On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 09:01 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Jan 4, 2008 8:39 AM, David Zeuthen <davidz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Sorry, I'm not from around here. And last time I played Monopoly, I > > guess some 15-20 years ago, the USD was actually twice as much to the > > DKK than it is today. > > Which makes the use of the phrase all that more interesting.. in a > very off-topic sort of way. Does US consumer culture have a > ...monopoly... on widely adopted popular culture? It makes me a > little sad to think that it might. I was hoping interacting with a > global community, even if we are doing it in Englishese, I'd get a > chance to vacuum up some useful, badly translated and out-of-context > colloquial phrases from other cultures. > > -jef"was really hoping the global internet community would develop a > pidgin language that looks more like Card's battle school pidgin and > less like aol-speak"spaleta you're gathering a jeesh even now, ne? :) -sv -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
