On Friday 07 April 2006 20:56, Hal MacArgle wrote: > Greetings and I apologize profusely for the American slang.. > Maybe it's my way to prove I'm not getting senile.. When my > grandchildren and great-grandchildren talk to me I don't understand > 90% of what they say.. <grin> Well, I am very surprised, you seem to be of my generation. I thought, you were in the age of twenty and this would explain some things. I share your problems with my grandchildren people ;-) > My relatives in the UK and > Scotland ....and some friends in old Germany .... > say that Americans haven't spoken Englisch for years... Nice you took my comments with so much humor. I must apologize, as it was very late, I was very tired, and well..., > You are from DE land so I must mention that five of my > neighbours emigrated from there many years ago.. Our little > "community" is called Birchesgarten.. Rename to "Biergarten" or "Weingarten" and I will visit you very soon ! I could even think on emigrating too ;-) Regards, Edgar -- --------------------- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers Weinheim - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs