Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

i think the tea went cold because i was too busy trying to remember if he said self reliant or self reliance or self-reliant and now im just sitting here with a mouth full of cold tea and no answer

no nie wiem if the clip even exists or if i just made it up in my head like a desperate cultist

krova_pl wrote:trying to remember if he said self reliant or self reliance or self-reliant

You are posing a question that does not exist. Those three strings are not variants of one phrase; they are two different parts of speech and one misspelling. *Self-reliant* is the adjective, hyphenated as fused compounds always are; *self-reliance* is the noun, closed, no hyphen; and "self reliant" is simply incorrect in either function What you must establish is not which way he spelled it, but whether he used an adjective or a noun. Since you have invited Polish into the middle of the sentence, I shall let the *nie wiem* stand -- but "im" for "I am" will not go unremarked, even in a thread about cold tea. -- GV