Re: /S/ /Z/ /tS/ etc.


Ruud Harmsen wrote:
3 Sep 2006 06:41:27 -0700: "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
in sci.lang:

And where, praytell, would I "borrow a computer for a moment"?

From a colleague, at your employer's, you walk by and ask if you may

Colleague?

Ah, you cayght me, that's a Dutchism. Sorry. Fellow-worker?

? What's wrong with "colleague"? (Aside from the fact that there are
none in my house.)

"At" my employer's?

Prepositions are one of the most difficult words to get right. I'd use
'bij' in Dutch, but English 'by' doesn't seen right. "With"? Something
else? I really wouldn't know, genuinely interested.

You simply don't get it? I AM NOT AT MY EMPLOYER'S OFFICE. I AM AT
HOME.

How many times have I explained that my employer put a WinBox in my
home office so I could, as it were, telecommute?

I vaguely recall that, but you also have been using Macs. All of these
without a sound card, which seems strange in both cases. But it is
entirely possible.

I have no idea whether I do or do not have a sound card. When I enter
some websites, really annoying music plays. Both on the old Performa
(whose internal modem broke, which is why I'm stuck in google groups)
and on the hp Winbox.

That is quite different from not wanting to bother with your little
sound clips and not wanting to deal with formats, incompatibilities,
plug-ins, add-ons, and everything else involved.

listen to this sound for a second? Or a neighbour, maybe? A public
library with internet access? An internet café? (Cybercafé, if that's
what it's called).

This is not Europe, where the latter appears to be the preferred method
of accessing the internet.

Not anymore, because almost everybody has ADSL or cable at home.
Cybercafés I use only when on holiday. Once a week or something.
I suggested them because I expect them to have up-to-date hardware,
including (on-board of plug-in) soundcards. Motherboards without an
integrated sound card are hard to get by these days.

I wouldn't know.

The Burger King in a basement on Broadway just north of Wall Street
offers internet access with any purchase, but I wouldn't have any idea
how to get to where I might want to go.

.

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