[Debconf-discuss] [OT] Can you repeat, please? (was Re: Thank you, organizers and volunteers and everyone)
Hi there! Please do not Cc: me, I read the list, thanks. On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 17:39 -0400, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > > Looking forward to attend DebConf11, where probably "say what?" and > > "what's that?" will need to found a good counterpart (Zack and Biella, > > you know about that...). > > Can you please elaborate what was meant by this? Basically, given that I am not an English native speaker, I tend to make errors, thus sometime the person in front of me does not understand. I found out that she/he replies to me with different expressions, used AFAIK without any preference WRT her/his origin. Until now, I have found three of them: "say what?", "what's that?" and "say it again", the first two being a word game Biella, Zack and me started the last days after I explained the above to both of them. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] [OT] Can you repeat, please? (was Re: Thank you, organizers and volunteers and everyone)
On 10 August 2010 19:26, Luca Capello wrote: > Basically, given that I am not an English native speaker, I tend to make > errors, thus sometime the person in front of me does not understand. I > found out that she/he replies to me with different expressions, used > AFAIK without any preference WRT her/his origin. > > Until now, I have found three of them: "say what?", "what's that?" and > "say it again", the first two being a word game Biella, Zack and me > started the last days after I explained the above to both of them. "Say what?" definitely sounds US English. I wouldn't use the other two either. Your basic four UK responses are as follows, in descending order of politeness: "Pardon?", "Sorry?", "Come again?", "What?". For bonus points, elaborate: "I beg your pardon, what did you say?" "I'm terribly sorry, come again?" If all else fails, add more self-deprecation and explanation: "I'm afraid I didn't quite hear, would you mind awfully repeating that please?" This actually happened to me in New York with someone asking for money. It seemed somewhat unfair not to give it to them at that point, after making them repeat themselves so many times. -- Tim Retout ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] [OT] Can you repeat, please? (was Re: Thank you, organizers and volunteers and everyone)
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 02:26:00PM -0400, Luca Capello wrote: > Until now, I have found three of them: "say what?", "what's that?" and > "say it again", the first two being a word game Biella, Zack and me > started the last days after I explained the above to both of them. Wunderbar! SCNR Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] [OT] Can you repeat, please? (was Re: Thank you, organizers and volunteers and everyone)
Tim Retout dijo [Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 08:36:39PM +0100]: > > Until now, I have found three of them: "say what?", "what's that?" and > > "say it again", the first two being a word game Biella, Zack and me > > started the last days after I explained the above to both of them. > > "Say what?" definitely sounds US English. I wouldn't use the other two > either. > > Your basic four UK responses are as follows, in descending order of > politeness: > > "Pardon?", "Sorry?", "Come again?", "What?". > > For bonus points, elaborate: > > "I beg your pardon, what did you say?" > "I'm terribly sorry, come again?" > > If all else fails, add more self-deprecation and explanation: > > "I'm afraid I didn't quite hear, would you mind awfully repeating that > please?" > > This actually happened to me in New York with someone asking for > money. It seemed somewhat unfair not to give it to them at that point, > after making them repeat themselves so many times. Of course, being the minimum wage so crazily high in that so-called first-world, if you didn't give him the requested money, you would be facing the Homeless Union. Well played. At least you made him lose some time with you brit. ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] [OT] Can you repeat, please? (was Re: Thank you, organizers and volunteers and everyone)
Andreas Tille dijo [Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:07:59PM +0200]: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 02:26:00PM -0400, Luca Capello wrote: > > Until now, I have found three of them: "say what?", "what's that?" and > > "say it again", the first two being a word game Biella, Zack and me > > started the last days after I explained the above to both of them. > > Wunderbar! I think mixing de_AR is a bit offtopic here... ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] [OT] Can you repeat, please? (was Re: Thank you, organizers and volunteers and everyone)
Hi Andreas! On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 22:07 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 02:26:00PM -0400, Luca Capello wrote: > > Until now, I have found three of them: "say what?", "what's that?" and > > "say it again", the first two being a word game Biella, Zack and me > > started the last days after I explained the above to both of them. > > Wunderbar! I really missed you and I am sure you would have used this /wonderful/ (pun intended) expression at the end of the Van Cortlandt Track Club bi-monthly 5km cross-country summer race: http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20100806.222131.da0e887a.en.html > SCNR Is this another expression (this time German) I am not aware of? ;-) Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] [OT] Can you repeat, please? (was Re: Thank you, organizers and volunteers and everyone)
Hi there! On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 20:36 +0100, Tim Retout wrote: > > Until now, I have found three of them: "say what?", "what's that?" and > > "say it again", the first two being a word game Biella, Zack and me > > started the last days after I explained the above to both of them. > > "Say what?" definitely sounds US English. I wouldn't use the other two > either. > > Your basic four UK responses are as follows, in descending order of > politeness: [...] Thank you Tim, I thought that given your elaborate reply we have enough material for a wiki page: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/CanYouRepeatPlease Adnan, you can now create a similar DebConf11 wiki page ;-) Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] [OT] Can you repeat, please? (was Re: Thank you, organizers and volunteers and everyone)
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 01:45:09PM -0400, Luca Capello wrote: > > Wunderbar! > > I really missed you and I am sure you would have used this /wonderful/ > (pun intended) expression at the end of the Van Cortlandt Track Club > bi-monthly 5km cross-country summer race: > > http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20100806.222131.da0e887a.en.html I really enjoyed Christian's report and it's a real pity that I was unable to join - specifically the DD running in a kilt might have beaten the DD with kilt taking a bath in Argentina in winter time. ;-) Any links to photos of your performance??? Wunderbar! > > SCNR > > Is this another expression (this time German) I am not aware of? ;-) Yes. The German translation is something like "Kilt wearing Italians are doing strange things all over the world". See you next year Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] [OT] Can you repeat, please? (was Re: Thank you, organizers and volunteers and everyone)
Quoting Andreas Tille (andr...@an3as.eu): > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 01:45:09PM -0400, Luca Capello wrote: > > > Wunderbar! > > > > I really missed you and I am sure you would have used this /wonderful/ > > (pun intended) expression at the end of the Van Cortlandt Track Club > > bi-monthly 5km cross-country summer race: > > > > http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20100806.222131.da0e887a.en.html > > I really enjoyed Christian's report and it's a real pity that I was > unable to join - specifically the DD running in a kilt might have beaten > the DD with kilt taking a bath in Argentina in winter time. ;-) > Any links to photos of your performance??? There's only one photo of it, AFAIK, and it's still on my laptop, travelling through USA with jerky net connections. And my gallery is still stuck (I can't upload photos to it!). So you may have to wait. ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
