Leave it to Schwern to start a war with Ireland. It's bad enough with the situation
between the British & the Irish.....
On another note about language differences:
American: "Hi, I'm Randy" means hello, my name is Randy.
British: "Hi, I'm randy" means hi, I am horny.
Brent
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 05:06:37PM +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 05:58:35PM +0200, Abigail wrote:
> > Which of course leads to the (British) saying (about USians):
> >
> > "We have everything in common, except, of course, the language."
>
> As an epiloge for today's edition... I nearly got my face punched in
> today. A word of warning. Subtle differences in slang is one thing.
> Subtle differences in insults is another!
>
> Sitting at lunch here in Belfast, having a conversation about
> Starbucks' slash-and-burn march across the face of the urban coffee
> culture, one of the guys commented that despite all that, he really
> liked their muffins. So I called him a tool, as in "tool of the
> establishment". At this moment my life was in danger and the rest of
> the table had something of an overreaction in my opinion.
>
> Turns out, to call someone a tool over here is roughly akin to saying
> "You're a dick" only mix in some grevious insults about their mother
> and maybe illicit comments about their little sister while you're at
> it. That gets an idea of the viciousness of the insult.
>
>
> Anyhow, this may have been the cause of the War of 1812.
>
>
> --
>
> Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
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> Cheating is often more efficient.
> - Seven of Nine
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