[lace-chat] Tamara's question

2004-04-11 Thread Clive and Betty Ann Rice
Dear T and other Spiders of inquiring minds Growing up as a real Southern hillbilly, accent and all, we used "each other" to mean two people interacting. Example: "They got each other a birthday present." More often, we would use "one another" in the same text. So...my take on the question

[lace-chat] RE: Motive in Tull book

2004-04-11 Thread Ian & Chelle Long
Gidday Peter, Liz and all,

[lace-chat] Language usage -- again

2004-04-11 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
Gentle Spiders, Somewhere in the deep recesses of my memory, there's a half-buried idea that "each other" and "one another" are *not* the same thing, and are used differently. I seem to remember being taught that one's used when the interraction is limited to two only, and the other's used when

[lace-chat] "Unconditional Love" on DVD

2004-04-11 Thread Jane Viking Swanson
Hi All, My last message of the day. I rented "Unconditional Love" this weekend. It stars Kathy Bates, Rupert Everett and lots of other stars (and cameos). I was a bit put off by the very beginning but ended up being charmed by the movie. It doesn't quite gel, it seems to want to be a few diffe

[lace-chat] "Eats, Shoots, Leaves"

2004-04-11 Thread Jane Viking Swanson
Hi All, There is a little article in Newsweek magazine this week that "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" by Lynne Truss will be released in the US this month! I will be buying a copy! For those of you who weren't on lace chat a couple months ago it's a book about punctuation. The title is part of a jok

Re: [lace-chat] How strange

2004-04-11 Thread Steph Peters
On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 15:31:59 +0100, Brenda wrote: >On 10 Apr 2004, at 12:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> The bit in brackets I had put in as a pound sign and figures but it >> disappeared in transit. > >That's because the pound sign is in the upper ASCII set. Each ASCII >number represents one

Re: [lace-chat] How strange

2004-04-11 Thread Brenda Paternoster
On 10 Apr 2004, at 12:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bit in brackets I had put in as a pound sign and figures but it disappeared in transit. That's because the pound sign is in the upper ASCII set. Each ASCII number represents one character. The lower set (0-127) are standard across all platf

[lace-chat] :-) One to amuse Tamara

2004-04-11 Thread Jean Nathan
Two boys in Boston were playing basketball when one of them was attacked by a rabid Rottweiler. Thinking quickly, the other boy ripped a board off a nearby fence, wedged it into the dog's collar and twisted it, breaking the dog's neck. > > A newspaper reporter from the Boston Herald happened

[lace-chat] thank you SP

2004-04-11 Thread alessandra
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