[color:"orange"](how do you call it in English? Condishional[/color]
Probation, is the word you were probably looking for <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Back to cultural differences:
A friend of mine, German and married to an American, who studied Anglistic and Psychology, once told me of the following experiment:
Imagine we are driving in a car in a normal street, you drive, and I tell you "park behind the car there on the right side of the street" (This is for non-English traffic traditions! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />) - Where would you park? {try to imagine the scenary! Would it make a difference if it were not a car, but a dump bin standing there?}
The point is - the result of the test was that the majority of the Europeans parked behind the car (rear "trunk" side); the majority of the Americans parked behind the car (front "engine" side) - and the question arose as to why?
It seems that if an object has a defined front and back, like a car or a house, Europeans tend to make the additional analytical step irrespective of their current position in relation to the object, whereas the Americans see it, irrespective of the object's inherent direction, only in relation of their perspective towards the object.
I found that interesting - and a cultural difference <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
