From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13783 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bud Rogers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Me, the businessperson Date: 04 Feb 1998 15:13:40 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <6fn2g74snl.fsf@bavur.dna.lth.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153086 11127 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:31:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:31:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22965 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:19:33 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA16223 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 15:16:32 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAN20818; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 15:52:01 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 04 Feb 1998 15:14:00 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA29010 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 15:13:52 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 23338 invoked by uid 504); 4 Feb 1998 21:13:48 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 23335 invoked from network); 4 Feb 1998 21:13:46 -0000 Original-Received: from twocups.tanet.net (budr@207.3.90.239) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 4 Feb 1998 21:13:45 -0000 Original-Received: (from budr@localhost) by twocups.tanet.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA00049; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 15:13:41 -0600 Original-To: joda@pdc.kth.se (Johan Danielsson) In-Reply-To: joda@pdc.kth.se's message of "04 Feb 1998 18:42:50 +0100" Original-Lines: 32 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.22/XEmacs 19.15 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13783 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13783 joda@pdc.kth.se (Johan Danielsson) writes: > Even if people speak the same language, they won't necessarily > understand each other. I have a hard time to understand some kinds of > Scanian (which is a southern province of Sweden, for all you > foreigners). I realize this is totally off-topic for the list, but it is also totally fascinating. If I may. Oklahoma is kind of a microcosm of the USA. It's a fairly young state and many families are only 2 or 3 generations away from their roots in "the old country." My ancestry is mostly Irish and English. One of our neighbors is of German ancestry and grew up in a mostly German community. A couple of years ago our neighbor helped us build a house for my father. We had many horrendous arguments about how to do things until we realized we were mostly arguing about language. Even though we were both using English, we were almost speaking two different languages. > Now, is this a theme for some mugs perhaps? How about sayings like "I love gnus" or "GNUS RULES!" in many different languages? A fitting indicator of the international character of gnus. I would love to have a mug like that. Sorry for the diversion. Language is my one weakness. -- Bud Rogers