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Jokes apart, after spending the best part of a decade in non-English speaking countries I found my everyday vocabulary had shrunk. I stopped using what we would term as rich language as it would not be understood and so failed at the first hurdle.
When I returned to the UK, I had to relearn to speak proper like what I do now.
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You speak real good.
Actually I feel like that now. I can't use any of the rich, colourful terms we have in Oz becuase I just get blank stares, or worse: they just pick a random interpretation of what they think I said and go with it.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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"They just pick a random interpretation of what they think I said and go with it"
See what you get for actually talking to users?
Software Zen: delete this;
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Chris Maunder wrote: hey just pick a random interpretation of what they think I said and go with it.
Isn't that always the case? 
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Quote: The Death of English as we know it...
As who knows it - the originators or the bastardisers?
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There's an 'originator' of English? I'd love to meet him and have a few words about how he got some parts of his initial design wrong.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Youngin's is not a word.
It is improper to start a sentence with And.
Please do not coach people.
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Colborne_Greg wrote: Youngin's is not a word.
And?
Colborne_Greg wrote: It is improper to start a sentence with And.
Er ....
Colborne_Greg wrote: Please do not coach people.
Are we then to coach dogs, elephants, vultures? No sense your words make.
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It makes sense to intelligent people.
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Then I suggest you relearn the English language.
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There's a lot of bad English in your post. I pity those you're leading.
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Hi All,
Some regulars will be aware of a cluster elephant I have to fix. It seems that the powers that be have finally heeded my advice and have allowed me to rewrite it finally but I have to get something out by Friday (there goes anything I had planned for the evening this week). It's not my fault no one got back to me when I asked a question. Why...
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Sleep: overrated.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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At least I haven't got work out the previous work!
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...finally...
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Oh do it in VB because we know how to mod that? Mod? the abortion I was presented with?? 
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Tell them it can't be done by friday unless you get all next week off with pay (and those off hours are not deducted from your available PTO time).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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That means you will stop to rant about it?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: That means you will stop to rant about it?
I see ranting in the future. 
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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glennPattonWork wrote: but I have to get something out by Friday
What's the problem? That is plenty of time to deliver an estimate. 
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Back in the early '90s, the company I worked out found out a competitor was bringing out a new product. They wanted to beat them to market.
I was asked if I could retrofit the system I supported to be able to able to make a new product and thereby beat the competitors to market... in 2 weeks.
I said, yes, it will require many extra hours, but, if I complete it, I want to attend an upcoming conference.
It was winter in Ontario and the conference was in San Francisco... nice climate change!
I busted my butt, completed and work and attended the conference. 20+ years later, I am working on the system the conference was for... worked out well for me.
Tim
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