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On Monday 12 October 2009 21:13:26 I wrote: Even allowing for the smiley, this isn't true. English makes perfect sense to me. Since then my ISP's been playing silly beggars and cocked up my mail delivery so that I received nothing at all. It's fixed now but anything sent to the list meanwhile I haven't seen. Sorry for this, but it really wasn't my fault this time. -- Rgds Peter
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Neil Walker wrote: Dale wrote: Living on disability sucks, So why do you? If the skin doesn't bother them, the income part does. You really don't have to be living like that if you don't want to. It's entirely your choice. Drop me an email at neil-at-neiljw.net if you want to change things. :) Be lucky, Neil http://www.neiljw.com It's a lot more complicated than that. Dale :-) :-)
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Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 11 Oktober 2009, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:40:31 Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 11 October 2009, KH wrote: KH schrieb: Peter Humphrey schrieb: The difficulty is in keeping up with the idiom. Personally, I prefer to rely on what I've known for the last 60 years or so and to hell with the trendies. Things like its = belonging to it; it's = it is. Hi, how old are you? How is the oldest person on the list? But this is OT, too. kh To correct myself (shame on me). Who is the oldest ... I'm 71 ... is that old enough? Oh dear. I used to call myself an old codger. At a mere sprightly 44, do I now have to downgrade myself to still wet behind the ears? I'm 42 so I got your back. lol wow, from your posts I had you sorted at '24 - max, probably 21' ... I'm a kid at heart. LOL Because of health issues, I feel about 70 or so. http://psoriasis.org I have most of the things that go with it. Going to the Dr is a battle. I have to sign a AMA to go home. They usually bring that after the Dr sees me and I am signing out. I'm like that little train, 'I think I can, I think I can.' Dale :-) :-)
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On Sunday 11 October 2009 20:21:29 Philip Webb wrote: 091011 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Paket = packet ; Paket = package Oh dear ! -- English calls such words 'false friends' ! My German-English dictionary (Langenscheidt) suggests E 'package' = G 'Pack', while E 'packet' = G 'kleines Pack' or 'Päckchen'. In English, a 'packet' calls to mind something in an envelope, eg a letter; 'package' brings a picture of something tied up with string, ie a parcel. In computer English, a 'package' is eg Gentoo's 'app-arch/bzip2-1.0.5-r1'; a 'packet' is a fragment of a file sent through the Internet, different packets possibly taking different routes to their destination, where they are reassembled into the complete file. More generally, I think of a packet as a unit of something - soap powder, data, correspondence - while a package is a bundle of things - programs, Christmas presents, packets of sweets. No doubt that doesn't accord with any dictionary, but it seems to work. -- Rgds Peter
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On Sunday 11 October 2009 21:40:31 Peter Ruskin wrote: I'm 71 ... is that old enough? Too much for me - I'm only 66. Working on it though. -- Rgds Peter
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On Monday 12 October 2009 10:09:52 Dale wrote: I'm a kid at heart. LOL Because of health issues, I feel about 70 or so. http://psoriasis.org I have most of the things that go with it. Going to the Dr is a battle. I have to sign a AMA to go home. They usually bring that after the Dr sees me and I am signing out. I'm like that little train, 'I think I can, I think I can.' Dale :-) :-) I feel your pain, Dale. My girlfriend has mild eczema and it drives her crazy. I can only imagine what dealing with psoriasis must be like. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 12 October 2009 10:09:52 Dale wrote: I'm a kid at heart. LOL Because of health issues, I feel about 70 or so. http://psoriasis.org I have most of the things that go with it. Going to the Dr is a battle. I have to sign a AMA to go home. They usually bring that after the Dr sees me and I am signing out. I'm like that little train, 'I think I can, I think I can.' Dale :-) :-) I feel your pain, Dale. My girlfriend has mild eczema and it drives her crazy. I can only imagine what dealing with psoriasis must be like. I am disabled from it. I had a in law relative once that didn't understand it and made some comments about me being disabled from it. I just raised my shirt a little. No one else in that family has said a negative thing about it since. I think the pecking order for skin is, eczema, dermatitis then psoriasis. I sometimes get the first two backwards tho. One affects the first layer of skin, the other affects the top two layers and psoriasis affects all three. I usually explain it this way, psoriasis comes from the inside not the outside. It has cost me a lot tho. Living on disability sucks, no kids since I don't want to pass this on to them, and lets not mention dating. If the skin doesn't bother them, the income part does. Dale :-) :-)
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On Monday 12 October 2009 12:13:19 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 12 October 2009 10:09:52 Dale wrote: I'm a kid at heart. LOL Because of health issues, I feel about 70 or so. http://psoriasis.org I have most of the things that go with it. Going to the Dr is a battle. I have to sign a AMA to go home. They usually bring that after the Dr sees me and I am signing out. I'm like that little train, 'I think I can, I think I can.' Dale :-) :-) I feel your pain, Dale. My girlfriend has mild eczema and it drives her crazy. I can only imagine what dealing with psoriasis must be like. I am disabled from it. I had a in law relative once that didn't understand it and made some comments about me being disabled from it. I just raised my shirt a little. No one else in that family has said a negative thing about it since. All disabled folks have funny stories to relate :-) I work at an ISP and there's 1 (yes, just one) disabled bay on our entire parking level. A disabled colleague uses it but there's a special kind of idiot in the building that things his SUV is shaped like a wheelchair (guess where he parks). What he didn't know is that my colleague works in Security. He's the firewall admin, the VPN admin, the packeteer admin and all sorts of other admins too. It real funny, every day Mr. Special parks in the disabled bay, his internet doesn't work. We're still waiting for the penny to drop. It's hasn't yet :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 12 October 2009 12:13:19 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 12 October 2009 10:09:52 Dale wrote: I'm a kid at heart. LOL Because of health issues, I feel about 70 or so. http://psoriasis.org I have most of the things that go with it. Going to the Dr is a battle. I have to sign a AMA to go home. They usually bring that after the Dr sees me and I am signing out. I'm like that little train, 'I think I can, I think I can.' Dale :-) :-) I feel your pain, Dale. My girlfriend has mild eczema and it drives her crazy. I can only imagine what dealing with psoriasis must be like. I am disabled from it. I had a in law relative once that didn't understand it and made some comments about me being disabled from it. I just raised my shirt a little. No one else in that family has said a negative thing about it since. All disabled folks have funny stories to relate :-) I work at an ISP and there's 1 (yes, just one) disabled bay on our entire parking level. A disabled colleague uses it but there's a special kind of idiot in the building that things his SUV is shaped like a wheelchair (guess where he parks). What he didn't know is that my colleague works in Security. He's the firewall admin, the VPN admin, the packeteer admin and all sorts of other admins too. It real funny, every day Mr. Special parks in the disabled bay, his internet doesn't work. We're still waiting for the penny to drop. It's hasn't yet :-) I don't have the little thing so that I can park in the disabled parking spot, yet anyway. I do think it is funny that the guy can make him pay for parking where he is not supposed to tho. Down here, they write tickets and you get to pay a good size fine for that. Dale :-) :-)
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On Monday 12 October 2009 18:01:49 Dale wrote: All disabled folks have funny stories to relate :-) I work at an ISP and there's 1 (yes, just one) disabled bay on our entire parking level. A disabled colleague uses it but there's a special kind of idiot in the building that things his SUV is shaped like a wheelchair (guess where he parks). What he didn't know is that my colleague works in Security. He's the firewall admin, the VPN admin, the packeteer admin and all sorts of other admins too. It real funny, every day Mr. Special parks in the disabled bay, his internet doesn't work. We're still waiting for the penny to drop. It's hasn't yet :-) I don't have the little thing so that I can park in the disabled parking spot, yet anyway. I do think it is funny that the guy can make him pay for parking where he is not supposed to tho. Down here, they write tickets and you get to pay a good size fine for that. Dale I live in the deep south of darkest Africa and we do things differently here :-) The cops can't be bothered with tickets so it's up to property owners to police the bays. A mate used to manage a supermarket, and had the usual big sign that non-disabled people parking in the bays would have their wheels clamped and would have to pay a donation to the disabled society to have them unclamped. One day an idiot refused to pay. So he tried to drive off anyway. In a brand new Mercedes. Caused about ZAR15,000 damage to his wheel arches rather than admit he was wrong and cough up ZAR200 :-) Darwin gets them all in the end :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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Alan McKinnon wrote: What he didn't know is that my colleague works in Security. He's the firewall admin, the VPN admin, the packeteer admin and all sorts of other admins too. It real funny, every day Mr. Special parks in the disabled bay, his internet doesn't work. BOFH![1] ;-) [1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/bofh/ Best regards Peter K
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Dale wrote: Living on disability sucks, So why do you? If the skin doesn't bother them, the income part does. You really don't have to be living like that if you don't want to. It's entirely your choice. Drop me an email at neil-at-neiljw.net if you want to change things. :) Be lucky, Neil http://www.neiljw.com
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On Monday 12 October 2009 21:03:48 pk wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: What he didn't know is that my colleague works in Security. He's the firewall admin, the VPN admin, the packeteer admin and all sorts of other admins too. It real funny, every day Mr. Special parks in the disabled bay, his internet doesn't work. BOFH![1] ;-) [1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/bofh/ Then you should come work where I work. You'll get to read the motds I put on the main access server :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:18:04 Alan McKinnon wrote: English is a mess. As a language it's worse than a pig's breakfast and makes almost no sense whatsoever to non-native speakers. Mind you, it makes about as much sense to native speakers as well :-) Even allowing for the smiley, this isn't true. English makes perfect sense to me. -- Rgds Peter
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On Monday 12 October 2009 22:13:26 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:18:04 Alan McKinnon wrote: English is a mess. As a language it's worse than a pig's breakfast and makes almost no sense whatsoever to non-native speakers. Mind you, it makes about as much sense to native speakers as well :-) Even allowing for the smiley, this isn't true. English makes perfect sense to me. Come live and work with me for a week. I'll show you the average English native speaker that lives outside of the British Isles. You can even listen to them. I dare say you are an exception to the norm, someone who in days gone by would have been called an educated man or perhaps a man of letters? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 11:58 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: sometimes upstream changes a packet without renaming it This got me thinking. I've been hearing the word packet used a lot lately to describe software. I always think is this a new thing or did they mean 'package'? I tried doing my own investigation. Googling software packet returns mostly software about network monitoring. Googling software package returns just what you'd expect. Yet I've heard a few people lately describe software as a packet. Did these people phonetically mis-hear package as packet? Is this something new? Sometimes I think to correct these people but perhaps I'm the one who needs correcting?
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On Sonntag 11 Oktober 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 11:58 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: sometimes upstream changes a packet without renaming it This got me thinking. I've been hearing the word packet used a lot lately to describe software. I always think is this a new thing or did they mean 'package'? I tried doing my own investigation. Googling software packet returns mostly software about network monitoring. Googling software package returns just what you'd expect. Yet I've heard a few people lately describe software as a packet. Did these people phonetically mis-hear package as packet? Is this something new? Sometimes I think to correct these people but perhaps I'm the one who needs correcting? Paket = packet Paket = package too lazy to remember which one is what.
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Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 11:58 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: sometimes upstream changes a packet without renaming it This got me thinking. I've been hearing the word packet used a lot lately to describe software. I always think is this a new thing or did they mean 'package'? I would say it is about just to many germans who are translating german words literally into english and as the the german word for package is Paket they come up with packet. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
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On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 13:18 +0200, Justin wrote: I would say it is about just to many germans who are translating german words literally into english and as the the german word for package is Paket they come up with packet. Oh wow I did not know that. See I knew it had to have some reasonable explanation. Thanks for the education. -a
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On Sunday 11 October 2009 13:22:48 Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 13:18 +0200, Justin wrote: I would say it is about just to many germans who are translating german words literally into english and as the the german word for package is Paket they come up with packet. Oh wow I did not know that. See I knew it had to have some reasonable explanation. Thanks for the education. Well, at least now we know that English contains at least one word that is less ambiguous than the German equivalent. I would not have thought it could be done. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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On Sunday 11 October 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 11 October 2009 13:22:48 Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 13:18 +0200, Justin wrote: I would say it is about just to many germans who are translating german words literally into english and as the the german word for package is Paket they come up with packet. Oh wow I did not know that. See I knew it had to have some reasonable explanation. Thanks for the education. Well, at least now we know that English contains at least one word that is less ambiguous than the German equivalent. I would not have thought it could be done. Packet in English is almost always correctly used to denote a format of network transmitted data (in the context of a conversation about IT and computers) which is routable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_(information_technology) The word packet also has other meanings like: a 'small amount of', a 'package of' and can be used in the context of money (one's salary or earnings), crisps, condoms, chewing-gums, etc. Therefore the word packet can be ambiguous in English too, if the context in which it is mentioned is not known. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
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On Sunday 11 October 2009 17:50:37 Mick wrote: On Sunday 11 October 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 11 October 2009 13:22:48 Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 13:18 +0200, Justin wrote: I would say it is about just to many germans who are translating german words literally into english and as the the german word for package is Paket they come up with packet. Oh wow I did not know that. See I knew it had to have some reasonable explanation. Thanks for the education. Well, at least now we know that English contains at least one word that is less ambiguous than the German equivalent. I would not have thought it could be done. Packet in English is almost always correctly used to denote a format of network transmitted data (in the context of a conversation about IT and computers) which is routable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_(information_technology) The word packet also has other meanings like: a 'small amount of', a 'package of' and can be used in the context of money (one's salary or earnings), crisps, condoms, chewing-gums, etc. Therefore the word packet can be ambiguous in English too, if the context in which it is mentioned is not known. Yes, I know all that. You missed the in-joke :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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On Sunday 11 October 2009 15:55:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: Well, at least now we know that English contains at least one word that is less ambiguous than the German equivalent. I would not have thought it could be done. English contains many ambiguities, but if you know the current idiom they all disappear, or at least recede. The difficulty is in keeping up with the idiom. Personally, I prefer to rely on what I've known for the last 60 years or so and to hell with the trendies. Things like its = belonging to it; it's = it is. -- Rgds Peter
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Justin schrieb: I would say it is about just to many germans who are translating german words literally into english and as the the german word for package is Paket they come up with packet. Hi, This is OT: I am sure I don't have the best English and I do a lot of faults. But in Germany *everybody* believes to speak English. Pleas correct things like packet / package. Bad translation can cause a lot of problems. (Also one can easily see if some news is only translated from English or if the network has a man down wherever.) Porsche for example told their employees not to use English for their work. Person A translated something from German into English and person B had to do it vis versa and half of the content was lost somewhere on the way. Anyway this will become very OT ... kh
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Peter Humphrey schrieb: The difficulty is in keeping up with the idiom. Personally, I prefer to rely on what I've known for the last 60 years or so and to hell with the trendies. Things like its = belonging to it; it's = it is. Hi, how old are you? How is the oldest person on the list? But this is OT, too. kh
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KH schrieb: Peter Humphrey schrieb: The difficulty is in keeping up with the idiom. Personally, I prefer to rely on what I've known for the last 60 years or so and to hell with the trendies. Things like its = belonging to it; it's = it is. Hi, how old are you? How is the oldest person on the list? But this is OT, too. kh To correct myself (shame on me). Who is the oldest ...
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Mick wrote: Packet in English is almost always correctly used to denote a format of network transmitted data (in the context of a conversation about IT and computers) which is routable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_(information_technology) The word packet also has other meanings like: a 'small amount of', a 'package of' and can be used in the context of money (one's salary or earnings), crisps, condoms, chewing-gums, etc. Therefore the word packet can be ambiguous in English too, if the context in which it is mentioned is not known. Errrm .. no ambiguity there. That is just an illustration of it's use: a packet of [data] [money (common use pay packet)] [data] [crisps] [condoms], [chewing gum] [etc..] Be lucky, Neil http://www.neilwalker.ws
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091011 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Paket = packet ; Paket = package Oh dear ! -- English calls such words 'false friends' ! My German-English dictionary (Langenscheidt) suggests E 'package' = G 'Pack', while E 'packet' = G 'kleines Pack' or 'Päckchen'. In English, a 'packet' calls to mind something in an envelope, eg a letter; 'package' brings a picture of something tied up with string, ie a parcel. In computer English, a 'package' is eg Gentoo's 'app-arch/bzip2-1.0.5-r1'; a 'packet' is a fragment of a file sent through the Internet, different packets possibly taking different routes to their destination, where they are reassembled into the complete file. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
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091011 Philip Webb wrote: E 'packet' = G 'kleines Pack' or 'Päckchen'. Sorry, typo : that sb 'kleines Paket' or 'kleine Pack'. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
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On Sunday 11 October 2009 19:02:07 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 11 October 2009 15:55:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: Well, at least now we know that English contains at least one word that is less ambiguous than the German equivalent. I would not have thought it could be done. English contains many ambiguities, but if you know the current idiom they all disappear, or at least recede. The difficulty is in keeping up with the idiom. Personally, I prefer to rely on what I've known for the last 60 years or so and to hell with the trendies. Things like its = belonging to it; it's = it is. English is a mess. As a language it's worse than a pig's breakfast and makes almost no sense whatsoever to non-native speakers. Mind you, it makes about as much sense to native speakers as well :-) I had to take 5 years of Latin study in high school to understand how my own mother tongue works. Sad indictment for a language wouldn't you say? I heard once that Perl is modelled after English. Pah! I reckon that's BS - Perl makes much too much sense for that. Brainfuck is the one modelled after English :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:40:31 Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 11 October 2009, KH wrote: KH schrieb: Peter Humphrey schrieb: The difficulty is in keeping up with the idiom. Personally, I prefer to rely on what I've known for the last 60 years or so and to hell with the trendies. Things like its = belonging to it; it's = it is. Hi, how old are you? How is the oldest person on the list? But this is OT, too. kh To correct myself (shame on me). Who is the oldest ... I'm 71 ... is that old enough? Oh dear. I used to call myself an old codger. At a mere sprightly 44, do I now have to downgrade myself to still wet behind the ears? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:40:31 Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 11 October 2009, KH wrote: KH schrieb: Peter Humphrey schrieb: The difficulty is in keeping up with the idiom. Personally, I prefer to rely on what I've known for the last 60 years or so and to hell with the trendies. Things like its = belonging to it; it's = it is. Hi, how old are you? How is the oldest person on the list? But this is OT, too. kh To correct myself (shame on me). Who is the oldest ... I'm 71 ... is that old enough? Oh dear. I used to call myself an old codger. At a mere sprightly 44, do I now have to downgrade myself to still wet behind the ears? I'm 42 so I got your back. lol Dale :-) :-)
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On Sunday 11 October 2009 23:25:02 Dale wrote: To correct myself (shame on me). Who is the oldest ... I'm 71 ... is that old enough? Oh dear. I used to call myself an old codger. At a mere sprightly 44, do I now have to downgrade myself to still wet behind the ears? I'm 42 so I got your back. lol Dale Hehe, you can join me in the lucky crowd - people who went to school when Pluto was still a planet :-) But I'm not giving up the nic I use everywhere except mailing lists: splog: snarky pedantic lazy old git My 12 year-old figured that out and reckoned it was ahuge joke, so he told his mum (my ex). She was decidedly not ... amused :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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Peter Ruskin schrieb: On Sunday 11 October 2009, KH wrote: KH schrieb: Peter Humphrey schrieb: The difficulty is in keeping up with the idiom. Personally, I prefer to rely on what I've known for the last 60 years or so and to hell with the trendies. Things like its = belonging to it; it's = it is. Hi, how old are you? How is the oldest person on the list? But this is OT, too. kh To correct myself (shame on me). Who is the oldest ... I'm 71 ... is that old enough? To use a trendy idiom: That's cool. That is a body of acquired knowledge.
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Alan McKinnon schrieb: On Sunday 11 October 2009 23:25:02 Dale wrote: To correct myself (shame on me). Who is the oldest ... I'm 71 ... is that old enough? Oh dear. I used to call myself an old codger. At a mere sprightly 44, do I now have to downgrade myself to still wet behind the ears? I'm 42 so I got your back. lol Dale Hehe, you can join me in the lucky crowd - people who went to school when Pluto was still a planet :-) rofl but same for me and I am only 28. But I'm not giving up the nic I use everywhere except mailing lists: splog: snarky pedantic lazy old git My 12 year-old figured that out and reckoned it was ahuge joke, so he told his mum (my ex). She was decidedly not ... amused :-) rofl Thanks for that mail. Maid me smile for minutes. kh
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On Sonntag 11 Oktober 2009, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:40:31 Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 11 October 2009, KH wrote: KH schrieb: Peter Humphrey schrieb: The difficulty is in keeping up with the idiom. Personally, I prefer to rely on what I've known for the last 60 years or so and to hell with the trendies. Things like its = belonging to it; it's = it is. Hi, how old are you? How is the oldest person on the list? But this is OT, too. kh To correct myself (shame on me). Who is the oldest ... I'm 71 ... is that old enough? Oh dear. I used to call myself an old codger. At a mere sprightly 44, do I now have to downgrade myself to still wet behind the ears? I'm 42 so I got your back. lol wow, from your posts I had you sorted at '24 - max, probably 21' ...
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On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 00:04 +0200, KH wrote: Peter Ruskin schrieb: I'm 71 ... is that old enough? To use a trendy idiom: That's cool. I believe the current trendy idiom (with the identical meaning) is That's hot. Thus portraying exactly the problem with our language. :x --K
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091011 Mike Edenfield wrote: On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 00:04 +0200, KH wrote: Peter Ruskin schrieb: I'm 71 ... is that old enough? To use a trendy idiom: That's cool. I believe the current trendy idiom (with the identical meaning) is That's hot. Thus portraying exactly the problem with our language. The word 'cool' dates from the 1960s -- yes, I'm old enough to remember -- , but since the invention of Global Warming, 'hot' has taken over ... -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
