the e-mail is 35 today! 35 years, who's thought about that? here some figures:

in 2003 30.000millons of e-mails were sent around the world

each "working person" gets about 21- 50 mails per day
one our per day we spend each day composing and reading our electronic mails, 15 minutes it takes us to delete and sort what we don't wont

orthographical we could do a lot better but don't care

90% have sent mails accidentely to people they don't know

so we have to ask ourselfs if that's where all the spam comes from...

(70% of all mail recieved by thoses "working persons" are spam) and than i ask myself: how old is spam?

(al figures according to 20minutos read in the metro today)

lesen in der metro,

nicht die eigene literatur,
vorzugsweise, die der mitfahrer,
die über-die-schulter-lese technik verwendend.

mischung aus stillem-für-sich-lesen
und fremdbestimmtem lesen,
mit dem vorteil, dass man nicht selbst umblättern,
oder themen wählen muss.

dabei kann man sehr gut über eine
fiktive urbane bestsellerliste sinnieren,
üben schneller in anderen sprachen zu lesen,
leseproben geniessen.

beliebteste lektüren in bcn:
der davinci code
alles von ken follet und isabel allende
umberto eco
klassiker wie der kleine prinz (das lesen vor allem ausländer, die die spanische sprache lernen wollen)
und zeitungen:
el pais, el periodico, metro und 20minutos

whell, nobody said it would be a bed of roses, but still. first my castilan is not convenient either but my catalan is a desaster. despide all hopes i got to know today that all my courses will be held in catalan and somehow i survived my first two days of catalan lessons.
soon i'll have to choose another title for this blog in order not to get furius simply by reading any word begining with cat....
so we now have one week of intensive catalan lessons which last 4! hours every day while at least during the last hour everybody is somerwhere close to sleep. i'm looking forward to my first spanish lessons to get a base for all this. lets see how this all works out. ...and if you have nice flat mates they can still cheer you up when comming home and almost beeing dead (killed by catalan-lessons)