From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V4 #234 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Sunday, November 21 1999 Volume 04 : Number 234 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Joe ["Jeff Abrams" ] Re: Getting off the list ["Brian Cundieff" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 01:42:44 -0500 From: "Jeff Abrams" Subject: Re: Joe LOL is "laughing out loud". - -- Jeff Abrams doctorpc@erols.com 1993 Brilliant Black 2.5 MX-3 GSR "There is nothing miraculous about it. I simply press the right notes at the right time and the music plays itself." - -Johann Sebastian Bach - ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob & Janine Hester To: Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 5:44 PM Subject: Re: Joe > > *L* = Laughing > *LOL*=Lots of Laughing > *ROTFLMAO* = Rolling on the floor laughing my a** off > *smile* > *grin* > *snicker* etc... > > That's all, just expressions for messages to convey emotions. > > Cha, Cha, Cha... Bob > ___________________________ > > Jim Clary wrote: > > > > Awwwww, Joe, > > > > > > We are just playing with you. I'm not offended. I just wanted to let you > > > know, I'm a Postal Worker! *L* > > > > > > Bob > > > > Say Bob -- Thanks for being a part of the most efficient mail delivery > > service in the world: the US Mail, which also has the lowest delivery prices > > of any industrialized nation. > > > > Just one question --- What does *L* mean?? > > > > Jim Clary > > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 19:33:17 +0900 From: "Brian Cundieff" Subject: Re: Getting off the list From: Joe Palcher Date: Friday, November 19, 1999 12:33 PM Subject: Re: Getting off the list >I wasn't trying to make a stereotypical wise crack about the >Japanese--sorry that it sounded that way. But I've lived in Japan for >4 years and taught English--I can speak the language, and I know many >Japanese. I've lived there so long, and taught English, that I can >joke about such things with them and they can joke along with me. I >almost feel Japanese myself that way. The truth is that they DO make >many mistakes with their "r"s and "l"s. Heck, I lived there so long >that I make the same mistakes, too! I too apologize for what I now realize may have been offensive remarks. Heck, I was complaining about English mistakes, and the misspelled word in question wasn't even English! Also, I can back up Joe's statement about "L" and "R." These sounds as we know them in English do not exist in the Japanese language, and any adult Japanese person who has really tried to learn English will probably tell you that they are difficult. Other problem areas are "M" / "N," "B" / "V," and "TH." Of course, it's wrong to use these difficulties to make fun of people, but I didn't get the impression that Joe was doing that. Sorry, this had absolutely nothing to do with Basia... except to say that I once studied Polish for a semester and there were plenty of sounds in that language *I* had trouble with. :-) - -Brian* ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V4 #234 ***************************