Comments on: Staycation

By: emiliano

emiliano — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:12:21 +0000

Thanks Monique, I have been reading the web page and your explanations that is just the same, and I do not know that words before and it’s meaning at all. It is very, very interesting if we want to be responsible of our behaviour on this earth that have to be the house of other live creatures. And it is for sure that if we remain at home taking
some fresh air, reading an old book from the public library it would be much better to reduce our carbon footprints. I like the words, thanks again….I have to measure mine and try to reduce it.

By: Monique

Monique — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:03:59 +0000

Emiliano,

Your carbon footprint is the sum of all emissions of CO2 (carbon dioxide), which were induced by your activities in a given time frame.
Usually a carbon footprint is calculated for the time period of a year.

http://timeforchange.org/what-is-a-carbon-footprint-definition

The footprint analogy is used because it suggests something we leave behind for generations to come.
You can calculate your own Carbon Footprint by entering values into a special calculator.
These numbers include your electricity, gas, oil, and car usage over a year’s time.

http://scitechspec.wordpress.com/2007/07/06/what%E2%80%99s-a-carbon-footprint-how-do-i-find-out-mine/

Have a good day.

By: emiliano

emiliano — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:25:09 +0000

Congratulations Monique, more or less I think like you, but I have a question to ask you please, what is your carbon footprint….., sorry but I don´t understand.
Thank you.

By: Monique

Monique — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:44:06 +0000

Thanks to you for that interesting portmanteau word.
I do not suffer from vacation envy; I dread packing, traffic jams, …
Staycation is just the vacation I need: there is no place like home!
Furthermore, that helps reducing my carbon footprint.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:38:52 +0000

To Manuel
Live is correct, because it’s a verb
and Life is a noun

By: antonio

antonio — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:44:07 +0000

staycation watching the olympic games.

By: jesus

jesus — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:24:55 +0000

Here in Mexico city the life is hard too.

By: K.L

K.L — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:51:16 +0000

To Manuel :

I think “live” here works as a verb, and life is a noun. YOU live in somewhere v.s. YOUR life in somewhere. little difference.

By: emiliano

emiliano — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:55:57 +0000

I love English because this lenguage is always inventing new words, and this is fine just to explain people life’s consequences by a world situation: CRISIS
But as elcomandate said before, here in Spain didn´t exist that “crisis” at all till now, and even more Mr. Rodriguez told us that Spain was “in the champion leage” among the most powefull nations to go through economic affairs. “This is Hollywood” and every moment we, spaniards, are living a movie.
Despite crisis, Madrid is as empty as every august, and many people thinks that September will be another month to think about problems. We are not persons to think about this matter “crisis”¡¡¡¡¡¡ …..what crisis?. We trust our president, we trust our goverment…….we are happy, despite less than 30 per cent spaniards save any money to prevent economic problems in future. We don’t need to save anything……., this is a matter of other people that invent a new word as “Staycation” to explaing they are saving money for this year respect their hollidays.
Manuel, I think that live is a verb and you have to use it when you want to say that you are living in small town or in a great town. Life is a noun and it is used in a different context in the sentence, as for example: “When we were young life was very easy to live without problems to think about”.

By: Gulls

Gulls — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:15:24 +0000

Vacation or staycation, I live my own life.