Dear Crhis,Silly me...
Unfortunately we do not have any “illustrative” photos for this field at all…As you may understand, taking photos of courtrooms or prisons is a bit problematic in Uzbekistan :) We do understand your concern that etc.
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My friend Trevor and his train-spotting group were once arrested in Bulgaria while photographing engines. Turns out they are classed as military installations.
The greatest person who ever lived, Paul Erdos, and his chums got in trouble speaking in thick foreign accents about daunting and impenetrable technical questions (abstract mathematics, but who was to know) while wandering near a military installation in the US.
On another note: Do you think the chris was a type o? Or was it an eastern europeanisation of your name?
I was explaining what Ms meant to my romanian colleague yesterday and he couldn't pronounce it. I said thats no problem, most british people can't pronounce it because all the vowels have been taken out. Mr is of course an abbriviation of mister and so has plenty of vowels. I said I had no problem with the purpose of Ms, in fact I am for it, but I don't like the ugliness of the word. If only we had a better word I said. My other collegue (joking I hope) suggested spinster.
Anyway I mention that because the mispelling of chris reminded me of a lot of the polish sirnames that I come into contact with and how they often have few vowels and always seem to me to be impentitrable. My romanian collegue argeed with me about the ugliness of Ms, but he's romanian and thats a romance language and (I am assuming knowing nothing about language whatsoever) that romance calls for vowels (though sex is probably voweless or else only made of vowels depending perhaps on its urgency).
The problem is that it isn't just a lack of vowels its putting unusual (to the british eye of course) letters together without vowels, like q's and y's and k's. I don't know how you do it!
Anyway you're crusade to make eastern europe a right thinking feminist leaning place through imposing your culture (a much better one than western culture, it has more sense and more biscuits) on them may be aided by this observation. Perhaps they are in a position linguistically to embrace the Ms as our country has failed... that said I reckon most people here pronounce it wrong because they don't like the concept and are being scornful...
right...
um...
that turned out to be long and off topic...
ah well...
Strc prst sklz krk. - and this is a real Slovak sentence :)
AND it has little devil-horn accents!
Štrc pršt sklz krk
The Crhis was a typo. The thing I do get though from Slovaks is being called Hris: the ch letter in Slovak is pronounced phlegmically, maybe like the ch in Scots sounds (at least in my head). One mini-satisfying moment teaching these kids came when another teacher asked whether my name is said Khris, and one of the students turned around with teenage scorn and said (sadly not in English) No, you write it Khris but you say it Kris.
I use Ms routinely, when titles are necessary, but I try to avoid titles when possible. The UNDP corporate policy is to not put Dr for PhDs on business cards, but allow its use in certain cases for medical doctors. Because medical doctors are very special.
Slovakia at lesat is a long way from embracing Ms. Slovak grammar demands that female names end -ova, making women spend up to three times as long introducing themselves. Which on the basis of respecting national culture is fine and not to be opposed, I guess. But it's laughable to see books by Danielle Steelova, Ayn Randova or whoeverova, and unpleasant that people whose names don't follow such linguistic rules (e.g. Hungarians in Slovakia) routinely have their names Slovakised (even somtimes having their first names completely respelled in official documents!). It seems very petty minded.
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