On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 16:16:38 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Lisi writes: >> That didn't even cross my mind. American? Or just your circle? > > His circle. > >> Would the Tea Party concur? > > That meaning of "out" being at the top of the mind is more a San > Francisco sort of thing.
Possibly a Montreal thing, too. But despite being a Montrealer, the originally intended meaning of 'out' was still at the top of my mind. Here we too say, 'I'm out' as a statement of nonparticipation. Or possibly winning or losing in a game, as in Rummy or baseball. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/m3mru0$kgb$1...@ger.gmane.org
