Windows Rant

[Nathan Bahn]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 5:44 AM, Amedee Van Gasse (ub) <
amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:

> On Tue, July 13, 2010 01:32, Patton Echols wrote:
> > 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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> Amedee
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A.V.G.--
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Esperanto<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto>
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