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Here's a guy who have come to us for help in English. The following appeared in an Adobe Photoshop newsgroup I read: could you point me a tutorial to make a sh.t with foldings like these examples? http://www.nohay-banda.it/public/fini.jpg The poster later returned and said that he meant "sheet".  SignatureTony Cooper Orlando, FL > Here's a guy who have come to us for help in English. The following > appeared in an Adobe Photoshop newsgroup I read: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > The poster later returned and said that he meant "sheet". Just as you will return to say you meant "should have". > Here's a guy who have come to us for help in English. The following > appeared in an Adobe Photoshop newsgroup I read: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > The poster later returned and said that he meant "sheet". I heard an interesting interview with an Irishman on the radio the other day. Apparently, there is a scheme to make money by exporting packets of Irish soil, to be sold to gu^W patriotic Hiberno-whatevers abroad. He said the first two containers of Irish dirt were already on their way to the USA and they were assembling a turd to send to Australia. -- Regards John for mail: my initials plus a u e at tpg dot com dot au > > Here's a guy who have come to us for help in English. The following > > appeared in an Adobe Photoshop newsgroup I read: [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > said the first two containers of Irish dirt were already on their way to > the USA and they were assembling a turd to send to Australia. Wasn't there a similar scheme for importing Chinese soil into the US, for burials in Chinese soil? Jan > Here's a guy who have come to us for help in English. The following > appeared in an Adobe Photoshop newsgroup I read: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > The poster later returned and said that he meant "sheet". I remember once hearing a puzzled foreigner (he looked and sounded Arabic) ask another "What's the difference between 'ship' the animal and 'ship' that you sail in?". Making a distinction between the vowels written in English as "i" and "ee" is relatively uncommon in the world's languages. It may surprise us, but to perhaps the majority of the world's population, "sh.t" and "sheet" are homophones. Matthew Huntbach > Making a distinction between the vowels written in English as "i" and > "ee" is relatively uncommon in the world's languages. It may surprise > us, but to perhaps the majority of the world's population, "sh.t" and > "sheet" are homophones. And to some oriental countries, "ace" and "a.s" are actually not much different. How do you enjoy watching a tennis game hearing the commentators call "a.s" all the way to the end! >And to some oriental countries, "ace" and "a.s" are actually not much >different. How do you enjoy watching a tennis game hearing the >commentators call "a.s" all the way to the end! In recent years UK sports commentators (snooker is where I've noticed it) seem to have invented the phrase "a big ask" which they use when someone has something vaguely difficult to do in exchange for an obscene amount of money. They always pronounce it with an exaggerated southern english 'a' and tend to elide the 'k', - leading me to think that they are saying "and this is a very big arse for Stephen Lee". Which, of course, it is. SignatureOn-line canal route planner: http://www.canalplan.org.uk (Waterways World site of the month, April 2001) My Reply-To address *is* valid, though likely to die soon >> Here's a guy who have come to us for help in English. The following >> appeared in an Adobe Photoshop newsgroup I read: [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > us, but to perhaps the majority of the world's population, "sh.t" and > "sheet" are homophones. I slit a sheet. A sheet I slit. And on the slitted sheet I sit. >I remember once hearing a puzzled foreigner (he looked and sounded >Arabic) ask another "What's the difference between 'ship' the animal >and 'ship' that you sail in?". A native Serbian speaker asked a couple of days ago "What is a small ship in English?" I said "boat", and the guy next to me said "lamb". SignatureSteve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk > Making a distinction between the vowels written in English as "i" and > "ee" is relatively uncommon in the world's languages. It may surprise > us, but to perhaps the majority of the world's population, "sh.t" and > "sheet" are homophones. As are, to many people, "crutch" and "crotch". SignaturePeter Moylan http://www.pmoylan.org Please note the changed e-mail and web addresses. The domain eepjm.newcastle.edu.au no longer exists, and I can no longer receive mail at my newcastle.edu.au addresses. The optusnet address could disappear at any time. > > Here's a guy who have come to us for help in English. The following > > appeared in an Adobe Photoshop newsgroup I read: [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Arabic) ask another "What's the difference between 'ship' the animal > and 'ship' that you sail in?". I find it strange that he would be an arab as arabic has a similar distinction between the two vowels. > Making a distinction between the vowels written in English as "i" and > "ee" is relatively uncommon in the world's languages. It may surprise > us, but to perhaps the majority of the world's population, "sh.t" and > "sheet" are homophones. > > Matthew Huntbach ><...> > Making a distinction between the vowels written in English as "i" and > "ee" is relatively uncommon in the world's languages. <...> We were introducing ourselves at the start of a class I had once, and a Hispanic man announced that he had spent the whole summer lying on the bitch. >Here's a guy who have come to us for help in English. The following >appeared in an Adobe Photoshop newsgroup I read: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >The poster later returned and said that he meant "sheet". He had apparently learned that paper could be supplied in sheets or pieces, so an Indian student at my university once asked one of the secretaries for a "piece of sheet", or so the story went. SignatureCharles Riggs |
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