Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 17:39:54 -0800
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From: Joseph Fortino <fortinoj@SPEAKEASY.NET>
Subject: Re: Friday... english lessons...
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>could care less: means you DO care, at least a little
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btw i miss-spell and type-0, bacause i care alittle
rilly i'm of product of the santa clara school system
in Ca. ;)
On 06 Dec 2002, Aristotle Sagan wrote:
> 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).
>
>
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