From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 1 13:57: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sand.global.net.uk (sand.global.net.uk [195.147.248.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A4B415A16 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 13:56:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@globalnet.co.uk) Received: from pf9s08a07.client.global.net.uk ([195.147.232.250] helo=marder-1.) by sand.global.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 11MHQp-000805-00; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 21:56:35 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id VAA00472; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 21:48:57 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 21:48:56 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Jon Hamilton Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Greetings, Earthlings! Take me to your Jordan. (Re: Greetings from San Francisco Downtown) Message-ID: <19990901214856.C278@marder-1> References: <19990901183414.F283@marder-1> <19990901204944.B20A8A0@woodstock.monkey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990901204944.B20A8A0@woodstock.monkey.net>; from Jon Hamilton on Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 03:49:44PM -0500 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 03:49:44PM -0500, Jon Hamilton wrote: > > 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, When I visited the US (OK, it was 19 years ago) it always seemed to be called the first floor. > whereas the phrase ``knocked me up'' > has a completely different meaning here and may get you either blank > stares or gasps of astonishment :) > I presume you mean in the context of "...knocked on the door and woke me up". It also has another meaning, although the woman concerned would be unlikely to describe it that way. Of course the phrase "Can I bum a fag" *most definitely* has different meanings here and there ;-) > -- > Jon Hamilton > hamilton@pobox.com > > -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message