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List:       newtontalk
Subject:    Re: [NTLK] AA battery trays
From:       Forrest <newton_phoenix () mindspring ! com>
Date:       2018-02-03 18:48:22
Message-ID: 49E3F002-ABE9-47E4-B8F8-8BF2D77FCBA0 () mindspring ! com
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Sorry—and I certainly understand your frustration with language, expressed my own \
here many times—but for me it's just as easy to simply...do a quick Google search. \
(But not "Google it." ARRRRGGGHHH I HATE THAT. Nouns used as verbs.)

Mahalo,
Forrest

Sent from my T-Mobile iPhone 6S Plus

> On Feb 1, 2018, at 6:45 PM, William James <whjames67@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Ahhhhh Dennis, the  answer is, all of the above! But shouldn't we have a base? I'm \
> all for English, German, Russian, French, etc......, just give me a base that \
> everyone can understand. Give me a base where all the acronyms or initializations, \
> do not exist and we can all communicate on the same level. Sadly, people take it \
> for granted that people have communicated by acronyms for years, that is not the \
> case. They have come about in the last fifteen years. Yes there were acronyms \
> before, but (most people)  only communicated by these  in limited military circles \
> or niche online communities. 
> 
> From: Dennis Swaney <romad@mac.com>
> To: newtontalk@newtontalk.net 
> Sent: Thursday, February 1, 2018 12:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] AA battery trays
> 
> Ah, but then the next question becomes WHICH version of English? Limiting
> the list to the MAJOR versions in alphabetical order: American (U.S.)?
> Australian? British? Canadian? New Zealand? And that doesn't even take into
> account the most prevalent word here is not English but Canadian French:
> POUTINE!  ;-)
> 
> Sincerely,
> Dennis B. Swaney
> 
> "I think, therefore I Mac"
> 
> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 10:18 AM, "Piotrowski Paweł (Newton)" <
> newton@indigi.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > On 1 Feb 2018, at 01:42, William James <whjames67@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > What is ICYMI? Why can't people responding, just use English? Of course
> > I realize using English poses a problem to the Newton fans who speak Greek
> > or another language, but at the same time, why the silly acronyms? We are
> > losing the ability to communicate by adapting every "Silly ass FAD" that
> > comes down the line! Have I really been subscribing to a group of people
> > who are nothing but teenage girls punching out messages about their
> > terrible salad on yelp?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I would expect the cursing and bickering from the Mac community ( the
> > mainly child driven 68k MLA, although there are genesis there ), but not
> > from the Newtons? There are some great people on the 68k  mla, but they are
> > few and far between! Newtons have always been pretty much in the grounded
> > universe!
> > > Can we get a consensus here?
> > 
> > English is not my first language and I'm not fluent (I do not have
> > language skills). I'm doing my best with language. I'm also happy when
> > someone correct me if I do some mistakes. I like to learn :)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Pawel Piotrowski
> > 
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