In message , at 09:33:34 on Thu, 12 Jan
2017, d remarked:

You would clearly be surprised how many naturalised foreigners there are
in the country.

If they are naturalised, are they foreigners?

No, and that's the point. People assume that everyone with a "foreign
accent" is a "foreigner".

Yes they are. If you weren't born here you're foreign accemt or no. End of.

I presume you've never had the urge to work overseas?
--
Roland Perry

wrote:
On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:58:23 +0000
Recliner wrote:
On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:32:45 +0000, Basil Jet
wrote:

On 2017\01\12 09:11, Recliner wrote:
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at
18:41:17 on Wed, 11 Jan 2017, Arthur Figgis
remarked:

You would clearly be surprised how many naturalised foreigners there are
in the country.

If they are naturalised, are they foreigners?

No, and that's the point. People assume that everyone with a "foreign
accent" is a "foreigner".

Some people also assume that of anyone with dark skin.

White Americans tend to call black Londoners "African Americans"!

I hadn't heard that one! Of course, I've also made the mistake of
calling black Americans Afro-Americans.

Obviously I'm not keeping up with the exponentially rising curve of
perceived insults any more. What have they decided is wrong with afro-america
now?

The current politically correct term is African-American. Saying
Afro-American implies a comment on their hair-style.

On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:27:11 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 09:32:07 on Thu, 12 Jan
2017, d remarked:

Since no one has any idea who invented blockchain and bitcoin there's no way
of knowing if they're a young genius or an ageing professor.

Er, it's people deploying solutions based on blockchain I was referring
to.

Deploying software has even less requirement for "fresh minds" than writing
it.

Deploying is not the same as installing a shrink-wrap application. It

No, but nor does it require any great leap of inspiration or a new way to look
at a problem. Its all pretty much working to a checklist.

--
Spud

On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:28:10 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 09:33:34 on Thu, 12 Jan
2017, d remarked:

You would clearly be surprised how many naturalised foreigners there are
in the country.

If they are naturalised, are they foreigners?

No, and that's the point. People assume that everyone with a "foreign
accent" is a "foreigner".

Yes they are. If you weren't born here you're foreign accemt or no. End of.

I presume you've never had the urge to work overseas?

What exactly has that got to do with the definition of a foreigner?

--
Spud

On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:59:17 -0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote:
wrote:
Obviously I'm not keeping up with the exponentially rising curve of
perceived insults any more. What have they decided is wrong with afro-america
now?

The current politically correct term is African-American. Saying
Afro-American implies a comment on their hair-style.

Perhaps these days they'd prefer Nike-tick-american then

--
Spud

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
...
In message , at 10:57:04 on Thu, 12 Jan 2017,
tim... remarked:

Uber would be disappointed (they call themselves a tech firm).

but they ain't an engineering firm, they are an internet(ish) firm

Hmm, no such thing as software engineering, eh?#

well of course

but that doesn't make their product an "engineering" product, does it

In message , at 17:44:23 on Thu, 12 Jan
2017, tim... remarked:

Uber would be disappointed (they call themselves a tech firm).

but they ain't an engineering firm, they are an internet(ish) firm

Hmm, no such thing as software engineering, eh?#

well of course

but that doesn't make their product an "engineering" product, does it

Uber claims their platform is.
--
Roland Perry

In message , at 16:26:38 on Thu, 12 Jan
2017, d remarked:
Since no one has any idea who invented blockchain and bitcoin there's no way
of knowing if they're a young genius or an ageing professor.

Er, it's people deploying solutions based on blockchain I was referring
to.

Deploying software has even less requirement for "fresh minds" than writing
it.

Deploying is not the same as installing a shrink-wrap application. It

No, but nor does it require any great leap of inspiration or a new way to look
at a problem. Its all pretty much working to a checklist.

Perhaps I'm making the mistake that you have any kind of non-robotic
input to the projects you are involved in.
--
Roland Perry

In message , at 16:28:46 on Thu, 12 Jan
2017, d remarked:
You would clearly be surprised how many naturalised foreigners there are
in the country.

If they are naturalised, are they foreigners?

No, and that's the point. People assume that everyone with a "foreign
accent" is a "foreigner".

Yes they are. If you weren't born here you're foreign accemt or no. End of.

I presume you've never had the urge to work overseas?

What exactly has that got to do with the definition of a foreigner?

That if you went to work overseas you'd be discriminated against as a
foreigner, even if you jumped through the hoops to become a naturalised
citizen.
--
Roland Perry

"Arthur Figgis" wrote

On 11/01/2017 15:55, Roland Perry wrote:

Some are much better than that. I knew what we might call a barrister in
Germany who was German but had spent some time in the USA. His accent
was indistinguishable from a mother tongue USA-ian.

But how did he use the word "since"?

https://johnnygermanic.wordpress.com/

Not accent but word choice ?

I’m through / Ich bin durch



--
Mike D