Happy Or Sad In The Dr?

[cobraboy]

I'm ilconvinced.

[cladyluzt2002]

This is my first time on. what do I put under the "recipient username". I want to send a message

[Mirador]

By the way, let's not misunderestimate NALs.

[Don Juan]

Obviously, alternately, anyone can be sad or happy anywhere in the world at any time. It all depends on circumstances. I e, a wedding or a funeral.

But if your question is whether one is generally satisfied or dissatisfied, living in DR, will mostly depend on one's general financial situation.

The reason why Dominicans risk all to navigate the Mona passage and Haitians sneak across to our side, is due to deprivation brought on by $$$ constrains. Not necesserally because they want to abandone their way of life.

The common denominator here is money or the lack of. Just about anyone who chooses DR as a place to reside permanently, will know that without bucks, he/she will be utterly miserable. But with enough dough, life can be dolce indeed in our flawed paradise.

[mountainfrog]

Originally Posted by Rocky

...What would be the purpose to add a new word like unsatisfied, when we already had a perfectly good word, dissatisfied?

I am not a native speaker of English, so I ought not really insist.
My understanding of the two words is that 'dissatisfied' refers to somebody, who, in the past, was not satisfied in his or her expectations.

'Unsatisfied' for me is a word that expresses that certain needs or expectations yet want to be fulfilled.

Well, of course, my understanding is irrelevant...

I feel that English is a very fast changing and flexible language, new words are coined almost daily.

So: Language lives, dinosaurs became extinct.

m'frog

[Lambada]

Originally Posted by A.Hidalgo

So the word unsatisfied exist after all.

I was trying to disambiguate.

[A.Hidalgo]

I'm afraid that for all this talk about dis and un we are going to get a 2 page post!!!!

[Chip00]

I'm fairly satisfied for the following reasons:

1. Dominican wife is happy
2. Bilingual school close by for my daughters
3. House with screens and water heater
4. Aguilas de Cibao games
5. Cold Presidente
6. Mom and Dad's night out finally!
7. $9 golf round
8. Plenty of cold presidente.
9. Plenty of pleasant people (as long as they aren't trying to sell me something).
10. Winter a thing of the past!

Chip

[miguel]

Contra NALs, you can't even get the "flu" without someone (or SOME people) noticing it and NOT let you forget it.

I wonder how many DR1 members are "Catedraticos"?.

Hey, there's a poll for you, haha!.

[vince1956]

Originally Posted by miguel

Contra NALs, you can't even get the "flu" without someone (or SOME people) noticing it and NOT let you forget it.

I wonder how many DR1 members are "Catedraticos"?.

Hey, there's a poll for you, haha!.

University professors?