I seem to recall that American companies selling European rail-passes still refer to the UK system as "BR". At least, that's the impression I get from browsing websites.
Chauncer is a misspelling, even by Middle English standards. The nonexistence of a standard spelling for most words doesn't mean that all spellings were equally good. All the variants of treatys were pronounced the same, for instance, and this made them acceptable variants. The guy's name was Chaucer, however. Maybe he spelt it in various ways, but Chauncer isn't likely to be one of them, since it's pronounced differently. :) Besides, the/. editors are meant to be writing _modern_ English, where standardised spelling is the norm.
Four folk showed/found each other - meeting outside wasn't such a bright
idea since half the pavement (sidewalk) was under construction.
I must say it's not easy to go into a pub looking for people you've
never seen before and whose names you don't know... Still, it could have
been worse, it only took me an hour to find yiz.
Sorry I forget everybody's name (I'm hopeless like that) but it was an
interesting cross-section:
Usually I do too, but on this occasion my inability to remember names
misfired. Behold:
C++ grrl That was lnr, apparantly vowelless.
uber-hardware geek boy (the equivelent of mainframe disk pack in his
rucksack!) The enigmatically firstnameless moylan.
math geek C'est moi, and my name was stephen... or was I
matthew?
COBOL revisionist (me). For your information, your name was 'tam'.
Much beer consumed, and many interesting discussions across a range
of geeky topics. Much fun had (and maybe a couple of Go [britgo.org]
converts!).
Yep, I'll be along!
a.
The best way to remove a virus is with vi and a steady hand.
I'm no muslim. I can't say for sure, but I suspect a less fanatical interpretation of the pillar of jihad is that the 'holy war' is the internal war of faith - that by performing jihad you waging war against your tendency not to submit to Allah. Submission to Allah is the meaning of Islam, a muslim is one who submits.
Historically it might arise from the struggles Muhammad engaged in to establish his montheistic faith in the 7th (?) century. As far as I know, Arabs then were (in contrast to the Jews and Christians who also lived in northern Arabia)very often polytheistic and there must have been political resistance to Muhammad's movement.
a.
Disclaimer: IANAM - IANAA
(I am not a muslim).
(I am not an arab)
What gave it away I think was the emphatic 'all' in the
sentence "...how java was 7 - 9% faster on all Windows implementations...". Not to mention the vast improbability of that sentence...
Come to think of it, I think perhaps java was a troll too.
(If you're doubtful of bob's trolliness, check his homepage;) )
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Silly boy.
I seem to recall that American companies selling European rail-passes still refer to the UK system as "BR". At least, that's the impression I get from browsing websites.
"British Rail" hasn't existed in over a decade...
Chauncer is a misspelling, even by Middle English standards. The nonexistence of a standard spelling for most words doesn't mean that all spellings were equally good. All the variants of treatys were pronounced the same, for instance, and this made them acceptable variants. The guy's name was Chaucer, however. Maybe he spelt it in various ways, but Chauncer isn't likely to be one of them, since it's pronounced differently.
:) Besides, the /. editors are meant to be writing _modern_ English, where standardised spelling is the norm.
Merely a modern prejustice.
Four folk showed/found each other - meeting outside wasn't such a bright idea since half the pavement (sidewalk) was under construction.
I must say it's not easy to go into a pub looking for people you've never seen before and whose names you don't know... Still, it could have been worse, it only took me an hour to find yiz.
Sorry I forget everybody's name (I'm hopeless like that) but it was an interesting cross-section:
Usually I do too, but on this occasion my inability to remember names misfired. Behold:
C++ grrl That was lnr, apparantly vowelless.
uber-hardware geek boy (the equivelent of mainframe disk pack in his rucksack!) The enigmatically firstnameless moylan.
math geek C'est moi, and my name was stephen... or was I matthew?
COBOL revisionist (me). For your information, your name was 'tam'.
Much beer consumed, and many interesting discussions across a range of geeky topics.
Much fun had (and maybe a couple of Go [britgo.org] converts!).
Yep, I'll be along!
a.
The best way to remove a virus is with vi and a steady hand.
Sure. Dn't you know that all beer is free in Ireland?
I'm no muslim. I can't say for sure, but I suspect a less fanatical interpretation of the pillar of jihad is that the 'holy war' is the internal war of faith - that by performing jihad you waging war against your tendency not to submit to Allah. Submission to Allah is the meaning of Islam, a muslim is one who submits.
Historically it might arise from the struggles Muhammad engaged in to establish his montheistic faith in the 7th (?) century. As far as I know, Arabs then were (in contrast to the Jews and Christians who also lived in northern Arabia)very often polytheistic and there must have been political resistance to Muhammad's movement.
a.
Disclaimer: IANAM - IANAA
(I am not a muslim).
(I am not an arab)
Mmmm... the smell of freshly baked troll....
What gave it away I think was the emphatic 'all' in the sentence "...how java was 7 - 9% faster on all Windows implementations...". Not to mention the vast improbability of that sentence...
Come to think of it, I think perhaps java was a troll too.
(If you're doubtful of bob's trolliness, check his homepage ;) )
a.
You have been trolled. Have a nice day.
I mean.... frogger ? ;)
a.
The best way to remove a virus is with vi and a steady hand