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RE: Word misunderstandings of computer neophyes
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Of course, once you're in London it's only around three hours on the train to get to Paris or Brusse......
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June 19, 2003 12:42
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Since it is clear that Homer Simpson is now a popular American, I suggest that there should be anoth......
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June 19, 2003 12:38
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In fact, Canada was surprisingly anti-American in some ways, especially over the question of trade w......
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June 19, 2003 07:17
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I suspect that this has more to do with anti-Americanism than with ignorance. Although I have never ......
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June 19, 2003 01:20
RE: Verbiage
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I agree. Verbiage has negative connotations akin to pomposity, flummery, and bombast. Why not avoid......
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June 17, 2003 12:40
RE: Word misunderstandings of computer neophyes
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I was really referring only to PCs and their applications, not to telecoms. It's seems to me that m......
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June 16, 2003 15:51
RE: Yiddish words
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Having just come back from Malta (a completely bilingual society) I would like to make another obser......
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June 15, 2003 01:56
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Isolationism is not necessarily all bad but it does have consequences that its adherents might not b......
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June 15, 2003 01:14
RE: Animal words
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Of course this doesn't work so well in the UK since Nash was talking about those animals that walk o......
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June 07, 2003 00:48
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I confess I haven't had the nerve to try it! However, that the US government continues to pursue it......
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June 06, 2003 09:59
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Don't forget that many of us have our pictures on the community site, should you wish to dispel some......
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June 06, 2003 09:48
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I have been to all the places cited and can assure you that Spain and Portugal are not carbon copies......
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June 05, 2003 01:56
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In Britain (where the emergency telephone number was invented) we used (and can still use) 999. This......
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June 05, 2003 00:53
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It is sad that a person with the standing and education of a laywer should make such an assinine rem......
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June 05, 2003 00:38
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I have learnt from the many conversations I have had both on and off this board that most Americans ......
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May 31, 2003 04:17
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There is an apocryphal tale of an Englishman who was directed to a "foreigners" gate at a port. He s......
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May 27, 2003 02:52
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I agree. We have some fairly large Jewish communities (including some very strict Orthodox ones) but......
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May 24, 2003 10:29
RE: A BBC delicacy!
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The office of the data protection registrar (or whatever its latest incarnation is called) still use......
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May 23, 2003 10:58
RE: Workaholics
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Toy library (unless it means a model of a library, of course) Richard English...
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May 23, 2003 10:54
RE: A BBC delicacy!
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The word agenda is the plural of agendum. To call agenda "agendae" is making a plural from a plural.......
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