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

3 Sep 2006 14:11:29 -0700: "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
in sci.lang:

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.)

I thought you objected to my non-native use of the word. I read
objections from a Brit once, hence my misunderstanding.

"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.

So am I, and I don't have an employer.
You mentioned an employer once, so I thought maybe you sometimes
worked at their premises too. How was I to know? Now I do. No need for
shouting, just a slight misunderstanding.

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.

Nuff said.

When I enter some websites, really annoying music plays.

Right, so the only explanation is you don't have a sound card!

Both on the old Performa
(whose internal modem broke, which is why I'm stuck in google groups)

I don't understand the "which is why" part. Google group doesn't
require a modem, and a direct newsreader program does?

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.

Right. You choose to discuss things with people, then when they
present an argument or point of discussion in form of an actual sound
example or picture or document, you refuse to listen to it/look at it.
I suspected that much. It is a very fruitfull discussion technique,
especially when you already know you are right anyway.

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.

Click the provided link, may be? Just a thought.

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