[silk] Chicago Now - 60 embarrassing ways to butcher the english language

2010-07-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Engrish as she is spooken .. a lot of it stateside, besides the old desi favorite child bear Don't miss the Eric Schmidt business card where he's the Chariman of google And the mathematically inclined guy who wrote a check to Verizon (though that shouldn't have come into this list at all)

Re: [silk] Chicago Now - 60 embarrassing ways to butcher the english language

2010-07-07 Thread Anil Kumar
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.netwrote: Engrish as she is spooken .. a lot of it stateside, besides the old desi favorite child bear ..and you had to quote 'beer' wrong. -Anil KUMAR Don't miss the Eric Schmidt business card where he's the

Re: [silk] Chicago Now - 60 embarrassing ways to butcher the english language

2010-07-07 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.netwrote: And the mathematically inclined guy who wrote a check to Verizon (though that shouldn't have come into this list at all) Isn't Randall Munroe the xkcd guy? C -- http://www.uk.linkedin.com/in/chandrachoodan

Re: [silk] Chicago Now - 60 embarrassing ways to butcher the english language

2010-07-07 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote: And the mathematically inclined guy who wrote a check to Verizon (though that shouldn't have come into this list at all) Isn't Randall Munroe the xkcd guy? Yes. http://xkcd.com/verizon/ Udhay

Re: [silk] Chicago Now - 60 embarrassing ways to butcher the english language

2010-07-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Udhay Shankar N [07/07/10 14:55 +0530]: Isn't Randall Munroe the xkcd guy? Yes. http://xkcd.com/verizon/ Looking forward to a new xkcd about how that article thinks he's illiterate :)

[silk] Rhotic...I learnt a new word today

2010-07-07 Thread Deepa Mohan
http://www.nicholasjohnpatrick.com/post/767354896/did-americans-in-1776-have-british-accents Cheers, Deepa.

Re: [silk] Chicago Now - 60 embarrassing ways to butcher the english language

2010-07-07 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: Udhay Shankar N [07/07/10 14:55 +0530]: Isn't Randall Munroe the xkcd guy? Yes. http://xkcd.com/verizon/ Looking forward to a new xkcd about how that article thinks he's illiterate :) On a related note, I

Re: [silk] Chicago Now - 60 embarrassing ways to butcher the english language

2010-07-07 Thread Thaths
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Vinayak Hegde vinay...@gmail.com wrote: On a related note, I have the xkcd book. I can get it next time there is a silk meet in Bangalore. There's an interesting story of how it got to me. It is full of clues to a secret puzzle (see the answers at