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 hil
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 grun
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.
Wel
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
> > 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
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
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:24 PM, sven falempin wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Alexander Hall 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,
>
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Alexander Hall 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 awhil
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.
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
grammatic
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 fi
funny enough, i took a short break from the book i'm reading to check email
and read this message. returning to the book i read this sentence:
"We picked the twelfth and thirteenth of July, but for awhile the issue was
in some doubt."
:)
--patrick
On Sunday, February 17, 2013, Jason McIntyre wro
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 read "...take a while...".
>
> Best
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 read "...take a while...".
Best regards,
Nick Permyakov
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