From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 1 13:49:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw01.execpc.com (mailgw01.execpc.com [169.207.2.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 261AA15B22 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 13:49:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamilton@pobox.com) Received: from woodstock.monkey.net (planetx-1-175.mdm.mkt.execpc.com [169.207.142.177]) by mailgw01.execpc.com (8.9.1) id PAA19314; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:49:29 -0500 Received: from pobox.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodstock.monkey.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B20A8A0; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:49:44 -0500 (CDT) To: Mark Ovens Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Greetings, Earthlings! Take me to your Jordan. (Re: Greetings from San Francisco Downtown) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Sep 1999 18:34:14 BST." <19990901183414.F283@marder-1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 15:49:44 -0500 From: Jon Hamilton Message-Id: <19990901204944.B20A8A0@woodstock.monkey.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <19990901183414.F283@marder-1>, Mark Ovens wrote: } Greetings from the ground (US:first) floor of my house in Chippenham, England ``Ground floor'' is also in common use in the US. Saying ``ground floor'' will confuse very few people here, whereas the phrase ``knocked me up'' has a completely different meaning here and may get you either blank stares or gasps of astonishment :) -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message