"Ah mean jings krivens help ma boab. Ah ken Richmond is an eastcoaster ken (not you Ken, ken means "know") but thons gan far."
Hmm . . . 1. I believe that only the Broons and Oor Wullie (Comic-book characters) ever said "Ah mean jings krivens help ma boab". Mind you, D.C. Thompson is a cousin of mine. (and - you spell Crivens with a 'C') 2. I was born in Elgin, my father's people come from Carnoustie and Arbroath. Most of the really big victorian buildings in Dundee were built by my Great-Grandfather Robert Mathewson and his brother Alexander. 3. Supposedly the best 'English' in the world is spoken in Inverness! But last time I was there (about 4 year ago) I heard nothing but Broad Scots and a bit of what we East coasters call 'Erse' (Gaelic). Needless to say with 300 hundred years of English linguistic and cultural supremacy Scots has been downgraded to a 'filthy dialect spoken by unwashed fish-smokers'. However, from a diachronic point of view Scots retains something like 95% of the original Anglo-Saxon vocabulary, peppered with some Norse. English, on the other had is only 40% Anglo-Saxon with about 50% Norman French and all that fancy Latin imported by old Bugger-Lugs Samuel Johnson. 4. When 'Dr' Samuel Johnson was taken into the Scots Parliament by Boswell he was introduced to Lord Kames who stood and examined Johnson for a few minutes and then proffered a shilling to Boswell with the remark "I believe that is the usual sum at the zoo for viewing the beasts". I calmed down by hacking the revMenuBar stack (which seems to serve no real purpose by being in view) so that when it opens it moves (in Mac) to just up behind the menuBar (512, -16) - which means the accursed thing is no longer visible. I also opened up the menu editor and added cmd-6, cmd-8 and cmd-7 to the revMenuBar menu under Objects so that I can call Card Script, Object Properties and Card Properties respectively from my Belkin Nostromo. What is not clear to me is whether one can edit menus so that they will respond with any of those Function buttons at the top of the keyboard, or with multiple key-downs such as cmd-alt-something. I am trying to go as mouseless as possible as have been through 4 courses of anti-inflamatories over the last 8 years and have been told that the next lot will probably have to be steroidal - not my idea of fun at all. I due course I shall make available my Nostromo RR set and a list of all the key-commands I have used in my edited revMenuBar. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson __________________________________________________ See Mathewson's software at: http://members.maclaunch.com/richmond/default.html _______________________________________ --------------------------------------------------------------- The Think Different Store http://www.thinkdifferentstore.com/ For All Your Mac Gear --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
