On Monday 01 September 2003 23:13, Geoff Thurman wrote:
Apologies for picking up a dropped thread, particularly when it has
little (read nothing) to do with Debian, but a couple of things have
been gnawing away at my mind. I have snipped from various branches of
the thread:
On 2003-08-19
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:02 am, cr wrote:
On Monday 01 September 2003 23:13, Geoff Thurman wrote:
Apologies for picking up a dropped thread, particularly when it has
little (read nothing) to do with Debian, but a couple of things
have been gnawing away at my mind. I have snipped from
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:37:28PM +0200, Geoff Thurman wrote:
It also seems that the apple in the garden of Eden might 'in fact' have
been a pomegranate, in which case it does go back rather a long way.
It puzzles me where these theories come from. The Bible doesn't say
it's an apple or any
Apologies for picking up a dropped thread, particularly when it has
little (read nothing) to do with Debian, but a couple of things have
been gnawing away at my mind. I have snipped from various branches of
the thread:
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 01:40, Chris Metzler wrote:
Um. . .whinging is
On Monday 01 September 2003 1:13 pm, Geoff Thurman wrote:
Apologies for picking up a dropped thread, particularly when it has
little (read nothing) to do with Debian, but a couple of things have
been gnawing away at my mind. I have snipped from various branches of
the thread:
On Tuesday 19
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 21:08, Kevin Mark wrote:
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 04:50, Dave Howorth wrote:
cr wrote:
Hmm, I rarely heard it used in England (though I haven't lived there
for 30+ years), but I've heard it used all the time here in New
Zealand, I thought it was a Kiwi-ism.
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 22:24, Richard Hector wrote:
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 06:21:58PM +1200, cr wrote:
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 01:40, Chris Metzler wrote:
The word whinge, meaning to moan fretfully, actually predates
the word whine.
Hmm, I rarely heard it used in England (though
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 01:40, Chris Metzler wrote:
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 07:12:01 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ( Rob VanFleet) wrote:
Congratulations, you just joined the 10% of the net (not faulting those
who aren't native english speakers) that actually *does* spell whining
right (i.e. not
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 06:21:58PM +1200, cr wrote:
Hmm, I rarely heard it used in England (though I haven't lived there for 30+
years), but I've heard it used all the time here in New Zealand, I thought it
was a Kiwi-ism.
Whinge has been in common usage for as long as I can recall
cr wrote:
Hmm, I rarely heard it used in England (though I haven't lived there for 30+
years), but I've heard it used all the time here in New Zealand, I thought it
was a Kiwi-ism.
Mark wrote:
Whinge has been in common usage for as long as I can recall here (UK).
Probably the thing to do is
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 04:50, Dave Howorth wrote:
cr wrote:
Hmm, I rarely heard it used in England (though I haven't lived there for 30+
years), but I've heard it used all the time here in New Zealand, I thought it
was a Kiwi-ism.
Mark wrote:
Whinge has been in common usage for as
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 06:21:58PM +1200, cr wrote:
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 01:40, Chris Metzler wrote:
The word whinge, meaning to moan fretfully, actually predates
the word whine.
Hmm, I rarely heard it used in England (though I haven't lived there for 30+
years), but I've heard it
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:31:39AM +0100, Mark wrote:
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 06:21:58PM +1200, cr wrote:
Hmm, I rarely heard it used in England (though I haven't lived there
for 30+ years), but I've heard it used all the time here in New
Zealand, I thought it was a Kiwi-ism.
Whinge
Concise Oxford Dictionary gives whinge as (dialect or Australian) and
tracks it back through Old English and Old High German to a probable
root in the Germanic hwinisojan.
Geoff
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 10:50 am, Dave Howorth wrote:
cr wrote:
Hmm, I rarely heard it used in England (though I
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:31:39AM +0100, Mark wrote:
| On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 06:21:58PM +1200, cr wrote:
|
| Hmm, I rarely heard it used in England (though I haven't lived
| there for 30+ years), but I've heard it used all the time here in
| New Zealand, I thought it was a Kiwi-ism.
|
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 18:21:58 +1200
cr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmm, I rarely heard it used in England (though I haven't lived there for
30+ years), but I've heard it used all the time here in New Zealand, I
thought it was a Kiwi-ism.
It may be a kiwi-ism; no idea. But all my English
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:26:07AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:31:39AM +0100, Mark wrote:
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 06:21:58PM +1200, cr wrote:
Hmm, I rarely heard it used in England (though I haven't lived there
for 30+ years), but I've heard it used all the time
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:26:07AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
[SNIP]
I've only got a small OED here, but:
whinge /windz/ v. n. colloq. -- v.intr. whine; grumble peevishly. --
n. a whining complaint; a peevish grumbling. ** whinger n. whingingly
adv. whingy adj. [OE hwinsian f. Gmc]
[snip]
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 02:15:04PM -0700, Wendell Cochran wrote:
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:26:07AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
I've only got a small OED here, but:
whinge /windz/ v. n. colloq. -- v.intr. whine; grumble peevishly. --
n. a whining complaint; a peevish grumbling. ** whinger
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 07:12:01 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ( Rob VanFleet) wrote:
Congratulations, you just joined the 10% of the net (not faulting those
who aren't native english speakers) that actually *does* spell whining
right (i.e. not whinging). Now, just don't call anybody a looser
and
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