avoiding these on the forum is pointless. However using exotic expressions (not found in unabridged Webster) is not communicating but just burping ...       

Language discussion is always to the point.  I have a question: anybody knows what these are:  (delco, carter, cardan, halda, schpere). Not one or two but all ... Or is it that those that do not, may not need these parts at all? 

More problematic are acronyms, LSD,RWD,FWD,AWD,LHD.RHD are fairly easy , but how about: SR,PS,PB,PW ?

Anybody wants to try explaining ?

Bottom line, you do not need to be upper class (stiff upper lip) to like the Queen and be elegant in expressing yourself.  It is a matter of respects I for yourself and others.

 
Miro;

PS "Lengyel, magyar, k?t j? bar?t, egy?tt harcol, s issza bor?t."  = Polak Węgier dwa bratanki i do walki i do szklanki = Pole and Hungarian are two brothers, to fight and to drink. 

PS PS: I do not feel a "foreigner".(' :o' );
 It is an international forum and as such nobody is a foreigner ! After all we all are 131 lovers. Foreigner is someone who likes "Golfs 'or  BMW's  :o         

Pięknie Albercik, pięknie.

whoo hooo my brother on law is a foreginer, ha ha ha he cant get his head around the 131 thing?? but hes got a really nice 1986 scirocco & he is only 21

Fair dinkum, c'mon me ole china plates, try and keep the lingo at a level that my cobbers on here can get their noggin around!

I diny nah wot yoo lot are takin aboooot!

wl, if u thnk about it 4 a min, u'll c what i mean

A nie m?wiłem, trzeba było iść "na Wsch?d, tam na pewno jest cywilizacja ..."

Sid,

Your brother is no foreigner, he is an alien ... (LOL)

thats deadly ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha i hope to never own a volkswagen, read this Paul !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

miro-1980 - I happen to own (and love) a few BMWs, and I'm not a 'foreigner' ;D however I think I know what you mean......

Simon,

Well, I am not so sure about BMW's unless among the ones you own are 3000 CS, 508, 1600 touring or or at least 2000 Tii , but since you also proved your loyality to 131 you are "one of us" and "not one of them"

But seriously, if the divisions between us run along the lines of what cars we own and like and not nationality, race, or language the issue of "foreigner" (or an alien) on this site is dead! 

Miro

PS: I previously owned a couple of vintage VW's (a buggy and a Westfalia) and currently own a Volvo and Mistsubishi ... so we are all in the same bucket.