<![CDATA[Let's get acquainted:)]]>Unless you're gonna hide something – except for that, here you/we're expected to tell each other a bit about ourselves.
Not much! Just a little;)

For example, what were you on MyOpera?
Say, my real username wasn't a "joshl". It was JoshL (the 'L' was added upon the registering because there was already such a username without 'L'). Also we could use nicknames, right?
Mine was just that "Josh" (like a name - as it was;).
I used to have a few photoalbums; also I tried some blogging -- initially, because later I primarily migrated to the Forums - particularly "Debates & Discussions" (sometimes "the Lounge", as an addition).
Guess what? I'm Russian, live in Russia, but my primary net language is English, British English. Ask me why!..:D

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/3162/let-s-get-acquaintedRSS for NodeMon, 20 Jul 2026 05:35:13 GMTTue, 03 Jun 2014 14:58:40 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Let's get acquainted:) on Thu, 26 Feb 2015 16:26:41 GMT]]>@s390g:
Hello there! What's your name?🙂
Do you have a Facebook account?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/68059https://forums.opera.com/post/68059Thu, 26 Feb 2015 16:26:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Let's get acquainted:) on Mon, 01 Dec 2014 21:23:55 GMT]]>Bravo.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/60001https://forums.opera.com/post/60001Mon, 01 Dec 2014 21:23:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Let's get acquainted:) on Mon, 01 Dec 2014 20:22:22 GMT]]>@joshl I am British. It is my first language. However, your English is incomprehensible to me in at least half your posts. Perhaps you are not as successful as you think you are?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/59995https://forums.opera.com/post/59995Mon, 01 Dec 2014 20:22:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Let's get acquainted:) on Sat, 29 Nov 2014 00:52:58 GMT]]>My last name is Laing, laingman is what my best friend in the USAF called me. I first got hooked on opera quite by mistake when I had opera mini on my old palm treo and saw something about opera desktop and decided to download it. At the time I was using a 3G connection card which was pretty slow by today's standards, so when I saw the pop up progress bar that let me see what it was doing, I was totally hooked and have never been interested in any other browser, including new opera.

By the way, beside opera my other passion is the now defunct palm webos, the greatest mobile operating system ever made. I still use a palm pre2 smartphone, so with that and old opera I now use two unsupported products as my daily drivers.

My native tongue is Jamaican patois and I find English to be quite dull. Used to live in NY, too cold, now living in Miami

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/59734https://forums.opera.com/post/59734Sat, 29 Nov 2014 00:52:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Let's get acquainted:) on Fri, 28 Nov 2014 15:01:29 GMT]]>Ruario, to better explain this langage nuisance, I've decided to add something here.

As a Russian native and a rather successful Englisg student and angloman, I basically speak two languages: Russian and (British) English.
I can understand American English, to some extent Aussie English, to a better extent Scottish English (to an extent Lowland Scots too), to a significantly lesser extent Pakistani English. But I do not speak nor going to understand either Inglish or english (including variations).
I'm not even gonna read those - the only exclusion to that is when a speaker/poster is not at all an English speaker and only sort of forced to interact in the language.
Sometimes I can consider offering some advice or assistance to such non-native speakers, but it may only happen if the circumstances allow.
@ruario

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/59700https://forums.opera.com/post/59700Fri, 28 Nov 2014 15:01:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Let's get acquainted:) on Fri, 19 Sep 2014 20:16:29 GMT]]>@linuxmint7:

Linux, what's your second name? Mint:P?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/51889https://forums.opera.com/post/51889Fri, 19 Sep 2014 20:16:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Let's get acquainted:) on Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:08:02 GMT]]>@tolispro:
Hello, pal. Welcome to the forums!
We have a lounge here, too, as you can see...
And I called you to mention that you can edit your posts here - during the first 30 minutes: click on the cog-wheel beneath your avatar - and you'll see the option 🆙

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/51872https://forums.opera.com/post/51872Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:08:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Let's get acquainted:) on Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:41:29 GMT]]>I've got 3 accounts, all in this forum, none in a bank and I drink only Tarkovskaya vodka.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/48977https://forums.opera.com/post/48977Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:41:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Let's get acquainted:) on Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:27:03 GMT]]>Yeah... didn't express that very well. 🙂

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/48962https://forums.opera.com/post/48962Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:27:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Let's get acquainted:) on Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:02:33 GMT]]>"Originally born" sounds interesting - implementing there's possible another birth, not so original;)

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/48835https://forums.opera.com/post/48835Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:02:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Let's get acquainted:) on Wed, 27 Aug 2014 01:37:10 GMT]]>Originally born in Canada but now live on the west coast of the USA.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/48809https://forums.opera.com/post/48809Wed, 27 Aug 2014 01:37:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Let's get acquainted:) on Fri, 15 Aug 2014 15:14:50 GMT]]>@leocg
Leo, where are you there?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/47940https://forums.opera.com/post/47940Fri, 15 Aug 2014 15:14:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Let's get acquainted:) on Wed, 23 Jul 2014 10:30:53 GMT]]>Blackbird, where are you from?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/45839https://forums.opera.com/post/45839Wed, 23 Jul 2014 10:30:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Let's get acquainted:) on Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:10:15 GMT]]>Let's see: leushino is obviously not my name but rather a place in Russia. I'm Orthodox and years ago I read a book about the monastery in Leushino and it captured my imagination. My father, by the way, was born in Russia "before" the revolution (another long story) but the family fled to Canada where I was born. Today I live in the US and our son is a distinguished software engineer with Microsoft Corporation. He is one of the leaders in the Xbox division and doing extremely well. We're very proud. I've used Opera for years (along with Netscape back in the day). That's about it for me. 🙂 BTW... lem729 I want to commend you for your hard (and patient) work with those asking questions and presenting problems. I'm sure the Opera team appreciate your efforts.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/43722https://forums.opera.com/post/43722Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:10:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Let's get acquainted:) on Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:51:07 GMT]]>@joshi

I like to read a lot of French, but especially thrillers, police novels, sometimes better books.

Yes, words, for sure, linuxmint7 🙂

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/42749https://forums.opera.com/post/42749Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:51:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Let's get acquainted:) on Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:39:33 GMT]]>He should go to Jersey and apply his knowledge;)

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/42747https://forums.opera.com/post/42747Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:39:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Let's get acquainted:) on Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:24:20 GMT]]>

What do you read in French?:)

Words ?. 😃

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/42744https://forums.opera.com/post/42744Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:24:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Let's get acquainted:) on Thu, 19 Jun 2014 14:49:14 GMT]]>What do you read in French?:)

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/42742https://forums.opera.com/post/42742Thu, 19 Jun 2014 14:49:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Let's get acquainted:) on Thu, 19 Jun 2014 13:53:19 GMT]]>Yes, I'm having my coffee right now. Hmmmm, it's good/wonderful. I agree about foreign languages. My second language is French, and it's great fun for me to read in it.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/42737https://forums.opera.com/post/42737Thu, 19 Jun 2014 13:53:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Let's get acquainted:) on Thu, 19 Jun 2014 04:24:03 GMT]]>
  • Because I'm crazy. I've loved English since my preschool years. Any foreign language to know is anyway a very useful thing, right? It opens you to more world than without it. (Another reason is a sorta escape from the unpleasant surrounding, to pretend belonging to a wider world..)
  • I drink tea and coffee.
  • I prefer racing games
  • Enough idiots to read about a fictional one.
  • Morning!
    • ]]>    https://forums.opera.com/post/42703https://forums.opera.com/post/42703Thu, 19 Jun 2014 04:24:03 GMT    <![CDATA[Reply to Let's get acquainted:) on Wed, 18 Jun 2014 23:51:37 GMT]]>Ok, Joshi, why is your primary net language English? And do you drink vodka? Can you play chess? (isn't that a Russian strength?) And do you read Dostoevski? Hmmmm, it's so much easier to ask questions than answer them. 😉

    ]]>    https://forums.opera.com/post/42662https://forums.opera.com/post/42662Wed, 18 Jun 2014 23:51:37 GMT    <![CDATA[Reply to Let's get acquainted:) on Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:10:04 GMT]]>MyOpera Refugees.

    ]]>    https://forums.opera.com/post/42423https://forums.opera.com/post/42423Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:10:04 GMT    <![CDATA[Reply to Let's get acquainted:) on Tue, 17 Jun 2014 02:28:32 GMT]]>

    Are you on Facebook? There's a group there - "MyOpera Refugees" -- you're welcome!

    I didn't find anything.

    ]]>    https://forums.opera.com/post/42413https://forums.opera.com/post/42413Tue, 17 Jun 2014 02:28:32 GMT    <![CDATA[Reply to Let's get acquainted:) on Wed, 04 Jun 2014 09:22:27 GMT]]>Are you on Facebook? There's a group there - "MyOpera Refugees" -- you're welcome!

    ]]>    https://forums.opera.com/post/41260https://forums.opera.com/post/41260Wed, 04 Jun 2014 09:22:27 GMT