Windows Rant

[Knapp]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:54 AM, ruscook <ruscook_oz at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

>
>
> On 13/07/10 19:44, Amedee Van Gasse (ub) wrote:
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>> On Tue, July 13, 2010 01:32, Patton Echols wrote:
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>>> Res wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> <snipped many pages of irrelevance>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  language. In Dutch we have two words:
>>>>> "gezin" = the small family group that you live with in the same house
>>>>> "familie" = the group of all your relatives
>>>>>
>>>>> In English they both translate to 'family'. It seems that the English
>>>>>
>>>>> I think that this is the most important cause of the current confusion.
>>>>> What I intended to say was, quality time with my wife (=my family,
>>>>> "gezin" in Dutch) is more important than fixing the computer of the
>>>>> husband of my sister (= also family).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  "immediate family" (husband/wife/mother/father/brother/sister) is what
>>>> it's called here, some friends in England also refer to it as same.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Also known as "nuclear family".  As in the center of an atom . . . and
>>> with the same consequences when you try and split one!
>>>
>> Ay, there's the rub. In English you need an adjective to specify what you
>> mean. Ugh. Foreign languages give me headaches. Why can't we all speak
>> Mathematics? That's an universal language.
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>
I grew up in the USA and live in Germany. Have to say that that numbers like
20.000,00 drove me nuts for a while.

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