Am Montag, 3. Oktober 2011 schrieb Stephen Powell:
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 06:45:34 -0400 (EDT), Ralf Mardorf wrote:
I was kidding :), since I'm a dino I know MS-DOS, on my Atari ST
80286 hardware emulater I used DR-DOS instead of the M$ thingy.
Sorry. Didn't notice the winkies.
I thought we
On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 08:43 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 05:56:57 -0400 (EDT), Ralf Mardorf wrote:
I'm not sure what M$ does mean ;), but I'm sure Winzigweich is the
same as M$ ;).
M$ means Microsoft. Microsoft is often abbreviated as MS, such as in
the term
On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 16:19 +0100, Lisi wrote:
On Sunday 02 October 2011 15:58:01 consul tores wrote:
i am from El Salvador of America, but we do not take America only
for us; maybe it is related to common sense! or maybe low knowledge of
Geography. it is the same with North America without
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 06:45:34 -0400 (EDT), Ralf Mardorf wrote:
I was kidding :), since I'm a dino I know MS-DOS, on my Atari ST 80286
hardware emulater I used DR-DOS instead of the M$ thingy.
Sorry. Didn't notice the winkies.
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On 2 October 2011 01:44, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
I just asked my granddaughter what meal she would mean by tea and she
said What meal? There isn't a meal called tea. So it hasn't yet changed
and is still used as I have described above.
Sorry - language fascinates me!
And me.
2011/10/1 Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com:
On Sunday 02 October 2011 01:09:16 Stephen Powell wrote:
In England,
tea means a full meal.
Sorry to contradict you, but this is inaccurate. I don't know how the numbers
pan out percentage-wise, since the use of tea in that sense is both regional
and
On Sunday 02 October 2011 09:34:47 Terence wrote:
Another interesting thing (at least to me) is the distinction between
dinner and supper. Does one dine or sup in the evening (I am
assuming that no one on the list would have dinner mid-day!). In my
experience it would seem that the usage
On 2 October 2011 10:24, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
For those for whom tea is the evening meal, supper is a hot drink (probably
made with milk) and a biscuit or sandwiches before going to bed.
This dialect also allows for dinner - a hot cooked meal in the middle of
the day.
For those
On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 01:30 -0400, Doug wrote:
Winzigweich? Come now!
Well, I suppose that;s no worse than M$.
I'm not sure what M$ does mean ;), but I'm sure Winzigweich is the
same as M$ ;).
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On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:51:14 -0400 (EDT), Weaver wea...@riseup.net wrote:
It's all rather simple really!
English is a language and 'American English' is a dialect.
Whether American English is a language or a dialect is not
the point. The point is that the same words sometimes mean
different
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 04:34:47 -0400 (EDT),
Terence terence.j...@gmail.com wrote:
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(I am assuming that no one on the list would have dinner mid-day!).
In the culture and society in which I grew up, dinner means the
main meal of the day, which is usually the evening meal (circa 6 PM).
The
On Saturday 01 October 2011 21:39:29 Weaver wrote:
On Sat, 1 Oct 2011 21:17:08 -0400 (EDT)
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote:
[snip]
P.S. Don't ask for a napkin at a restaurant in Australia.
You'll get very strange looks! Ask for a serviette.
To them, a napkin is, um, well,
Growing up it was always breakfast, dinner, lunch, supper with lunch
being a late afternoon snack before chores and supper after the milking
was done. The main meal of the day was dinner/noon time. Somehwere
along the line lunch and dinner got changed around, likely by some city
types who didn't
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 05:56:57 -0400 (EDT), Ralf Mardorf wrote:
I'm not sure what M$ does mean ;), but I'm sure Winzigweich is the
same as M$ ;).
M$ means Microsoft. Microsoft is often abbreviated as MS, such as in
the term MS-DOS. You can probably guess why the $ is sometimes
substituted for
On 2011-10-02, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote:
Dialects, from time to time, have a way of becoming possessed of
delusions of grandeur and, believing that there is an opportunity for
world domination, create initiatives such as making it the default for
Operating System
On Sun, 2 Oct 2011 09:09:28 -0400 (EDT)
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote:
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 08:47:56 -0400 (EDT), Richard Bown wrote:
On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 08:43 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
M$ means Microsoft. Microsoft is often abbreviated as MS, such as
in the term MS-DOS.
On Sun, 2 Oct 2011 13:02:37 + (UTC)
Curt cu...@free.fr wrote:
On 2011-10-02, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote:
Dialects, from time to time, have a way of becoming possessed of
delusions of grandeur and, believing that there is an opportunity
for world domination, create
2011/10/2 Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com:
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:51:14 -0400 (EDT), Weaver wea...@riseup.net wrote:
It's all rather simple really!
English is a language and 'American English' is a dialect.
Whether American English is a language or a dialect is not
the point. The point
On Sunday 02 October 2011 15:58:01 consul tores wrote:
i am from El Salvador of America, but we do not take America only
for us; maybe it is related to common sense! or maybe low knowledge of
Geography. it is the same with North America without Mexico.
I agree, consul tores and try to remember
2011/10/2 Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com:
On Sunday 02 October 2011 15:58:01 consul tores wrote:
i am from El Salvador of America, but we do not take America only
for us; maybe it is related to common sense! or maybe low knowledge of
Geography. it is the same with North America without Mexico.
I
On Sunday 02 October 2011 16:47:40 consul tores wrote:
i am American too.
Quite, I was acknowledging that! As I say, I once spent 6 weeks in America
(Chile, in fact) but have never been to North America, though I did once have
an ambition to go to Mexico. (I didn't get there.)
Lisi
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2011/10/2 Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com:
On Sunday 02 October 2011 16:47:40 consul tores wrote:
i am American too.
Quite, I was acknowledging that! As I say, I once spent 6 weeks in America
(Chile, in fact) but have never been to North America, though I did once have
an ambition to go to
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 10:58:01 -0400 (EDT), consul tores wrote:
United States of America. Does of tell you something?
i am from El Salvador of America, but we do not take America only
for us; maybe it is related to common sense! or maybe low knowledge of
Geography. it is the same with North
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:58:16 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 10:58:01 -0400 (EDT), consul tores wrote:
United States of America. Does of tell you something?
i am from El Salvador of America, but we do not take America only for
us; maybe it is related to common sense! or
On 10/02/2011 04:34 AM, Terence wrote:
On 2 October 2011 01:44, Lisilisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
I just asked my granddaughter what meal she would mean by tea and she
said What meal? There isn't a meal called tea. So it hasn't yet changed
and is still used as I have described above.
Sorry -
On 2 October 2011 20:02, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote:
When I was a child in the US, my mother, who was descended from the
folks who landed here in the 1700s, insisted on having Sunday
dinner at about 1PM. I never knew anyone else who did that, but
I never knew anyone else who was
On Sunday 02 October 2011 12:19:26 Lisi wrote:
On Sunday 02 October 2011 15:58:01 consul tores wrote:
i am from El Salvador of America, but we do not take America only
for us; maybe it is related to common sense! or maybe low knowledge of
Geography. it is the same with North America without
On 2 October 2011 08:47, consul tores consultor...@gmail.com wrote:
Canadians use native and USians indians i think; we say
indigenous; and in general American natives or ancestors.
Actually, no, we (Canadians) call them First Nations (or, at least,
that's the PC term). It does have a nice ring
On Sunday 02 October 2011 17:35:05 consul tores wrote:
yes, i understood it in that way, but i add it for the list.
Ah. Sorry! Wise of you I think.
Lisi
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On 2011-10-02, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:58:16 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 10:58:01 -0400 (EDT), consul tores wrote:
United States of America. Does of tell you something?
i am from El Salvador of America, but we do not take America only
2011/10/2 Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com:
On 2 October 2011 08:47, consul tores consultor...@gmail.com wrote:
Canadians use native and USians indians i think; we say
indigenous; and in general American natives or ancestors.
Actually, no, we (Canadians) call them First Nations (or, at
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 19:22:31 -0400 (EDT), Lisi wrote:
On Saturday 01 October 2011 23:23:10 Liam O'Toole wrote:
On 2011-10-01, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote:
Sorry, I was pissed.
In the British or the American sense? It's hard to tell.
I didn't know that the American sense
On Sunday 02 October 2011 01:09:16 Stephen Powell wrote:
In England,
tea means a full meal.
Sorry to contradict you, but this is inaccurate. I don't know how the numbers
pan out percentage-wise, since the use of tea in that sense is both regional
and class based. (Yes, that terrible British
On Sat, 1 Oct 2011 20:09:16 -0400 (EDT)
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote:
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 19:22:31 -0400 (EDT), Lisi wrote:
On Saturday 01 October 2011 23:23:10 Liam O'Toole wrote:
On 2011-10-01, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote:
Sorry, I was pissed.
In the
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:44:41 -0400 (EDT), Lisi wrote:
On Sunday 02 October 2011 01:09:16 Stephen Powell wrote:
In England, tea means a full meal.
Sorry to contradict you, but this is inaccurate.
...
Hmm. Maybe that's Australia I was thinking of and I got
the two countries mixed up.
On Sat, 1 Oct 2011 21:17:08 -0400 (EDT)
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote:
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:44:41 -0400 (EDT), Lisi wrote:
On Sunday 02 October 2011 01:09:16 Stephen Powell wrote:
In England, tea means a full meal.
Sorry to contradict you, but this is inaccurate.
...
On Sun, 2 Oct 2011 11:39:29 +1000
Weaver wea...@riseup.net wrote:
On Sat, 1 Oct 2011 21:17:08 -0400 (EDT)
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote:
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:44:41 -0400 (EDT), Lisi wrote:
On Sunday 02 October 2011 01:09:16 Stephen Powell wrote:
In England, tea means a
On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 01:44:41AM +0100, Lisi wrote:
On Sunday 02 October 2011 01:09:16 Stephen Powell wrote:
In England, tea means a full meal.
Sorry to contradict you, but this is inaccurate. I don't know how the
numbers pan out percentage-wise, since the use of tea in that sense is
On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 01:44 +0100, Lisi wrote:
On Sunday 02 October 2011 01:09:16 Stephen Powell wrote:
In England,
tea means a full meal.
Sorry to contradict you, but this is inaccurate. I don't know how the
numbers
pan out percentage-wise, since the use of tea in that sense is both
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