Don Wilhelm wrote: > I can vouch for the same thing as Lyle. Several years ago, I was > married to a British citizen. Not only were her words for things > slightly different, but I discovered when talking with her family and > others while visiting England, those things they found humorous and > those things they found alarming or offensive was quite different than > from my perspective. I don't think I caused any social faux-pas with my > words, but then who knows. The British mind works just a little bit > differently than those of us in the US, and there are many subtleties in > how words are used. Many concepts are kept apart by a common language > :-) . They use the Oxford dictionary and have no use for Webster!
Yes Don, how true. Been in lots of other countries, got along OK in the language for the easy things, but humor, sarcasm, and idle chatter can be really hard. 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2010 Cal QSO Party 2-3 Oct 2010 - www.cqp.org ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
