[ubuntu-uk] 11.04 Natty Narwhal

Matthew Bassett hewbass at gmail.com
Wed Aug 18 17:01:27 BST 2010


Also the dangers of trying to reply via a mobile phone that does not
do proper quoting:

On 18 August 2010 16:55, Matthew Bassett <hewbass at gmail.com> wrote:
> The dangers of using a US based dictionary / thesaurus on a UK based list:
>
>> From WordNet (r) 2.0 :
>>
>>   feisty
>>        adj 1: showing courage; "the champion is faced with a feisty
>>               challenger" [syn: plucky, spunky]
>
> Imbued with involuntary night time emissions?eference in popular culture.
>
>>> Enough ranting. I'll leave you with this:
>>>
>>> From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
>>>  narwhal
>>>    it is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish,
>>>       and unicorn whale.
>>
>> You're just having a bit of a rant, aren't you?
>>
>
> YES! OH GOD YES! Did the bit where I said "enough ranting" give you a clue?
>

Doh!

And apologies for any confusion about attribution.



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