Ah, sorry Peter. For some reason, I made the assumption you were from the UK. ;-) My ancestors came from both the Bavarian region as well as from Prussia.
Mark On 10/31/2010 03:51 PM, Peter Blodow wrote: > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
