Hi,
Justin B Rye <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
> appropriate, it would be called LDP! So I'd suggest:
>
> <item>the Linux FAQ, by <url name="Ian Jackson"
> id="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ijackson/";>,
ok.
[...]
> >> (Do people think of etch-a-sketches as blackboards? For a start,
> >> isn't it more of a whiteboard?)
> >
> > I personally have no preference here (german speaker).
> > What would you suggest?
>
> People trying to describe what an Etch-a-Sketch is usually seem to
> call it something like a "magic art pad". Maybe it doesn't matter as
> long as we've got the actual brandname in there, but I would suggest:
>
> <item><em>etch</em> was the toy whiteboard (Etch-a-Sketch),
ok.
[...]
> > <item><em>squeeze</em> was the name of the three-eyed alien
> > <item><em>squeeze</em> was the name of the three-eyed aliens
> >
> > I personally would use alien
>
> We only ever meet them in groups, but they're instances of the same
> toy, so if any of them are named Squeeze they all are (just as both
> the spaceman toys in TS2 are Buzz Lightyear). That's a weird enough
> situation to make it worth talking in terms of the (one) name of the
> (many) aliens:
>
> <item><em>squeeze</em> was the name of the three-eyed aliens,
ok.
Thanks
Holger
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