Posted by Noddy on July 20, 2009, 11:44 am
> It makes sense when they call it gasoline but it doesn't make sense when
> its abbreviated to "gas".
Everyone over there calls is "gas", and you're right, it makes no sense.
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Posted by Barry OGrady on August 15, 2009, 6:42 am
>Noddy wrote:
>>
>>> In the American dialect "petrol" is short for "petroleum." Since you know
>>> nothing of our society, I can understand your confusion.
>>
>> Hmm...
>>
>> I've been to the US twice. Once because I actually wanted to go, and once
>> because I didn't but had to. Both trips were centred around car stuff. Both
>> times I met some interesting people and saw some interesting sights, but I
>> never once heard anyone mention petrol at all. In fact, when I mentioned it
>> on occasion it was met with curiosity by some as they had no idea what I was
>> talking about. I had to resort to the American term of "gas" so people could
>> understand what I was talking about.
>>
>> Diesel was "diesel", wherever you went.
>>
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>> Regards,
>> Noddy.
>>
>>
>The yanks refer to Petrol as gasoline
Only in America!
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Posted by Knobdoodle on July 19, 2009, 1:28 pm
>> Thanks for that, but what part of that interesting article had anything
>> to do with *petrol*?
>>
> In the American dialect "petrol" is short for "petroleum." Since you know
> nothing of our society, I can understand your confusion.
So you call Diesel petrol and you call petrol gas?
Any other basic concepts you get so screwed up?
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Posted by Noddy on July 19, 2009, 1:36 pm
> So you call Diesel petrol and you call petrol gas?
> Any other basic concepts you get so screwed up?
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> Knob
> (apart from "freedom" of course)
How about justice, as in the kind of "putting people in prison for years
until you can think of something to charge them with" type of justice?
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Posted by Toby Ponsenby on July 20, 2009, 9:23 am
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:36:18 +1000, Struggling with , Noddy blathered on
with:
>> So you call Diesel petrol and you call petrol gas?
>> Any other basic concepts you get so screwed up?
>> --
>> Knob
>> (apart from "freedom" of course)
> How about justice, as in the kind of "putting people in prison for years
> until you can think of something to charge them with" type of justice?
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> Regards,
> Noddy.
Huh? you reckon then Septics should torture their bought and paid for
prisoners out in the streets?
Shame Shame Shame...:-)
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> its abbreviated to "gas".