From: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org (oppositeview-digest) To: oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Subject: oppositeview-digest V5 #118 Reply-To: oppositeview@smoe.org Sender: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oppositeview-digest Tuesday, August 19 2003 Volume 05 : Number 118 Today's Subjects: ----------------- OV: RE: Ebay ["Jane Armstrong" ] OV: (OT) Confucius says... ["Birgit Wurm" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 19:39:21 +0100 From: "Jane Armstrong" Subject: OV: RE: Ebay Oh no! Keep me away from it!! I've already got a Change Everything gold disc so I don't need a Waking Hours platinum one do I. Do I??? NO I can't afford it....... Jane > Someone's selling a Del Platinum Disc on Ebay (Waking > Hours).starting at #95...anyone wanna buy me an early > Christmas Pressie!?? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 00:01:12 +0200 From: "Birgit Wurm" Subject: OV: (OT) Confucius says... One who accepts occasionally system crash of his PC could be driven crazy if his wash machine behaves the same way. Well, actually the guy is a Chinese computer science student writing his diploma thesis (helped by my father). This sentence is used to illustrate why embedded devices (such as the little gizmos in charge of your washing machine (and yes, my knowledge of this is about level with his English (and this is definitely one of his better sentences))) need to be robuster and more reliable than your average PC. My (unpaid) job in all this is to find all thats seriously wrong language-wise and Im seriously beginning to wonder if alcohol wouldnt actually make me do a better job?! Or I guess I could always go back to my (equally unpaid) work for Plan International where Im part of the communication chain that tells German foster parents all the interesting things about their foster children in e.g. Kenya. Like Gladys family are still using a private latrine for their toilet facilities. Or the fact that a couple of farmers got training in catching mice with micro-organic medicine. Just maybe the world will look a little brighter tomorrowand I DO promise not to bother you with that. ____________________________________________________________________________ ImmobilienScout24 - Uber 170.000 Immobilien - Finden Sie hier Ihre neue Traumwohnung! In Immobilien die Nr.1 im Netz: http://info.is24.de/web.de ------------------------------ End of oppositeview-digest V5 #118 **********************************