air conditioning may be making us fat

Mxsmanic wrote:
The substandard level of English is
almost universal in France.

Sub what standard?

B;

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:33:01 +0200, Martin wrote:

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:55:21 +0200, Tim C.
wrote:

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:36:03 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) writes:

Perhaps that's your problem? Most of us do not try to
divorce a language from the culture in which it exists.

Don't we? Ultimately a language is a tool of communication, nothing
more. Its connections to culture are among its failings.

So how come no-one here understands a word you say? Is it because you
have no culture?

Is the Mixi interrogation going to go on until almost 2 a.m. every
night? The CIA will start to show interest soon, if they haven't
already.

Not tonight for me. Unless I drink too much (again).
--
Tim C.

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 02:21:18 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

Many adults wouldn't consider the mistakes to be serious enough to
bother about.

If that were true, there wouldn't be so many adults studying English.

What has your statement got to do with what I said?
--
Tim C.

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:13:22 +0200, Martin wrote:

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:45:16 -0700, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote:



JohnT wrote:

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message
...


JohnT wrote:


"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message
...


Mxsmanic wrote:



General Electric's computer division (which included a large plant in
Phoenix) was bought by Honeywell and called Honeywell Information
Systems. Later Honeywell formed an alliance with CII in France, and
still later Bull SA joined the fray. So for a time it was
Cii-Honeywell-Bull. Then Bull SA bought out everyone and it became
simply Bull (an unfortunate name for English-speaking markets).

Caught you! you DO have a sense of humour! (Although of course your
straight-faced assertions of the most ridiculous "facts" has already
established that among those of us who recognize when we're being led
on.)



No; he was being serious. And, certainly when I had dealings with that
Company in the dim and distant past no-one ever thought that it was an
unfirtunate name.

Wrong! If you don't find his parenthetical remark funny, perhaps it is
YOU who lack one! (Unless of course, contrary to your screen name, you
are not a native English-speaker, so miss the double-entendre.)


There is a considerable difference between English and American English.

However, I think that particular phrase is common to both.
(At least its meaning is clear to anyone who has encountered
both versions of the language.)

Not necessarily back then.

Quite possibly but I don't recall anybody rolling on the floor with
laughter at the mention of Bull.

I never did. If they had been called "Crap" then I'd have laughed.

Honeywell were frequently referred to by customers as Honeywell
Bull****, mainly because they did little else.
--
Tim C.

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:10:05 +0200, Martin wrote:

On 11 Jul 2006 00:01:41 -0700, wrote:


Mxsmanic wrote:
writes:

That in itself is a mental illness.

How?

What?

Why?

Where?
--
Tim C.

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:07:30 +0100, Padraig Breathnach
wrote:

Mxsmanic wrote:

writes:

Seems to me that fat German philosophers have been over this subject
with a fine tooth comb.

Unlike many other domains, philosophy is never more than conjecture.

That is true only on a philosophic basis that everything is
conjectural. If you accent existence as non-conjectural, then much of
philosophy is non-conjectural.

The difference is that in philosophic thinking the conjectural
components are more clearly identified as such.

er, pardon? :-)
--
Tim C.

On 10 Jul 2006 21:36:07 -0700, wrote:


Tim C. wrote:

And somewhere where one could get a drink on nearly every street
corner.

Dublin, innit?

:-)
Or the Mumbles.
--
Tim C.

Mxsmanic wrote:

[...] Do you think that having a long
temper is a sign of mental illness, for example?

I don't understand this.
--
dgs

Martin wrote:

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:54:15 -0700, dgs wrote:


Mxsmanic wrote:


[...] Do you think that having a long
temper is a sign of mental illness, for example?

I don't understand this.


You need remedial English lessons.

Incorrect, you arrogantly judgemental asshole, but thanks for the
personal attack.
--
dgs

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:11:21 -0700, dgs wrote:

Martin wrote:

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:54:15 -0700, dgs wrote:


Mxsmanic wrote:


[...] Do you think that having a long
temper is a sign of mental illness, for example?

I don't understand this.


You need remedial English lessons.

Incorrect, you arrogantly judgemental asshole, but thanks for the
personal attack.

wooosh!
--
Tim C.