On 22/11/14 19:50, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 22 November 2014 00:47:00 Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 22/11/14 09:59, Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> On Friday 21 November 2014 22:43:11 Ross Boylan wrote: >>>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Scott Ferguson >>>> >>>> <scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> On 21/11/14 15:13, Ross Boylan wrote: >>>>>> Over the last week I've repeatedly found my machine unbootable, in the >>>>>> sense I couldn't get to a working system without intervention. >>>>>> Sometimes I couldn't even get the grub2 menu. >>>>> >>>>> Tick >>>> >>>> I don't understand what you mean by tick. >>> >>> You Americans! It's lucky that we English can talk American. Tick is >>> the English for check. >>> >>>> [snip] >> >> <snipped> >> >> Correct Lisi, thanks for your "worldly-awareness". If I'd written >> "check" the larger part of the world might interpret that as an >> instruction. My apologies to Ross for the confusion. > > I once had an email from an American with a sentence with the word check in > it > 3 times. He meant cheque, tick - and check. But it did take me a moment or > two to work out. > > Lisi > >
:) Here (Australia), tick is also a blood-sucking insect and a term for "on credit". Those that have demonstrated bad credit[*1] are added to the Cash Up No Tick list. ;p [*1] a cheque is just promise, not worth the paper it's written on. </colloquial banter> [we return you now to the regular Debian User list] Kind regards -- 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/547058a0.50...@gmail.com
