Hi Mark, thanks a lot for the explanations. Language cousins is right - German and English separated about 1200 or 1400 years ago. I'm glad I can follow this mail group's proceedings having stopped practicising English some 45 years ago when I returned from an exchange student stay in Michigan to my family home in Germany. We have, of course, our special expressions in German, too, what's more, we speak Bavarian herabouts which even normal Germans wouldn't understand. But I enjoy this a lot since languages, especially indo-germanic languages, and their history are my big second hobby.
Best wishes from Bavaria Peter Mark Wendt (Contractor) schrieb: > At 02:27 PM 10/30/2010, you wrote: > >> Hello Steve, hello Mark, >> how about a dictionary for non-US-slang people? >> >> Yappadappa doo >> Peter Blodow >> > > Hi Peter, > > Ah yes, the old cousins separated by a common language > thing. How in the world do y'all survive? ;-) A doohickey, a > whatchamacallit, or a thingamajig are three words that describe the > exact same thing. That thing, which we usually can't remember the > correct name for, can be called any of the above three words. Of > course, a few choice 4-letter words which may come to mind when said > doohickey, whatchamacallit, or thingamajig isn't working quite right > are also apropos, as is sometimes throwing said doohickey against the > veritable brick wall. > > I leave the rest to your imagination. > > Mark > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest > Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada > $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing > Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store > http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
