Everything you've said there is why English is great, IMHO.
Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY -----Original Message----- From: "Michael B. Smith" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected]: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:28:38 To: [email protected]<[email protected]> Reply-to: [email protected] Subject: RE: OT: slang (was RE: [NTSysADM] Terastation drive recovery) I fall further off topic…sorry. You think English is easy?? 1) The bandage was wound around the wound. 2) The farm was used to produce produce. 3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse. 4) We must polish the Polish furniture.. 5) He could lead if he would get the lead out. 6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.. 7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present. 8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum. 9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes. 10) I did not object to the object. 11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid. 12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row. 13) They were too close to the door to close it. 14) The buck does funny things when the does are present. 15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line. 16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow. 17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail. 18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.. 19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests. 20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend? Let’s face it – English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France . Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.. And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. PS. – Why doesn't ‘Buick’ rhyme with ‘quick’ ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Stovall Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 12:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OT: slang (was RE: [NTSysADM] Terastation drive recovery) Whereas our G-rated version is "bee's knees". How we got that from "stands out like the bollocks on a dog" I'll never know. :) On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:04 PM, James Rankin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: One of my favourite phrases, meaning outstanding.... Which naturally comes from "dog's bollocks", which was derived from the phrase "stands out like the bollocks on a dog", and adapted into an alternative for "outstanding" On 18 June 2013 17:00, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Mutt’s nuts? Really? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:53 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Terastation drive recovery Yes, I've got it out and mounted in a PC. The UFS recovery tool Richard pointed me to seems like the mutt's nuts - even though it wasn't free, but it's ripping through the data recovery in no time at all Cheers, JR On 18 June 2013 16:50, Daniel Chenault <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: When I have a problem with an external drive I remove the drive from the housing (sometimes destroys the housing) and work with the drive directly on its native interface. These days that’s going to be SATA. From: Richard Stovall<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 10:00 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Terastation drive recovery http://www.ufsexplorer.com/inf_terastation.php perhaps? On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:43 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Anyone know a (free, ideally) utility that can read the filesystem on a TeraStation from under Windows? -- James Rankin Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk -- James Rankin Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk -- James Rankin Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk
