Re: [OT] Languages and cultures (was Re: survey)

2010-02-22 Thread Andre Garzia
Congrats Bernard, happiness to you and yours :-D Now, the important piece, when is the party? Cheers! Andre On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Bernard Devlin bdrun...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Sarah Reichelt sarah.reich...@gmail.com wrote: I think it is changing

Re: [OT] Languages and cultures (was Re: survey)

2010-02-22 Thread Bernard Devlin
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: Congrats Bernard, happiness to you and yours :-D Now, the important piece, when is the party? Cheers! Andre Thanks Andre (and to Richmond, also). It's over 2 years ago since we got 'married', and we just had a

Re: [OT] Languages and cultures (was Re: survey)

2010-02-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 22/02/2010 16:26, Bernard Devlin wrote: On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Andre Garziaan...@andregarzia.com wrote: Congrats Bernard, happiness to you and yours :-D Now, the important piece, when is the party? Cheers! Andre Thanks Andre (and to Richmond, also). It's over 2

Re: [OT] Languages and cultures (was Re: survey)

2010-02-22 Thread Bob Sneidar
If you take the stance that men are capable of deciding what is absolutely moral and immoral, then your objections might carry some weight. What is unfortunate to your point of view, is that men often develop quite different standards of morality. Not entirely foreign mind you, only stricter or

Re: [OT] Languages and cultures (was Re: survey)

2010-02-22 Thread Bernard Devlin
Please let's stop this discussion about religion and morality. Those who like to judge the lives of others, and those who think 'live and let live' are never going to agree. They're incommensurable positions. My apologies for having caused this. Whilst many others have felt free to mention

Re: [OT] Languages and cultures (was Re: survey)

2010-02-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
Kay C Lan wrote: OK, I wasn't going to say anything, but seeings you are stumped, just think of the other benefits the Gay family enjoys... Divorces must be cheap, all you need do is move to a State where Gay marriages aren't recognized ;-) I'll keep that in mind. :) So far we still like each

Re: [OT] Languages and cultures (was Re: survey)

2010-02-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 20/02/2010 10:23, J. Landman Gay wrote: Kay C Lan wrote: OK, I wasn't going to say anything, but seeings you are stumped, just think of the other benefits the Gay family enjoys... Divorces must be cheap, all you need do is move to a State where Gay marriages aren't recognized ;-) I'll

Re: [OT] Languages and cultures (was Re: survey)

2010-02-20 Thread Sarah Reichelt
OK, I wasn't going to say anything, but seeings you are stumped, just think of the other benefits the Gay family enjoys... Divorces must be cheap, all you need do is move to a State where Gay marriages aren't recognized ;-) I'll keep that in mind. :) So far we still like each other though.

Re: [OT] Languages and cultures (was Re: survey)

2010-02-20 Thread Jacques Hausser
We should definitively start a new list dedicated to linguistic questions ! Sorry for falling in it too... To come back to the french equivalent of fortnight (quinze jours, quinzaine). I realised it's quite logical, despite the opinion of Francis (or at least it was logical till the sixties

Re: [OT] Languages and cultures (was Re: survey)

2010-02-20 Thread Bernard Devlin
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Sarah Reichelt sarah.reich...@gmail.com wrote: I think it is changing again. My teenage sons refer to anything they don't like as being gay. So a difficult assignment is gay; missing the bus is gay; a teacher who growls at them is gay. It doesn't have to be a

Re: [OT] Languages and cultures (was Re: survey)

2010-02-20 Thread Martin Baxter
Kay C Lan wrote: On a slightly different note, it's always good to see when someone tries to do the right thing and translate their signs into a foreign language to help tourists. Of course it would help a lot more if they actually used a native speaker, rather than the www:

Re: [OT] Languages and cultures (was Re: survey)

2010-02-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 20/02/2010 12:21, Bernard Devlin wrote: snip Having married a man recently, I certainly feel less than outré than in my youth. You know, that is rather odd; I am married, and I certainly don't think I ever conceived of myself as getting married to a woman - rather; I got married to

Re: [OT] Languages and cultures (was Re: survey)

2010-02-20 Thread Kay C Lan
Classic :-) On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Martin Baxter mb.use...@harbourhosting.co.uk wrote: In Wales, signs have to be bilingual. Quality control is not all it might be though... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7702913.stm -- I am Not a Number, I am a free NaN

Re: [OT] Languages and cultures (was Re: survey)

2010-02-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond Mathewson wrote: Certainly it would be quite difficult to work out the semantic step from 'jolly' to 'homosexual' unless, of course, there was an awareness of the even earlier sense of 'heterosexual looseness'. If I remember right, there was no semantic drift. The group simply

Re: [OT] Languages and cultures (was Re: survey)

2010-02-20 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
I sympathise: On 21/02/2010, at 7:26 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: [...] hen some other family would have been getting 3 AM phone calls from 9 year olds who had various, though usually unoriginal, suggestions for us. [...] Our phone number used to be 1 digit off the number the local radio

Re: [OT] Languages and cultures (was Re: survey)

2010-02-19 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/02/2010 04:35, J. Landman Gay wrote: :) I think I've posted this before but it's too good a line to let go of. A few years ago my husband looked up from the evening news and said, Gay marriage has

Re: [OT] Languages and cultures (was Re: survey)

2010-02-19 Thread Kay C Lan
On a slightly different note, it's always good to see when someone tries to do the right thing and translate their signs into a foreign language to help tourists. Of course it would help a lot more if they actually used a native speaker, rather than the www:

[OT] Languages and cultures (was Re: survey)

2010-02-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bernard Devlin wrote: Every attempt I make at pronouncing a word in Thai is greeted with furrowed brows or hilarity (and often in that order). A Cambodian acquaintance was telling me how Americans just can't hear the different intonations in their language. She gave as an example the words

Re: [OT] Languages and cultures (was Re: survey)

2010-02-18 Thread Mikey
So maybe what you're saying is that they MISTAKENLY eat so much...dog...there. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: [OT] Languages and cultures (was Re: survey)

2010-02-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mikey wrote: So maybe what you're saying is that they MISTAKENLY eat so much...dog...there. I'm not going there, Mikey. :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

Re: [OT] Languages and cultures (was Re: survey)

2010-02-18 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:09 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: Which makes me quite certain that I never, ever want to inquire about a lost dog in Cambodia. What about your poor husband Hi I'm Gay and I'm looking for.. ;-)

Re: [OT] Languages and cultures (was Re: survey)

2010-02-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
Kay C Lan wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:09 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: Which makes me quite certain that I never, ever want to inquire about a lost dog in Cambodia. What about your poor husband Hi I'm Gay and I'm looking for.. ;-) :) I think I've posted

Re: [OT] Languages and cultures (was Re: survey)

2010-02-18 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 19/02/2010 04:35, J. Landman Gay wrote: Kay C Lan wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:09 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: Which makes me quite certain that I never, ever want to inquire about a lost dog in Cambodia. What about your poor husband Hi I'm Gay and I'm