Posted by Noddy on July 20, 2009, 11:46 am
> Huh? you reckon then Septics should torture their bought and paid for
> prisoners out in the streets?
> Shame Shame Shame...:-)
It'd make for better TV....
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Regards,
Noddy.
Posted by Barry OGrady on July 20, 2009, 12:10 am
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:28:35 GMT, "Knobdoodle"
>>> 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?
What do they call gas?
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>Knob
Posted by Was Istoben on July 20, 2009, 1:59 am
>>So you call Diesel petrol and you call petrol gas?
>>Any other basic concepts you get so screwed up?
> What do they call gas?
Flatulence.
Posted by Was Istoben on July 20, 2009, 1:40 am
>>> 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?
> --
> Knob
> (apart from "freedom" of course)
We have unique names for each petroleum distillate. In some cased the names
we use are different from the names you use. Only a buffoon would find this
strange given our planet's numerous languages and dialects.
Posted by the_dawggie on July 20, 2009, 4:41 am
> >> 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?
They walk about with donkeys attached so they don't
actually need to walk was my understanding. Their
donkeys must come free with a fast food supersize
option :-p
Seriously though some USA terms are more meaningful than
ours/English , and I use what has clearest meaning.
Gas and ass ain't two of them as is their incorrect
non-descriptive overuse of "the"
Doesn't petrol go to a more a vapour stage? gasoline
seems a bit suspect too.
On "the" ... and it's creeping into .AU too:
"Go visit the library ..." Huh? which library?
"Go visit a library ..." or "go visit the {insert name of} library"
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Kip.
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> prisoners out in the streets?
> Shame Shame Shame...:-)