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  #81  
Old August 23rd 13, 03:41 AM posted to rec.photo.digital
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On 8/22/2013 10:21 AM, Tony Cooper wrote:
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:14:00 +0200, Sandman wrote:

In article ,
Whisky-dave wrote:

A while ago a Spanish girl asked me what's the differnce between "it's
********" and it's the "dogs ********" when english people say that.

Would you care to explain it ?


The origin of the expression is highly debated. I remember the Eddie
Izzard sketch when he makes fun of it

For me, I think it's a version of the expressions "cat's pajamas" and
"bee's knees", but there are many theories out there. Eric Partridge
thinks it comes from the typographic ":-" but that sounds a bit far
fetched to me.


Partridge did not say it came "from" the typographic [sic] colon-dash.
He said it was a printer's term *for* the typographical colon-dash.
It's a logical assumption given the visual form. "********" are
testicles, and the colon is the two testicles and the dash is the dog.
From the rear, that what we see.

Whether the expression originated with the printers, or if the
printers took up the expression to describe the colon-dash, is not
known.

What is interestng to me is that "the dog's ********" is an expression
that is used to describe something good, but the use of just
"********" is used to say "Untrue!", and even "Outrageously untrue!".

Jonas' comments about a misplaced grammatical error in Dave's
statement is ********.

Also interesting to me is that we say "It's the dog's ********" to
mean "It's a good thing", but we say "It's a dog's breakfast" to mean
it's a mess, or complete rubbish. Testicles are good, but food is
bad. Of course, dogs will eat some strange things.

It's gets more interesting when we find that "a dog's dinner", unlike
the breakfast, is a good thing like the dog's ********.

Jonas, who will allegedly not read this, would probably not accept the
difference between "from" and "for" in this context given his past
demonstrations of denial of mistakes, but it needs be said.

The advantage of Jonas' killfile is that he can continue in ignorance,
but the disadvantage is that he will continue in ignorance.


Auto-imposto ignoranza = arroganza


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  #82  
Old August 23rd 13, 06:10 AM posted to rec.photo.digital
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In article ,
sid wrote:

you moron


Anyway, Sid, how's the weather in Wales?


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  #83  
Old August 28th 13, 02:45 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
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In article ,
Whisky-dave wrote:

So it was a spelling mistake, so you didn;t know how to spell me.


Is that a serious question, Dave?


if you spell "me" wrong ... I've never spelt "the" wrong but I often hit the
keys in the wrong order resulting in "teh" rarely if ever "het" or "eht"
I call those errors typos some may think it's due to gravity, but not me.


I spelled "me" wrong in the same way you spell "the" wrong.

I thopught it was a typo


Uh, "typo" (short for "typographical error") and spelling mistake is the
same thing. Not sure what point you're trying to get across here.


Well it isn't for me.


Actually, no. Definitions of words apply to us all.

or some call these brain farts which is where one
word comes into your head but another gets written.


Sure, but that wasn't it, here.


Well I've no way on knowing


Other than, of course, the fact that I've explicitly told you.


I made a spelling mistake (i.e. I spelled "me" as "my"),

as I said I though that was a typo but if it's a spelling mistake fair
enough.


It's the same thing.


Not for you perhaps but for most people I think it is a differnt thing.
Did you need to look up the spelling of me in a dictionary after I informed
you of your possible error ?


Huh? Do you even know yourself what you're typing right now?

Sorry, I can't understand much of what you wrote above. I mean, I can
probably understand what words you were supposed to write, but not what
you mean by it.


A 'joke' heard for the 1000th time is rarely funny again.

A coloured friend of mine used to be called chalkie, but after a few years he
didn't find it funny.


I like cars.

I know what the intention was, but it just got a bit tiresome after teh
4th or so time


That would be quite the feat since I had said it exactly *once* before
this thread.


I have the ability to remmeber this outisde of this thread.


Huh? I had called you drunk *ONCE* *BEFORE* this thread. I.e. outside
this thread. You said it got tiresome after the fourth time. So who said
it the other three times? I had only said it once.

It was fun the first time but it's happened 100s of times over the years.


Not by me. Surely you're not holding me responsible for people calling
you Drunk Dave hundreds of times over the years?


I wouldn't hold you responsible for anything.


So, have you abandoned the idea of you being called Drunk Dave hundreds
of times already? That was short.

and obviously you took offense with this. That wasn't my
intention, so I apologize, again.


Again I wasn;t offended as such just found it rather pathetic after you'd
been told.


When was I told?


Whenever you've said I was drunk.


No I wasn't. Please quote you (or anyone) telling me anything about
this. Failure to do so means you're lying here.

No, sorry, they're not typo's. I don't care about typo's, I
make lots of them myself. Often, you miss punctuation and you
insert weird characters like semi colons and such here and
there.


Think that's the keyboard I tend to hit the wrong key.


So learn how the keyboard works, THEN type on it.


Learn how to spell "me" it's not that difficult is it.


At least I'm not blaming the keyboard. And it's still ironic to have you
point out spelling errors.



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  #84  
Old August 28th 13, 03:11 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
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Sandman wrote:
Blog post:
http://jonaseklundh.se/pages/Nora12?lang=en


My and my family went to the small town of Nora, Sweden to go on a
real steam train. Very beautiful!


Hi Jonas,

Thanks for the nice pictures. I especially enjoyed the trains, as they
reminded me of my youth, when I actually rode in steam powered trains,
both in the USA and in Europe.

You will get many critiques about your pictures on line; some of them
are genuine and nice, while some of them are unfair to say the least. It
is hardly polite or fair to criticize a Swedish person's command of
English; how many of us speak any Swedish? (I know only Svenska flicka e
vakra.)

Keep up the good work, and keep up your nice picture posts.

Regards,

Mort Linder
USA

Machinery
http://jonaseklundh.se/aimg201279.jpg
NIKON D3S, 50.0 mm, f/1.4, 1/1000 sec., ISO 200




Steam
http://jonaseklundh.se/aimg201280.jpg
NIKON D3S, 50.0 mm, f/1.4, 1/6400 sec., ISO 200




Old timer
http://jonaseklundh.se/aimg201281.jpg
NIKON D3S, 28.0 mm, f/2.5, 1/1000 sec., ISO 320




Fountain
http://jonaseklundh.se/aimg201282.jpg
NIKON D3S, 120.0 mm, f/4.0, 1/1600 sec., ISO 320




Water drops
http://jonaseklundh.se/aimg201283.jpg
NIKON D3S, 120.0 mm, f/4.0, 1/8000 sec., ISO 1000








  #85  
Old August 28th 13, 03:19 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
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In article , Mort
wrote:

Blog post:
http://jonaseklundh.se/pages/Nora12?lang=en


My and my family went to the small town of Nora, Sweden to go on a
real steam train. Very beautiful!


Hi Jonas,

Thanks for the nice pictures. I especially enjoyed the trains, as they
reminded me of my youth, when I actually rode in steam powered trains,
both in the USA and in Europe.


Thank you

You will get many critiques about your pictures on line; some of them
are genuine and nice, while some of them are unfair to say the least. It
is hardly polite or fair to criticize a Swedish person's command of
English; how many of us speak any Swedish? (I know only Svenska flicka e
vakra.)


Well, the people that give me grief for misspelling a words are usually
those I have corrected in the past. Not with spelling, mind you, but the
usage of words where they've used a word in a "funny" way.

It's ok, I can take it. I don't have any pride invested in my spelling
and grammar and I know I make lots of mistakes (even when writing in
Swedish!)

Cheers!





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  #86  
Old August 28th 13, 10:54 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
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On 8/28/2013 10:11 AM, Mort wrote:

snip



You will get many critiques about your pictures on line; some of them
are genuine and nice, while some of them are unfair to say the least. It
is hardly polite or fair to criticize a Swedish person's command of
English; how many of us speak any Swedish? (I know only Svenska flicka e
vakra.)


It is not unfair when the Swedish person starts criticizing usage of
American English, especially the spelling of artificial words. Please
don't start that one again.





Keep up the good work, and keep up your nice picture posts.


I hope he does.



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  #87  
Old August 29th 13, 09:00 AM posted to rec.photo.digital
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In article ,
PeterN wrote:

You will get many critiques about your pictures on line; some of them
are genuine and nice, while some of them are unfair to say the least. It
is hardly polite or fair to criticize a Swedish person's command of
English; how many of us speak any Swedish? (I know only Svenska flicka e
vakra.)


It is not unfair when the Swedish person starts criticizing usage of
American English, especially the spelling of artificial words. Please
don't start that one again.


Peter, please, when did I *criticize* the *spelling* of "artificial
words"? I expect a link to this critique in your followup or admission
of making an incorrect claim. Failing both makes you a liar, just so you
know.

YOU are the one starting it again, Peter, when you make such ludicrous
claims.


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  #88  
Old August 29th 13, 01:08 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
PeterN[_4_]
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On 8/29/2013 4:00 AM, Sandman wrote:
In article ,
PeterN wrote:

You will get many critiques about your pictures on line; some of them
are genuine and nice, while some of them are unfair to say the least. It
is hardly polite or fair to criticize a Swedish person's command of
English; how many of us speak any Swedish? (I know only Svenska flicka e
vakra.)


It is not unfair when the Swedish person starts criticizing usage of
American English, especially the spelling of artificial words. Please
don't start that one again.


Peter, please, when did I *criticize* the *spelling* of "artificial
words"? I expect a link to this critique in your followup or admission
of making an incorrect claim. Failing both makes you a liar, just so you
know.


furgedaboudit.
I am too lazy to find the ink, where you "corrected" my spelling.

YOU are the one starting it again, Peter, when you make such ludicrous
claims.




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  #89  
Old August 29th 13, 01:50 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
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In article ,
PeterN wrote:

It is not unfair when the Swedish person starts criticizing usage of
American English, especially the spelling of artificial words. Please
don't start that one again.


Peter, please, when did I *criticize* the *spelling* of "artificial
words"? I expect a link to this critique in your followup or admission
of making an incorrect claim. Failing both makes you a liar, just so you
know.


furgedaboudit.
I am too lazy to find the ink, where you "corrected" my spelling.


So you admit to having made an incorrect claim then. Good.



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  #90  
Old August 29th 13, 01:54 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
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On 8/29/2013 8:50 AM, Sandman wrote:
In article ,
PeterN wrote:

It is not unfair when the Swedish person starts criticizing usage of
American English, especially the spelling of artificial words. Please
don't start that one again.

Peter, please, when did I *criticize* the *spelling* of "artificial
words"? I expect a link to this critique in your followup or admission
of making an incorrect claim. Failing both makes you a liar, just so you
know.


furgedaboudit.
I am too lazy to find the ink, where you "corrected" my spelling.


So you admit to having made an incorrect claim then. Good.


That is not a factual statement. You are too bright to have forgotten
your posting. As I said, it is not worth my tim to go back,mor reply
further to your provocations



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