It's quite OK Andrew. I made a typo of my own in that message. Deliberate or not, I won't say... Franch is how my significant other and I talk about people of the Franch persuasion. She is from the south and they speak... different... down there. Not funny, just different. I completely forgot the their/there/they're situation. I claim to be slow today. their - possessed by... their chair there - somewhere not here they're - 'They are' I were an english/journalism major at one point in my young life. Then I joined the Air Force and found out how much money engineers make. tim - robotics engineer in san jose
>From: Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ> >Reply-To: Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ> >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >Subject: Re: Friday... english lessons... >Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 13:30:30 +1300 > >>It's Friday... it's list related... it's not mentioned with any ill >>harm... >>it just bugs me... there are more, but these hit me quite frequently. >> >>Definition: >> >>looser - opposite of tighter... i.e. the nut got even looser thought I was >>turning it clockwise. >> >>loser - someone who does an engine transplant in a fully loaded Westy with >>a >>1.3 liter NA Renault engine. >> >>lucifer - someone from texass. >> >>======================================================== >> >>to - a place to go... I am going to the Westy Porta Potty. >> >>too - also... My significant other is going there too. >> >>two - number... one less than three, one more than one. > >Dead-on so far... > >>tu - Franch for 'you' if you know them real well. > >Franch?? > > >Oh, english should have a capital E... > >I can add: > >could care less: means you DO care, at least a little > >shock absorber: springs, NOT gas &/or oil damper units > >How about there/their/they're... > >Some folk on this list would have trouble spelling "a". > >Another: > >a lot (often or much), NOT "alot" > >(not targeting you, Aristotle).
_________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail |
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.