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March 31st 12, 01:10 AM
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Graham Nye writes:
Guy is pointing out that you are cross- posting to two newsgroups where we call such devices mobiles. So if "cellular" is an international concept, is it acceptable to everyone else for Guy to pretend to be obtuse? It's fine with me. If you're not interested in how things are done in the UK why are you cross-posting to UK newsgroups? Wait, what exactly is the argument here...? I mean, it's not as if anybody was actually confused by what Adam said... -miles -- Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. |
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March 31st 12, 04:46 AM
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On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:10:00 +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
Graham Nye writes: Guy is pointing out that you are cross- posting to two newsgroups where we call such devices mobiles. So if "cellular" is an international concept, is it acceptable to everyone else for Guy to pretend to be obtuse? It's fine with me. If you're not interested in how things are done in the UK why are you cross-posting to UK newsgroups? Wait, what exactly is the argument here...? It's more of a linguistic study; nobody has queried anyone else's intelligence or parentage yet. ;-) I mean, it's not as if anybody was actually confused by what Adam said... I think someone anticipated him causing confusion but was reassured that we haven't been confused. |
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March 31st 12, 09:52 AM
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Miles Bader wrote on 31 March 2012 02:10:00 ...
Graham writes: Guy is pointing out that you are cross- posting to two newsgroups where we call such devices mobiles. So if "cellular" is an international concept, is it acceptable to everyone else for Guy to pretend to be obtuse? It's fine with me. If you're not interested in how things are done in the UK why are you cross-posting to UK newsgroups? Wait, what exactly is the argument here...? That people are continually posting to uk.transport.london (a) about non-transport non-London matters, and (b) with an assumption that their audience is American or at any rate understands US-only variants of English. 971 posts so far in this thread, according to Google Groups. Follow-ups set to exclude u.t.l -- Richard J. (to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address) |
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