[GEM Development] Slashdotted and comments
Peter Green
pspete1 at pnc.com.au
Fri Aug 5 01:03:33 PDT 2005
Glad to be of assistance.
My daughter visited California recently, and discovered that most people
loved her accent, but failed to grasp what she was talking about unless
she adopted US American pronunciations and terminology. So it is a
pleasure to talk to an American who makes an effort to understand us. In
my regular journeys to the Marrickville shops, I am likely to encounter
several varieties of UK English, US English, NZ English, Subcontinental
English, Pacific Islands English, Philippino English, Chinese,
Vietnamese and Laotian English, Greek English and several other
varieties of the language. Understanding isn't always easy, but it's
often worth doing. And it's good when someone else makes the effort with
us. So, thanks again.
I suspected that the socks bit might have been a little obscure in some
circles, though the UK readers should have had some idea of what I
meant, considering that they also have Woolworths -- though the two
firms are totally unrelated. The founder of Woolworths in Australia was
allegedly inspired by the English firm. I think there is also a
Woolworths in NZ, which is an overseas expansion of the Australian company.
"It's a joke, Joyce!" was a line in a BBC Radio comedy series starring
Joyce Grenfell, in which she played a character unable to recognise a
joke when confronted by one. I believe the series played in Australia
for a while.
Cheers,
Peter
Thomas Clayton wrote:
>Thank You!
>
>Sorry to have you type that all, but I would've have
>never gotten some of it - particularly the socks!
>:-)
>
>Tom Clayton
>Chicago, IL area
>96F (~36C?) degrees with humidity today
>(great lack of humidity - and rain - this Summer)
>
>--- Peter Green <pspete1 at pnc.com.au> wrote:
>
>
>
>>Must be an American if he needs subtitles for
>>English :-)
>>
>>GLOSSARY
>>Melbourne: Capital city of our southernmost
>>mainland State --
>> where Chris now lives
>>somewhat brisk: very cold (We Australians, like the
>>English, go in for understatement
>>rather pleasant weather for August: August is
>>generally cold and windy in Sydney
>>18 or 19 deg: Temperatures in degrees Celsius
>>9:30 pm AEST: 9:30 in the evening, Australian
>>Eastern Standard Time.
>>The Great Ocean Road: A coastal road from Melbourne
>>to Adelaide
>> Capital city of South Australia) --
>> considered to be one of the world's best
>> coastal road trips in terms of scenery.
>>The relos: The relatives
>>Sidcup: A town south-east of London, England
>>Kirkby-in-Ashfield: A town North-west of Nottingham,
>>England
>>Salzburg: A town in Austria (a small country south
>>of Germany,
>> not to be confused with Australia).
>> Famous for an annual classical music festival.
>>Oz: "Oz"-tralia. It's a joke, Joyce.
>>Woolly socks: Undershoe footwear knitted from
>>sheep's hair
>>Woolies socks: Socks purchased from the Woolworths
>>supermarket chain.
>>
>>Feel free to enquire (=inquire) about anything else.
>>
>>Peter
>>
>>
>>Thomas Clayton wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Any *non*-Aussie understnd what their saying?
>>>;-)
>>>
>>>Tom Clayton
>>>
>>>
>>>--- Peter Green <pspete1 at pnc.com.au> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Still around, Chris, still alive...
>>>>
>>>>I hear from our Melbourne people that it has been
>>>>somewhat brisk down
>>>>there lately. We've been having rather pleasant
>>>>weather for August --
>>>>about 18 or 19 deg today, and 17 as I write (9:30
>>>>
>>>>
>>pm
>>
>>
>>>>AEST).
>>>>
>>>>Will be doing the Great Ocean Road trip again at
>>>>
>>>>
>>the
>>
>>
>>>>end of the month,
>>>>this time from Adelaide back to Melbourne. We have
>>>>the relos here since
>>>>this morning:
>>>>From Sidcup: Daughter-in-law and new
>>>>
>>>>
>>granddaughter
>>
>>
>>>>(born March)
>>>>From Kirkby-in-Ashfield: Daughter-in-law's
>>>>
>>>>
>>parents.
>>
>>
>>>>Our son (also from Sidcup) is due here in a
>>>>fortnight, after performing
>>>>in Salzburg.
>>>>Having heard our favourable reports from last
>>>>
>>>>
>>year,
>>
>>
>>>>they were keen to do
>>>>the trip while in Oz.
>>>>
>>>>Keep the woolly socks (not the Woolies socks) on!
>>>>
>>>>Cheers,
>>>>
>>>>Peter
>>>>
>>>>Dostal, Chris E. wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Agreed there..
>>>>>
>>>>>I guess with many of the "replies" on that site,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>you have people coming at the discussion from
>>>>various angles. Some reply for the sake of
>>>>
>>>>
>>replying,
>>
>>
>>>>some automatically congratulate and some choose to
>>>>automatically negate anything.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>"This makes it to news - must be a slow news day"
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>-
>>
>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>wonder how many hours he's put in to a project to
>>>>have that said about it, and him? .. people do far
>>>>less and get far more coverage on seemingly
>>>>irrelivant subjects.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Although I'm not what you'd call an active member
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>of FreeDOS and Open/FreeGEM.. I watch with
>>>>
>>>>
>>interest,
>>
>>
>>>>and smile whenever we see a little article in a
>>>>magazine, or a comment on a forum.. I'm also the
>>>>first to jump up if someone ridicules another for
>>>>putting effort into something..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>It's a great OS, a great project - and there's
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>certainly great members of it all here..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Chris.
>>>>>
>>>>>PS: Hope it's a bit warmer up your way Peter
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>Green
>>
>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>(if ya still floating around on this list) - it's
>>>>sure as cold here!! arrrgh
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>________________________________
>>>>>
>>>>>From: gem-dev-bounces at simpits.org on behalf of
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>Night Hawk
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Sent: Sat 30/07/2005 8:51 AM
>>>>>To: gem-dev at simpits.org
>>>>>Subject: RE: [GEM Development] OpenGEM got
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>slashdotted
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Shane,
>>>>>Don't worry about your ego. Quite the reverse.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>The fact that you were
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>"slashdotted" is a *good* thing. OpenGEM is
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>truly
>>
>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>great software. It is
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>not bloated like a certain OS from Microsoft.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>OpenGEM *works* and works
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>well.
>>>>>I have been using computers for over 25 years
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>and
>>
>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>have used almost every
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>GUI/OS there is to use. And I can tell you that
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>OpenGEM is by far better
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>than most of the commerical OS'es.
>>>>>So keep up the good work. Long live OpenGEM!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>And
>>
>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>you get a free Beer,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Irish Beer at that.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Todd
>>>>>The Night Hawk
>>>>>
>>>>>
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