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From: Joachim Pense on 31 Dec 2009 10:19 jmfbahciv (in sci.lang): > Brian M. Scott wrote: >> On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:45:53 +0100, Athel Cornish-Bowden >> <acornish(a)ibsm.cnrs-mrs.fr> wrote in >> <news:7pv4jhFk1U1(a)mid.individual.net> in >> sci.math,sci.physics,sci.lang,alt.usage.english,alt.philosophy: >> >>> On 2009-12-29 19:28:36 +0100, Ruud Harmsen <rh(a)rudhar.eu> said: >> >> [...] >> >>>> sheath sheathe >> >>> Likewise. I don't think I've ever heard "wreathed" in >>> uninflected form. >> >> I've *used* <sheathe> (which I suspect is what you meant). >> So have a lot of re-enactors. >> >>>> mouth (noun) mouth (verb) >> >>> OK >> >>>> thou (short for 1000) thou (pronoun) >> >>> The first is engineers' slang; >> >> Also used of money. >> >>> the latter is archaic (other than in church) >> >> [...] > > I don't think I've heard engineers use thou for their slang > other than money (which other people use). Our slang for > thou was K. > Abbreviating "thousand" as "thou" doesn't look very engeneerish to me. (Except in Japanese, where this would even be a typical formation). Joachim
From: Peter T. Daniels on 31 Dec 2009 10:53 On Dec 31, 9:50 am, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv(a)aol> wrote: > I see I've been wasting my time. If you're referring to your pontifications on matters you know nothing about, namely linguistics, then you may be right.
From: Brian Chandler on 31 Dec 2009 11:12 Joachim Pense wrote: > jmfbahciv (in sci.lang): > > > I don't think I've heard engineers use thou for their slang > > other than money (which other people use). Our slang for > > thou was K. > > > > Abbreviating "thousand" as "thou" doesn't look very engeneerish to me. I remember hearing my father, who was a toolmaker by trade, using "thou" to mean *one thousandth of an inch*. I think that's what the original reference was to. > (Except in Japanese, where this would even be a typical formation). Yes (chopping half the word off), although it isn't (a Japanese abbreviation for thousand)... Brian Chandler
From: Robert Bannister on 31 Dec 2009 18:34 jmfbahciv wrote: > <grin> I was extremely surprised by the number of people > who didn't know Roman numerals. Isn't that why Hollywood adopted them so that people wouldn't realise just how old the films were? -- Rob Bannister
From: jmfbahciv on 1 Jan 2010 09:30
Joachim Pense wrote: > jmfbahciv (in sci.lang): > >> António Marques wrote: >>> jmfbahciv wrote (29-12-2009 13:39): > ... >>>> I've been using Seamonkey which is web-based. >>> Uh? >> You wrote that you don't know of any other web interface newsgroup >> software.... I thought i would point you to one that isn't >> as painful as Google's. >> > > But the fact that Seamonkey has a web-browser functionality doesn't make > it's news-reader functionality web-based, does it? > It uses the web to get at newsgroups (which I think is a waste of CPU cycles...but that's another thread). Code, such as trn, doesn't use all that internet protocol to prompt an ISP's newsserver to dump posts on your system. /BAH |