On Tuesday 03 February 2009 14:06:40 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On 03/02/09 09:13, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Tuesday 03 February 2009 13:27:15 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> On 03/02/09 03:23, Anne Wilson wrote: > >>> It's the English users part of gmail - there > >>> is/was some legal wrangle that stopped them giving out gmail addresses > >>> too English users. > >>> > >> :g/English/s//British/g > > : > > :-) Probably so, but I don't claim to speak for Scots, Welsh and Gaelic- > > > > speakers :-) > > Nice try Anne, but no cigar. "English" in this context clearly refers to > the country, not the language. And of course the putative legal hiccup > with the Gmail name is extensive to all of the UK. > It was of course perfectly true for the country, though I accept the rest of your statement :-) > Don't sweat it. I constantly nag my English friends when they do this > (which they do all the time), just to see them look apologetic :-) > Hey, it didn't bother me. I simply hadn't thought whether it applied to the whole UK, but of course it was likely to. For the purpose of the explanation it didn't seem worth careful examination :-) I'm more careful when the statement could have some effect, but my ramblings..... :-) Anne -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20090203/35c445fe/attachment.bin
