I guess it wouldn't be so bad if we didn't work for clients and have to travel on site, and many of our clients will ONLY want US Citizens.
What does this mean? Is this about understanding accents, or xenophobia? Would they have a problem with, say, a Canadian citizen, or an Irish, British, or Australian one? All of these (and many others) can safely be assumed to speak English natively.
When I arrived at Penn State, I was assigned a new student ID, as I was an international student and didn't yet have a SSN. A few weeks later, when the INS told them I had one all along (J-1 visa years before -- I didn't know the record persisted), they switched to using it. They didn't bother to tell me, either, so it was a while before I found out why I couldn't activate my e-mail acocunt.
The point being, they *can* generate perfectly good identifiers; they just don't want to.
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When the stories were translated into English, they changed some of the names -- asterisk and obelisk are valid English words too, so they stayed the same, but many of the other characters got renamed so the (awful) puns would still work. For example:
Vitalstatistx was the (rather fat) chief of the village.
Dogmatix was Asterix's dog.
Unhygenix was the village fishmonger.
Fullyautomatix was the village blacksmith.
... and this one I didn't understand for years...
Getafix was the village druid (who cooked up the magic potion for our heroes).
Lots more names, but those are the main ones that changed in English, I believe.
I think if you look at your parent poster's use of blockquote (or whatever), you'll see that (s)he was saying the same thing -- someone else was making the Linux assertion, (s)he was questioning it.
You want to see a high-concept new show that's actually worth your hour? Check out John Doe. A slightly sci-fi, slightly X-Files, slightly CSI type show that delivers on suspense, mystery, and solid writing.
Oh come on. John Doe just rehashes Nowhere Man, but with a beefier guy playing lead. Face it -- it's simply the subjugation of SciFi to the Cult of the Cleft Chin.
It's the mobile phones and beepers that oughta be jammed -- in movie theaters, restaurants, and anywhere where you, the cell phone owner, are surrounded with people who are not using cell phones and aren't even thinking about cell phones.
I disagree. Just in places where silence is expected and needed. There's no reason someone in a restaurant can't take/make a mobile phone call, if they know to keep their voice down to the level of normal conversation. But in a cinema or theatre or library, it's totally unacceptable.
I think this kind of conflict happens in other countries, too. The adage in legislative terms is: "it is easier to create than to destroy". That is, it's easier to enact something new, rather than repeal something old. I can think of two reasons for this:
(1) practical -- it's very difficult to prove, in any kind of all-cases, mathematical, way, what all the consequences of a particular law are; so it's also difficult to prove what the consequences would be of removing it and replacing it with a different law, so patchwork laws happen, new cases being dealt with by incremental legislation, instead of a clean sweep.
(2) political -- it's very embarrassing for lawmakers to have spent time and money pushing for a new law, only to have to take it back a year or two later, because it is, in fact, a pile of crap. Joe Public might get the impression Parliament (or Congress, or the Dail, or whatever) wasn't efficient.
Well, I followed the link the AC poster provided, and it seems to lead to a website belonging to a mishmash of Christian denominations. What I couldn't see was anything Roman Catholic (or Lutheran, for that matter). I don't know if the various churches in the directory are actually part of the same denomination, but none of them were Catholic.
So while you might be correct about the general intention of posters on/. (though I never got that impression), this individual seems to be bucking the trend.
Firstly, the Jehovah's Witnesses are not regarded as a Christian demonination by anyone but themselves. The viewpoint of the Christian church is that they are a cult.
Excuse me? "The Christian Church"? Which one? There are dozens, perhaps hundreds.
No you can't, but that's no reason not to try. I mean, death and is inevitable as well, but there's no reason to hurry it along.
Same thing happens at home (Ireland) with the word referendum. People pluralise it as if it were a neuter 2nd declension noun -- referenda, when in fact it's a gerund (or gerundive, I forget which), not a noun at all, in Latin. But in English it is a noun, and its plural is therefore referendums. Nothing else makes sense.
Right now, virii is wrong. Sure in the future, if enough people make the same mistake, it'll become the right plural, in some sense. But why help it along? As the perl.com link demonstrates, using fake plurals like virii is being pretentious. It *sounds* plausible, but by helping it along, you just spread ignorance.
My point? If in doubt, just use the normal English rules of pluralisation: add an "s".
It's been suggested before, but if all e-mails had a small (say US$0.02) charge associated with sending them, bulk e-mailers would have to be much more careful. They like it because it's virtually free, so a tiny tiny number of replies will pay off. If you change the economics, you change their business model.
In italy there is hardly and seperation between church and state, the vatican pretty much runs it all. The catholic religion is a very HUGE part of italian culture and to the italians desecrating the virgin is a VERY serious thing. I know this because my family is VERY italian and despite living in the USA we still hold strong to our belief system.
Without intending any personal offence, what you say about Italy could be said about Ireland also (well, except the Vatican stuff). But as a "zeroth-generation" Irishman living in the U.S., I've noticed that Irish-Americans tend on the whole to be much more conservative and old-fashioned than people actually *living* in Ireland. That's a broad, sweeping statement, but decendents of emigrants get nostalgic about "the homeland". So *if* your family has been in the U.S. for a generation or more, you may find their beliefs and attitudes not very representative of Italians.
When technology exceeds what is needed for current tasks, new tasks will arise.
That sounds a lot like Parkinson's Law. It used to be that necessity was the mother of invention. Now smaller, apparently useless inventions are the mothers of inventions. Unless someone designed this to store all the spam e-mail they get?
I'm sure expire is an intransitive verb: things expire, but you can't expire something. So the heading should be "Norwegian Government Allows Microsoft Contract To Expire".
Yes, it was done using 1960s tech. Rocket-firing was actually done even earlier with German V1 and V2 rockets, which is why the US brought in the German rocket scientists (despite petty little niggles like them being war criminals) to man its space program.
Side question: why were they war criminals? Because they fought for the wrong side? Or did they do something truly awful? Mengele I could believe, but rockets/munitions experts?
I don't mean to flame, but I'd like to know what they did that was so bad.
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What the last reply said, but I'd be more definite: "lays to rest".
And it's not just Australianese. It's also British (and Irish) English.
What does this mean? Is this about understanding accents, or xenophobia? Would they have a problem with, say, a Canadian citizen, or an Irish, British, or Australian one? All of these (and many others) can safely be assumed to speak English natively.
I'm genuinely curious here
When I arrived at Penn State, I was assigned a new student ID, as I was an international student and didn't yet have a SSN. A few weeks later, when the INS told them I had one all along (J-1 visa years before -- I didn't know the record persisted), they switched to using it. They didn't bother to tell me, either, so it was a while before I found out why I couldn't activate my e-mail acocunt.
The point being, they *can* generate perfectly good identifiers; they just don't want to.
When the stories were translated into English, they changed some of the names -- asterisk and obelisk are valid English words too, so they stayed the same, but many of the other characters got renamed so the (awful) puns would still work. For example:
... and this one I didn't understand for years ...
Vitalstatistx was the (rather fat) chief of the village.
Dogmatix was Asterix's dog.
Unhygenix was the village fishmonger.
Fullyautomatix was the village blacksmith.
Getafix was the village druid (who cooked up the magic potion for our heroes).
Lots more names, but those are the main ones that changed in English, I believe.
I think if you look at your parent poster's use of blockquote (or whatever), you'll see that (s)he was saying the same thing -- someone else was making the Linux assertion, (s)he was questioning it.
Well, they tell you they aren't English teachers.
You want to see a high-concept new show that's actually worth your hour? Check out John Doe. A slightly sci-fi, slightly X-Files, slightly CSI type show that delivers on suspense, mystery, and solid writing.
Oh come on. John Doe just rehashes Nowhere Man, but with a beefier guy playing lead. Face it -- it's simply the subjugation of SciFi to the Cult of the Cleft Chin.
Uh-uh. Demi Moore's film was Striptease. Showgirls was someone else entirely.
But since I bothered posting this, can I ask which film you actually had in mind? I saw the latter (God it was bad) but not the former.
So make sure you have image-loading switched off by default.
Yes. RTFA -- second-last paragraph.
I disagree. Just in places where silence is expected and needed. There's no reason someone in a restaurant can't take/make a mobile phone call, if they know to keep their voice down to the level of normal conversation. But in a cinema or theatre or library, it's totally unacceptable.
Sounds like diso is in the advertising business ...
I think this kind of conflict happens in other countries, too. The adage in legislative terms is: "it is easier to create than to destroy". That is, it's easier to enact something new, rather than repeal something old. I can think of two reasons for this:
(1) practical -- it's very difficult to prove, in any kind of all-cases, mathematical, way, what all the consequences of a particular law are; so it's also difficult to prove what the consequences would be of removing it and replacing it with a different law, so patchwork laws happen, new cases being dealt with by incremental legislation, instead of a clean sweep.
(2) political -- it's very embarrassing for lawmakers to have spent time and money pushing for a new law, only to have to take it back a year or two later, because it is, in fact, a pile of crap. Joe Public might get the impression Parliament (or Congress, or the Dail, or whatever) wasn't efficient.
Just my two cent.
In this case, I think you mean "effect change". Spellcheckers don't catch everything.
Well, I followed the link the AC poster provided, and it seems to lead to a website belonging to a mishmash of Christian denominations. What I couldn't see was anything Roman Catholic (or Lutheran, for that matter). I don't know if the various churches in the directory are actually part of the same denomination, but none of them were Catholic.
/. (though I never got that impression), this individual seems to be bucking the trend.
So while you might be correct about the general intention of posters on
Sorry to have dragged this off-topic.
Excuse me? "The Christian Church"? Which one? There are dozens, perhaps hundreds.
No you can't, but that's no reason not to try. I mean, death and is inevitable as well, but there's no reason to hurry it along.
Same thing happens at home (Ireland) with the word referendum. People pluralise it as if it were a neuter 2nd declension noun -- referenda, when in fact it's a gerund (or gerundive, I forget which), not a noun at all, in Latin. But in English it is a noun, and its plural is therefore referendums. Nothing else makes sense.
Right now, virii is wrong. Sure in the future, if enough people make the same mistake, it'll become the right plural, in some sense. But why help it along? As the perl.com link demonstrates, using fake plurals like virii is being pretentious. It *sounds* plausible, but by helping it along, you just spread ignorance.
My point? If in doubt, just use the normal English rules of pluralisation: add an "s".
How about *paying* for e-mails?
It's been suggested before, but if all e-mails had a small (say US$0.02) charge associated with sending them, bulk e-mailers would have to be much more careful. They like it because it's virtually free, so a tiny tiny number of replies will pay off. If you change the economics, you change their business model.
Without intending any personal offence, what you say about Italy could be said about Ireland also (well, except the Vatican stuff). But as a "zeroth-generation" Irishman living in the U.S., I've noticed that Irish-Americans tend on the whole to be much more conservative and old-fashioned than people actually *living* in Ireland. That's a broad, sweeping statement, but decendents of emigrants get nostalgic about "the homeland".
So *if* your family has been in the U.S. for a generation or more, you may find their beliefs and attitudes not very representative of Italians.
Apart from that, I'm with you 100%.
News Flash: nobody cares. As an alumni, I can assure you that in the real world, the name of our mutual alma mater is just too damn big. So chill.
Unless you have multiple personalities, I suggest you're only an alumnus (or alumna, depending on gender). alumni is plural.
Isn't that what the article said?
Only after they corrected the front-page reference.
When technology exceeds what is needed for current tasks, new tasks will arise.
That sounds a lot like Parkinson's Law. It used to be that necessity was the mother of invention. Now smaller, apparently useless inventions are the mothers of inventions. Unless someone designed this to store all the spam e-mail they get?
I'm sure expire is an intransitive verb: things expire, but you can't expire something. So the heading should be "Norwegian Government Allows Microsoft Contract To Expire".
I don't mean to flame, but I'd like to know what they did that was so bad.
Thanks; I didn't consider the history.