OT: en_?? [was Re: [Gllug] Proposal for next GLLUG meeting]

[Pete Ryland]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 04:06:03 -0000, Richard Cottrill wrote:
> There's also the ever-popular confusion over 'router', 'pants', and 'mad'
> (to name but a few examples). Hilarity ensues.

Indeed. :)

Actually [i.e. I digress even more, delete at will], the funniest language
thing I've ever come across I reckon was in an exchange in Brazil, talking
to one of the local sparkies about the equipment.  I was (in broken pt)
trying to explain something involving the 2Mb connection between the
[Alcatel 1530 EU] unit in front of us and the main exchange upstairs.  He
worked out what I meant by "dois mega-bit" which happens to be pronounced in
pt "dois mega-bitch" (not one, but two mega-bitch!) which had me on the
floor.  After I explained the significance in en, 2Mb was henceforth
pronounced "dois mega-buta" at that exchange :)

That OT still in the subject line?  yep, ok, good.

Pete

PS Hmm... All this talk of the dispersion of languages reminds me of Neal
Stephenson's /Snow Crash/...

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