Re: first message

2003-06-25 Thread Averbuch
Lucy - welcome! Arthur - what does "Abracos" mean? how do you pronounce it? (promise to Tell you why I asked at your response) Shalom Tova israel -Original Message- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu]On Behalf Of Artur Ferreira da Silva Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 11:08

Re: Res: Re: first message

2003-06-25 Thread Artur Ferreira da Silva
Hi Lucy: Sorry to inform you but the majority of participantes here don´t speak Portuguese or Spanish. Most of them have English as their first language and the others also write in English. When I have used one sentence in Portuguese it was sort of a joke. But I think that your English is "goo

Re: first message

2003-06-25 Thread Artur Ferreira da Silva
At 02:45 25-06-2003 +0200, Averbuch wrote: Arthur - what does "Abracos" mean? how do you pronounce it? (promise to Tell you why I asked at your response) Hi Tova "Abraços" means "hugs" but is used in a more coloquial sense than in English. it's pronnound (difficult question) as A - muet A

Re: first message

2003-06-25 Thread Artur Ferreira da Silva
At 16:58 24-06-2003 -0700, Chris Corrigan wrote: Oh yeah...Hebrew and Arabic too... I don´t think our characters (code pages) suport that... Artur * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu -- To subscribe, unsubs

Re: Res: Re: first message - to Joelle

2003-06-25 Thread Artur Ferreira da Silva
At 20:11 24-06-2003 -0400, Joelle Lyons Everett wrote: It is true that not many of us speak portugese, but some of us would like to learn a little. So, Lucy, I invite you to practice your english, which is fine, and also give me a chance to puzzle over your portugese--when I read it over a coupl

Re: First Message

2003-06-25 Thread BrendanMcKeague
How delightful is this conversation about use of language - in light of some current 'research' that provides other reasons for learning new languages 1.The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the Canadians, British or Americans. 2. The Mexicans eat a lot

Res: Re: First Message

2003-06-25 Thread Lucy Ge�o
your combination of "research"and "black humor" is delightful too and I will show it to some friends of mine. I am sure that they will love so much as I am. thanks a lot. lucy ---Mensagem original--- De: OSLIST Data: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 23:26:11 Para: osl...@listserv.boisestate.e

Re: first message

2003-06-25 Thread florian fischer
tova, it is »take a hug« or hugs take it florian Averbuch schrieb: > Lucy - welcome! > Arthur - what does "Abracos" mean? how do you pronounce it? > (promise to Tell you why I asked at your response) > Shalom > Tova > > israel > > - * * ===

�Algo en espa�ol...?

2003-06-25 Thread Jaime Pedreros Fitzgerald
Hola apreciad@s amig@s!! Hace algún tiempo ofrecí ayudarles en las traducciones (principalmente al/del inglés y algo de francés) a español. Gracias al revuelo causado por Lucy actualizo esta oferta y también les digo que de cuando en cuando pondré algunos mensajes en mi idioma. Dear list,

Re: �Algo en espa�ol...?

2003-06-25 Thread Ashley Cooper
jamie, gracias para el espanol. necesito practicar mucho pero me gusta la idioma. tengo una pregunta en su mensaje unas palabras parece diferente que las mismas en un otra "font". ?hay especiales letras o solamente para el computador? alg?n ofrec? franc?s algún ofrecí francés muchas gracias

Re: [OSLIST] ¿Algo en español...?

2003-06-25 Thread Artur Ferreira da Silva
Hola Jaime y Ashley Nice to read your words in Spanish. I imagine that some people in this list think that I am crazy about languages (which is probably true...). At least now I am not alone... And I think that Michael Herman will accept your offer, Jaime, and ask you to contribute in Spanish to

resolutions ...

2003-06-25 Thread Susanne Hildebrand
Hallo everybody, does anybody know when Harrisons article "Resolutions for a new millenium" (its on openspaceworld.com) in The Journal for Quality and Participation was published? Still working like crazy all the warm summernights on something like "effects of open space and it´s emancipatory pot

Re: resolutions ...

2003-06-25 Thread Harrison Owen
At 11:27 PM 6/25/2003 +0200, you wrote: Hallo everybody, does anybody know when Harrisons article "Resolutions for a new millenium" (its on openspaceworld.com) in The Journal for Quality and Participation was published? I don't know about "everybody" -- but I don't have a clue. Seems like it w

Pattern Languages

2003-06-25 Thread Michael Herman
hi all... anybody here on the list done any thinking about how ost syncs up with the work on pattern languages and the nature of order by chris alexander and the agile/xp software development crowd? seems to directly parallel complexity and ost work we usually talk about here. i've written a p