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Discussion Groups / English Usage / February 2010Sorry about preceding post
I'm very sorry for inflicting a private mail on the newsgroup. I cancelled it as soon as I realized my mistake, but I'm afraid GoogleGroups doesn't hour cancel messages.  SignatureIsabelle Cecchini Isabelle Cecchini a écrit : Dammit Honour, not hour SignatureIsabelle Cecchini Isabelle Cecchini set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time continuum: > Isabelle Cecchini a écrit : > > Dammit > > Honour, not hour Don't worry about such a minute error. Signatureξ:) Proud to be curly Interchange the alphabetic letter groups to reply > Isabelle Cecchini set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time > continuum: [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Don't worry about such a minute error. I'll second that, Jan > > Dammit > > Honour, not hour > Don't worry about such a minute error. Even if it was the second one? SignatureMark Brader | "One reason that life is complex is that it has Toronto | a real part and an imaginary part." msb@vex.net | --Andrew Koenig >> > Dammit >> > Honour, not hour > >> Don't worry about such a minute error. > >Even if it was the second one? He's winding up the watch of his wit By and by it will strike (The Tempest). SignatureSteve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk Isabelle Cecchini wrote, in <hlgg9e$38f$1@news.eternal-september.org> on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:26:45 +0100: > I'm very sorry for inflicting a private mail on the newsgroup. I > cancelled it as soon as I realized my mistake, but I'm afraid > GoogleGroups doesn't hour cancel messages. Something killed it here. The overview came through but the body came up as "no longer available". SignatureNick Spalding BrE/IrE >Isabelle Cecchini wrote, in <hlgg9e$38f$1@news.eternal-september.org> > on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:26:45 +0100: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >Something killed it here. The overview came through but the body came >up as "no longer available". That sounds as though the cancel was received and implemented by your usenet server between your downloading the message header and attempting to download the body. SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) Peter Duncanson (BrE) wrote, in <9pknn513k40f3j1kj3i88g1tc8ur70qnl6@4ax.com> on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:31:21 +0000: > >Isabelle Cecchini wrote, in <hlgg9e$38f$1@news.eternal-september.org> > > on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:26:45 +0100: [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > usenet server between your downloading the message header and attempting > to download the body. Probably. My primary server is news.individual.net which does honour cancels. SignatureNick Spalding BrE/IrE Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:48:33 +0000 from Nick Spalding <spalding@iol.ie>: > Peter Duncanson (BrE) wrote, in > <9pknn513k40f3j1kj3i88g1tc8ur70qnl6@4ax.com> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Probably. My primary server is news.individual.net which does honour > cancels. I use n.i.n too. For me, it honors a cancel if I issue it *immediately* after posting, not otherwise. SignatureStan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... >Peter Duncanson (BrE) wrote, in ><9pknn513k40f3j1kj3i88g1tc8ur70qnl6@4ax.com> [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >Probably. My primary server is news.individual.net which does honour >cancels. I use that server and did not see any part of Isabelle's message. I must have downloaded new messages after it had been cancelled. SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) Peter Duncanson (BrE) wrote, in <64nnn55f9ssq4ufut6hq4idfdir2f64bkh@4ax.com> on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:11:48 +0000: > >Peter Duncanson (BrE) wrote, in > ><9pknn513k40f3j1kj3i88g1tc8ur70qnl6@4ax.com> [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > I use that server and did not see any part of Isabelle's message. > I must have downloaded new messages after it had been cancelled. SignatureNick Spalding BrE/IrE > I'm very sorry for inflicting a private mail on the newsgroup. I > cancelled it as soon as I realized my mistake, but I'm afraid > GoogleGroups doesn't hour cancel messages. It works for me, so Free does indeed cancel rapidly, Jan Isabelle Cecchini: > I'm very sorry for inflicting a private mail on the newsgroup. > I cancelled it as soon as I realized my mistake, but ... I'm sorry to hear about Huguette's medical problem. I hope she has a good recovery. It's not English, but I'm curious about a couple of usages. "Elle est arrêtée", you wrote, "pour deux semaines." Well, I know she wasn't *arrested* for two weeks, but in English we don't say that someone is "stopped for two weeks" by illness either. Does this mean she *has been off work* for two weeks (before today), or what? I was also struck by "J'en ai ras-le-bol". You have shave-the-bowl of it? Is that like being "sick and tired" of something? SignatureMark Brader, Toronto | Any company large enough to have a research lab msb@vex.net | is large enough not to listen to it. --Alan Kay My text in this article is in the public domain. Mark Brader a écrit : [...] > It's not English, but I'm curious about a couple of usages. "Elle > est arrêtée", you wrote, "pour deux semaines." Well, I know she > wasn't *arrested* for two weeks, but in English we don't say that > someone is "stopped for two weeks" by illness either. Does this > mean she *has been off work* for two weeks (before today), or what? It's about the future: she'll be off work for two weeks, on doctor's orders. > I was also struck by "J'en ai ras-le-bol". You have shave-the-bowl > of it? Is that like being "sick and tired" of something? Exactly. SignatureIsabelle Cecchini Mark Brader: >> It's not English, but I'm curious about a couple of usages... Merci, á Isabelle et aux autres qui ont répondu. SignatureMark Brader, Toronto "... pure English is de rigueur" msb@vex.net -- Guardian Weekly > Mark Brader: >> It's not English, but I'm curious about a couple of usages... > > Merci, á Isabelle et aux autres qui ont répondu. That's real good French! -- ~~~ Reinhold {Rey} Aman ~~~ My text in this article is in the pubic domain. > Isabelle Cecchini: >> I'm very sorry for inflicting a private mail on the newsgroup. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > I was also struck by "J'en ai ras-le-bol". You have shave-the-bowl > of it? Is that like being "sick and tired" of something? "ras-le-bol" has been around for ages. Think of "I'm up to here with it". SignatureRob Bannister ... > I was also struck by "J'en ai ras-le-bol". You have shave-the-bowl > of it? If you're going to be literal, it's "I have shave-the-bowl of it of it." > Is that like being "sick and tired" of something? ... You've gotten answers, but wordreference.com says "browned off". -- Jerry Friedman |
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