On 02/17/13 04:54, Jason McIntyre wrote:
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 01:29:00PM +0400, Nick Permyakov wrote:
Hi,
I might be nitpicking, but the sentence This will take awhile... at
the bottom of http://www.openbsd.org/stable.html doesn't seem very
grammatical to me. I'd suggest fixing it to
On 02/18/13 19:48, Nick Holland wrote:
On 02/17/13 04:54, Jason McIntyre wrote:
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 01:29:00PM +0400, Nick Permyakov wrote:
Hi,
I might be nitpicking, but the sentence This will take awhile... at
the bottom of http://www.openbsd.org/stable.html doesn't seem very
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 20:53, Alexander Hall wrote:
On 02/18/13 19:48, Nick Holland wrote:
a while/awhile means a short time? wow. I've always used it as
meaning a long time. 'course, I usually say it with a sarcastic tone,
so maybe it's the sarcasm that gets the point across.
Not that
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Alexander Hall alexan...@beard.se wrote:
On 02/18/13 19:48, Nick Holland wrote:
On 02/17/13 04:54, Jason McIntyre wrote:
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 01:29:00PM +0400, Nick Permyakov wrote:
Hi,
I might be nitpicking, but the sentence This will take awhile...
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:24 PM, sven falempin sven.falem...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Alexander Hall alexan...@beard.se wrote:
On 02/18/13 19:48, Nick Holland wrote:
On 02/17/13 04:54, Jason McIntyre wrote:
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 01:29:00PM +0400, Nick Permyakov
On 02/18/13 21:43, patrick keshishian wrote:
[5] http://www.learnersdictionary.com/search/awhile
awhile /əˈwajəl/ adverb
: for a while : for a short time
▪ I'm going to sit and rest awhile. ▪ The rumor had been around awhile.
While definition and practice may very well differ and change over
i asked native english speaker,
apparently, taking awhile is always 'sarcastic', and never short.
Not according to dictionaries[1][2][4]. I've never thought awhile as
a sarcastic usage.
Well I've never seen awhile written without a space so you can take
this with a pinch of salt but
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 09:25:06PM +, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
i asked native english speaker,
apparently, taking awhile is always 'sarcastic', and never short.
Not according to dictionaries[1][2][4]. I've never thought awhile as
a sarcastic usage.
Well I've never seen awhile
On 18/02/13 21:31, Marc Espie wrote:
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 09:25:06PM +, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
i asked native english speaker,
apparently, taking awhile is always 'sarcastic', and never short.
Not according to dictionaries[1][2][4]. I've never thought awhile as
a sarcastic usage.
Well
Marc Espie [es...@nerim.net] wrote:
This seems like a disturbing trend to me.
are we going to turn www into a dumbed-down international english slang ? ...
Yeah, we need some more translations of www. What should we call the
mix of hillbilly, valley girl, inner-city slang, and various
On 02/18/13 19:51, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
Marc Espie [es...@nerim.net] wrote:
This seems like a disturbing trend to me.
are we going to turn www into a dumbed-down international english slang ? ...
Yeah, we need some more translations of www. What should we call the
mix of hillbilly,
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