From: Adrian Tritschler <ajft@ajft.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] nsf funding research into better (operating) systems
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:55:24 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <416F2E0C.5040605@ajft.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <207b70e098020cbe467fafafeb9e7121@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp>
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Kenji Okamoto wrote:
> Thanks Ron.
>>US Gummint is one way to say: "United States Government"
My favourite US saying is "If the opposite of pro- is con-, what is the
opposite of progress?"
> This is understandable to me when I was taught the meaning.
> The thing always annoyes me is Bob is Robert. I asked why this
> can be the Americans around me when I was in US, and got no
> solid answer. Most just smiled. Bob has quite different sound
> from Robert, hasn't it?
Bob and Rob sound very similar in English (Australian English).
Many people called John seem to be called Jack (although that seems to
be an early to mid- 20th century abbreviation, not so common now).
I'm curious how much of the SMS message-speak is dependent on language.
When I see messages such as "c u l8r", phonetically in English it is
"see you later" which makes sense in English. Try it in Spanish (the
only other language I'm at least vaguely familiar with) and I think you
end up with "kuh uh lu-ocho-r"
Maybe time for an overlay file-system that translates file names into
localised spellings!
> In case of Rob = Robert, I can understand it, of course.
> Off topic, sorry.
Always relevant on an internationally distributed mailing list.
> Kenji
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-15 1:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-14 4:16 geoff
2004-10-14 5:35 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-14 6:12 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-10-14 6:57 ` geoff
2004-10-14 7:12 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-10-14 15:29 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-14 16:38 ` Dave Lukes
2004-10-15 1:14 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-10-15 1:55 ` Adrian Tritschler [this message]
2004-10-18 4:52 ` Martin C.Atkins
2004-10-18 7:00 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-10-18 7:40 ` Martin C.Atkins
2004-10-29 2:01 ` [9fans] venti i/o error arisawa
2004-10-29 4:37 ` arisawa
2004-10-18 13:28 ` [9fans] nsf funding research into better (operating) systems boyd, rounin
2004-10-18 16:05 ` [9fans] l8r, etc Martin C.Atkins
2004-10-19 14:41 ` rog
2004-10-15 0:19 [9fans] nsf funding research into better (operating) systems YAMANASHI Takeshi
2004-10-15 5:48 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-15 12:56 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2004-10-15 6:19 YAMANASHI Takeshi
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