David Richerby wrote:
Nick wrote:
David Richerby wrote:
Let's stop playing silly buggers, everyone.

Dave, need I remind you that if everyone 'stop(ped) playing silly buggers'
in writing here, then the chess newsgroups should become much abridged? :-)

You seem to be suggesting that this would be a bad thing.

Not at all, of course, it would be a *good thing* if everyone 'stop(ped)
playing silly buggers' (apart from at the chessboard) and if 'the chess
newsgroups (did) become much abridged' by removing the usual trolling.

Given that the chess newsgroups evidently have no shortage of nearly illiterate
readers, pathological liars, and inveterate trolls whose main interest in
writing seems to be making abusive personal attacks against other persons,
I cannot help but think that your advice, like others' advice before you, to
everyone will be unheeded by the writers here who should need it the most.

--Nick

Silly buggers--you say---Is there such a game? If so, what is it like?
I think it should be written without the apostrophy.



Not at all, of course, it would be a *good thing* if everyone 'stop(ped)
playing silly buggers' (apart from at the chessboard) and if 'the chess
newsgroups (did) become much abridged' by removing the usual trolling.

Given that the chess newsgroups evidently have no shortage of nearly
illiterate
readers, pathological liars, and inveterate trolls whose main interest in
writing seems to be making abusive personal attacks against other persons,
I cannot help but think that your advice, like others' advice before you, to
everyone will be unheeded by the writers here who should need it the most.

--Nick

PJDBAD wrote:
Nick wrote:
Not at all, of course, it would be a *good thing* if everyone 'stop(ped)
playing silly buggers'

Silly buggers--you say---Is there such a game? If so, what is it like?
I think it should be written without the apostrophy.

It's not an apostrophe: it's a closing quotation mark. Unfortunately,
most computer character sets have only one code point that has to suffice
for both of these characters.


Dave.

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David Richerby Natural Gnome (TM): it's like a
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~davidr/ smiling garden ornament but it's
completely natural!

It's not an apostrophe: it's a closing quotation mark. Unfortunately,
most computer character sets have only one code point that has to suffice
for both of these characters.


You know what? that actually makes sense. Single and double quotation marks are
supposed to be directed to enclose the quote. Knew that, but never thought
much about it before.

It is "tempest in a tea cup." In Britain and America, the point is that it is
supposed to sound over stated, over blown, and affected for maxium effect. It
is making a mountain out of a mole hill. Isn't that the American.

Like (as), a badger is a mole from Texas.

Of course, understatement is good also. In the car accident, my mom (mum)
died, I suffered a broken leg, a black eye, and a hang nail.

Why do the British call their Moms "mum" when most mothers are just not that
quiet.

(PJDBAD) wrote in message
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(snipped)
Why do the British call their Moms "mum" when most mothers are just not that
quiet.

Is American 'football' played primarily with the feet? :-)

"Some years ago I spent a lot of time with a young lady who was very proud
and conscious of being English. Once she asked--to my great surprise--whether
I would marry her. 'No', I replied, 'I will not. My mother would never agree
to my marrying a foreigner.' She looked at me a little surprised and irritated,
and retorted: 'I, a foreigner? What a silly thing to say. I am English. You
are the foreigner. And your mother, too.' I did not give in. 'In Budapest,
too?' I asked her. 'Everywhere', she declared with determination. 'Truth does
not depend on geography. What is true in England is also true in Hungary...'
I saw that this theory was as irrefutable as it was simple."
--George Mikes (How to be an Alien)

--Nick

..

"Some years ago I spent a lot of time with a young lady who was very proud
and conscious of being English. Once she asked--to my great
surprise--whether
I would marry her. 'No', I replied, 'I will not. My mother would never
agree
to my marrying a foreigner.' She looked at me a little surprised and
irritated,
and retorted: 'I, a foreigner? What a silly thing to say. I am English.
You
are the foreigner. And your mother, too.' I did not give in. 'In Budapest,
too?' I asked her. 'Everywhere', she declared with determination. 'Truth
does
not depend on geography. What is true in England is also true in Hungary...'
I saw that this theory was as irrefutable as it was simple."
--George Mikes (How to be an Alien)

--Nick


You met the wrong English people. There is quite another group that thinks
everyone else is a "native." English are never "natives" even in england.