On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On 10/04/2014 00:53, Roy Smith wrote: >> Natural language is a wonderfully expressive thing. I open the window, >> stick my head out, look up at the sky, and say, "Raining". Forget the >> pronoun, I don't even have a verb. And yet everybody understands >> exactly what I mean. >> > > In the UK you can stay in bed and say "Raining" and the odds are you'll be > correct :)
Is the staying-in-bed part critical to that? The last few times I've been to England, it's only rained a few times. Granted, I've always come during your summer, but even so, the rumours suggest that rain should still be plenty common. We've happily driven a costume rack down the A53 (twice - once empty, once loaded, if I recall correctly), without worrying about rain. There were a few times when the terrain was treacherous (imagine this: you're at the top of a moderately-steep (probably 1 in 10-20) of rough concrete or asphalt, depending on which part you jog down, and it's been greased up by vehicles standing there, and then rained on; and you need to run down it at full speed, catch the porta-cabin before it closes for the last time this year, get the DVDs that were being run off for you, and run back up at full speed, all before a ceremony begins), but other than that, it's been pretty dry every time we've been there. But we don't stay in bed much. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
