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Simon <usenet@no-dns-yet.org.uk> is thought to have
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> If you're doing Californian, I'll handle the Essex direlect (only the
> ones that differ from proper English).
>
> 'ard droive, innit
>
> Thank $DIETY I don't talk like that.
>
Oh, I just love the english direlects. I'd love to learn some Irish
(I mean the accent, although gaelic woud be fine too), or scottish, or
essex.

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Bartosz Oudekerk

Play Rogue, visit exotic locations, meet strange creatures
and kill them.
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Bartosz Oudekerk <bartosz@see_my_GnuPG-key.com> is thought to have
typed the following text on 2003-12-01:

> If nobody else will do so, I could have a shot at polish, but I'd
> prefer a native to do so, since I'm not familiar with the spelling, and
> might not know the correct term(the rest of familiy isn't geek, so it
> isn't usually a topic when we speak to eachother).
>
Well, I didn't see any native volunteers, so here goes nothing (keep in
mind I could be way wrong on the spelling) I'm writing down how it
sounds.

> Morgan Landry <me@privacy.net> is thought to have
> typed the following text on 2003-12-01:
>>
>> Writing yet another paper, and I need your help again. This is for
>> people who know another language besides English.
>>
>> The words are:
>>
>> 1) Internet
>
Internet

>> 2) server
>
server
>
>> 3) program
>
program
>
>> 4) technology
>
technologia
>
>> 5) monitor
>
monitor
>
>> 6) keyboard
>
klaviatura
>
>> 7) mouse
>
mis
>
>> 8) compact disc (CD)
>
CD
>
>> 9) digital video/versatile disc (DVD)
>
DVD
>
>> 10) hard drive
>
twardy disk

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Bartosz Oudekerk

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and kill them.
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Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com> is thought to
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> Bartosz Oudekerk wrote:

>>>> monitor
>>>
>>> we also use the word 'beeldscherm'. i couldn't say which of the two is more
>>> common, though. perhaps bartosz has an idea of that.
>>>
>> When I wrote that I was thinking of 'beeldscherm' also, but then
>> deceided that it's the equivalent of 'screen'. A subtle difference, but
>> still....
>
> what is the difference to you? for me, the two words are synonyms AFAIK.
>
A Monitor to me is the thing itsself, while the screen is the area that
displays.

For example to see a mouse[0] *on* my screen would seem pretty normal,
while a mouse *on* my monitor, would make me go out to buy traps.


[0] I know that should be mouse-pointer, but for the sake of the only
moderatly good example I could think of I left it like this.

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Bartosz Oudekerk

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Bartosz Oudekerk wrote:
>
> AthlonRob <junkmail@axpr.net> is thought to have typed the
> following text on 2003-12-01:
>
>> I thought it had been... so went googling. It turns out the 'modern'
>> computer was invented in Germany by a man named Konrad Zuse. He was one
>> smart dude, but the Nazis didn't think so...
>>
> At least we now know where Suse got their name from (probably).

Software- und SystemEntwicklung. not Konrad Zuse...

>> Their computer was the first 'all electric' one, if I read that right.
>> Zuse's computer was electro-mechanical...
>>
> Now we know for sure, that's exactly how Suse makes your PC feel.

as an old-time SuSE enthousiast i take offense at this... ;-)

--
Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com
since when is vi an editor? a discussion on vi belongs in
comp.tools.unusable or something... ;-)

Ron Matthews wrote:
> Morgan Landry <me@privacy.net> wrote:
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>>On 2003-12-01, Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>there is another possibility, namely that the word is
>>>translated (a so-called 'calque'). most "official" arabic words are just
>>>translations of their english counterpart. most dutch words are, too.
>
>
>>Interesting. I haven't thought about that. IANAL (I am not a
>>linguist), so I don't know that much about different types of speech.
>
>
> It seeoms you don't know about usenet either or you would
> understand that your use of pgp is not warranted in this post and,
> as such, violates accepted standards of netiquette.
>
> We ask that you use pgp only when you have a legitimate reason to
> do so.
>
> cordially, as always,
>
> rm


What's all the whining about?

Bartosz Oudekerk wrote:

> Oh, I just love the english direlects. I'd love to learn some Irish
> (I mean the accent, although gaelic woud be fine too), or scottish, or
> essex.
>
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> Bartosz Oudekerk

Learn Polish and you will speak scottish perfectly. It seems to be the
only "English" dialect which connects always the same sound to the same
letter.
I should know;^)

Stanislaw
Slack user from Ulladulla.

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Stan Flatto <compaid@shoalhaven.net.au> is thought to have
typed the following text on 2003-12-01:

> Bartosz Oudekerk wrote:
>
>> Oh, I just love the english direlects. I'd love to learn some Irish
>> (I mean the accent, although gaelic woud be fine too), or scottish, or
>> essex.
>>
> Learn Polish and you will speak scottish perfectly. It seems to be the
> only "English" dialect which connects always the same sound to the same
> letter.

I happen to speak polish, so could you please explain? Perhaps you
could also provide one or two examples to help me understand.

> I should know;^)
>
I knew about the polish, but thought you lived in australia.

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Bartosz Oudekerk

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Joost Kremers wrote :
>
> while i don't speak finnish, i very much doubt this. (i know for a fact that
> the finnish word for 'king' is adopted from some (old) germanic
> language. it's a very old loan, but it does indicate that finnish is not
> immune to loan words.)
>
It made a search on the web and it seems that I either has a bad memory
or has been misinformed.

But my search also shows that loan words in Finnish is mangled to meet
the grammar in a way that they are almost FUBAR.

I think ill ask O.V.Ronkainen next time I comes across him here at the
Usenet.
--
Thomas O.

This area is designed to become quite warm during normal operation.

Bartosz Oudekerk wrote:
[monitor vs screen/beeldscherm]
> A Monitor to me is the thing itsself, while the screen is the area that
> displays.

actually, that makes a lot of sense.

> For example to see a mouse[0] *on* my screen would seem pretty normal,
> while a mouse *on* my monitor, would make me go out to buy traps.

heh, the image i had when i read that was of a computer mouse being
positioned on top of the monitor.

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comp.tools.unusable or something... ;-)

Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
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> On 2003-12-01, Morgan Landry <me@privacy.net> wrote:
> >
> > Writing yet another paper, and I need your help again. This is for
> > people who know another language besides English.

> Does Californian count?

How about pgp?

How can you possibly justify the use of pgp in a frivolous post
like this?

Please show some consideration for the usenet community by
restricting your use of pgp to situations where it is warranted.

cordially, as always,

rm