Brits don't speak foreign languages

no problem, martin.
Anything else ?


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On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:45:03 +0100, Josef Kleber
wrote:

Am 06.12.2011 11:38, schrieb Martin:
On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:47:14 +0100, Josef Kleber
wrote:

Am 05.12.2011 23:45, schrieb Martin:
On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:55:31 +0100, Josef Kleber

BTW, while checking for subtitles, i found out that there will be an
"OmU" movie tonight:

23:35 Winterday, love drama, Norway, 2007

In Norwegian?


I did not watch, but i would be surprised if it would have been in
spanish! ;-)

With Arte all things are possible :-)

In an old Arte brochure anything after midnight is described by Google
Chrome's translation as interesting trash movies:-)

Which programme guide are you using?

This
http://www.programme-tv.net/programm...me-arte-1.html

or this
http://www.arte.tv/de/70.html

I use http://www.tvinfo.de and http://www.wunschliste.de for series. I
still use an old school print magazine, where i found the "OmU" info. I
don't know a webpage, which is able to search "OmU".

Josef


Thanks Josef,
--

Martin

hohoho bored old martin has found some nice, long threads.


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On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 22:16:37 +0000, (David Horne)
wrote:

Martin wrote:

On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 21:58:19 +0000, (David Horne)
wrote:
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And there's OSX...

Anagram of SOX, innit?

Anagram of 'never bothered installing anti-viral software, never had one
yet' I think.

I had a problem with my office macbook a few weeks ago. The 'p' key
stopped working (and a few others it has to be said.) Problem was, my
password had a p in it.

Ronnie Barker joke warning?
--

Martin

Poor irwell, try again :
honni soit qui mal y pense.
Do you know what ypu're typing ?


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On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 18:36:26 -0600, Dan Stephenson wrote:


I do think it is interesting that the British motto is in a language
tracing back to the Norman invasion.

Honi soit qui maly y pense.

It's the Motto of the Garter, not modern French you twerp!
Poor irwell, try again :
honni soit qui mal y pense.
Do you know what ypu're typing ?


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On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 18:36:26 -0600, Dan Stephenson wrote:


I do think it is interesting that the British motto is in a language
tracing back to the Norman invasion.

Honi soit qui maly y pense.

7.12.2011 2349, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) kirjoitti:


Dan Stephenson wrote:
On 2011-12-04 19:27:45 -0600, Erilar said:

No one teaches regional accents, but many children come to school
with very
pronounced ones.

In all my European travels, the most difficult English for me to
understand was that spoken by the taxi driver taking me from Bath to
the Bristol airport. I think it is fascinating, how such a small
country can have such diverse and pronounced accents.

LOL! You remind me of my last trip to Brussels (which involved changing
planes at Heathrow, meaning a transfer between terminals). Since I have
difficulty walking the distances, I generally request a wheelchair. The
English of the porter operating it for me was pretty much
incomprehensible, leading me to ask where he was from. "London" was the
reply!

In late 1980's I was standing at a S-bahn station in a suburb of Munich.
An elderly couple met a younger couple and they had a small chat. Then
the old bloke (US American I assume) praised the fluent English of the
young lad and asked where he is from. He was from Boston.

Martin wrote:
On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 19:30:58 +0000 (UTC), Erilar
wrote:

Martin wrote:
On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 03:50:20 -0800 (PST), Surreyman
wrote:


I once had to, literally, 'translate', between my Managing Director
from Paisley, Scotland and Americans at a business meeting in
Pennsylvania.

I have twice translated between Frenchmen speaking reasonable English
and American traffic cops. One Florida traffic cop congratulated me on
my knowledge of French.
"Reasonable" English spoken by Frenchmen was probably still too French in
intonation for the Floridian.

The other time it happened was in California.

Same could apply.
--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad

David Horne wrote:
Martin wrote:

On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 21:58:19 +0000, (David Horne)
wrote:
[]
And there's OSX...

Anagram of SOX, innit?

Anagram of 'never bothered installing anti-viral software, never had one
yet' I think.

I had a problem with my office macbook a few weeks ago. The 'p' key
stopped working (and a few others it has to be said.) Problem was, my
password had a p in it.

Have you tried cleaning the keyboard?

--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad

David Horne wrote:
Martin wrote:

On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 21:58:19 +0000, (David Horne)
wrote:
[]
And there's OSX...

Anagram of SOX, innit?

Anagram of 'never bothered installing anti-viral software, never had one
yet' I think.

I had a problem with my office macbook a few weeks ago. The 'p' key
stopped working (and a few others it has to be said.) Problem was, my
password had a p in it.

Have you tried cleaning the keyboard?

--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad

Erilar wrote:

David Horne wrote:
Martin wrote:

On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 21:58:19 +0000, (David Horne)
wrote:
[]
And there's OSX...

Anagram of SOX, innit?

Anagram of 'never bothered installing anti-viral software, never had one
yet' I think.

I had a problem with my office macbook a few weeks ago. The 'p' key
stopped working (and a few others it has to be said.) Problem was, my
password had a p in it.

Have you tried cleaning the keyboard?

I think I spilled something on it. Actually, I know I did. The college
doesn't really support macs but they have consultants, so someone picked
it up from my office on the Thursday, slipped the hard drive into a
replacement (this only takes a minute) and I had my own back on Monday
with a new keyboard casing and bezel... I was impressed with the service
(though it would have been paid for...)

--
(*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate
www.davidhorne.net (email address on website)
"[Do you think the world learned anything from the first
world war?] No. They never learn." -Harry Patch (1898-2009)

On 2011-12-07 12:34:19 -0600, Wolfgang Schwanke said:

Dan Stephenson wrote in
news:2011120618332497938-stephedanospam@maccom:

I have heard of German being very different from one side of
the country to the other,

The most extreme dialects are Swiss German on one end of the scale, and
Low German - the dialect spoken on the North Sea/Baltic Sea coasts - on
the other end. They are absolutely incomprehensible to each other, but
both are considered dialects of German.

Do all the people know High German, to inter-communicate?

Still, given a national television presence, I would have thought that
would smooth out the language differences.
--
Dan Stephenson
http://web.mac.com/stepheda
Travel pages for Europe and the U.S.A. (and New Zealand too)