Undercover cop cars?

Again, you might add. ~

As long as we're doing it...
....what I had in mind comparing English to the Yugo languages, specifically,
was stuff like this:

-we've got a dedicated "archaic" past tense. Using it automatically
teleports everything you're talking about five centuries back through time.
Attempting to do the same in English ends up sounding overwrought and
cumbersome, laboured, like dialogue in the LOTR trilogy.

-there's an ingrained formalism for imbuing statements with varying amounts
of gravitas, menace, exultation... for example, the way all the old
Communist slogans read so hollow when translated into English is half due to
the fact that they were, essentially, bullshit, but also half due to there
simply being no way to convey the impact tightly interwoven into the words
without unfurling each into almost a complete English sentence, almost like
clicking "View source" on a webpage.

-Like Theo already pointed out, you've got a noun. Do you want it just
diminutive, or would you prefer cute diminutive, derogatory diminutive,
ironic diminutive... it's usually just a suffix away.

-the cursing. Oh, the cursing...

 

My reference to arabic numerals didn't elicit much of a response in this
thread 4 days ago.

Nev..

 

You haven't met some of my students.

Confronted with the task of subtracting 37 from 42 to complete an
exercise as part of an exam, one student wrote "cannot complete, as not
allowed to use a calculator in the exam".

Moike

 

In some languages, such as Italian, the word "phonetic" has no sense....

(Like trying to explain "procedural" to someone who only knows about COBOL.)

Moike

 

a word which no doubt should start with an X and end in an E.

Nev..

 

"Moike" wrote

Wow! I mostly got into trouble in junior high for not showing my workings. I
agreed with my teacher that 16^2 is not mental arithmetic. That is rote.
65^2 is mental arithmetic. If you've been working on computers so is 2^8. Of
course it is really 100000000.

Theo

 

....but for the exact opposite reason we are able to read Egyptian writings
2000 years later.

Nev..

 

How about we just change the whole language so we all spell like a moronic
teenagers who spend all day sending moronic text messages?

We could call it "Cluelesslish" or "Fucktardlish" or "Iamasdumbasfuckingrockslish".

 

Watched someone grab a calculator to add $10 to a COD post form I'd
filled out once. Even said something. "Habit", they said.

Neil
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personal opinion unless otherwise noted.
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If Hieroglyphics weren't phonetic we wouldn't know how to pronounce the names
of Egyptian rulers.

The greatest benefit of the Chinese written word is that it is transportable
between languages.

Nev..

 

Sometimes I wish I had to use a calculator to think of numbers...

being an accountant has it's disadvantages... believe me...

picture this:

Heading to the Useless Club Christmas party... (going with parents... -
I'm not old enough yet - but will be a member - so I'm not bagging them...)

So Dad says... "well - our family is 5 out of 55 people who are going
to be there - 1/11th... so that's like 10%"

not more than two seconds later...

"no - actually - it's 9.09% - but close enough!"

so naturally - Dad's going "how did you work that out so quickly??"

thinking about it - it's not a percentage that one would usually come
across...

but then we have GST... and 1/11th of $10.00 is 90.91 cents... (sad huh???)

I was talking at work about it - and before I'd even explained the GST
reason why that stupid number had come to my head... she'd gone "ahh -
GST on $10"

ARGH! ARGH! ARGH!

I think when I grow up I want to be a Garbo!

 

http://www.ba.dlr.de/ne/pe/virtis/stone1.htm

 

Is that why their assembly instructions are so good

 

"Neil Fisher" wrote

Best experience I had was buying a part for $10 plus 10% tax and getting 10%
discount. Guy asked me for $10, I told him it was $9.90. He looked at me
like I was stupid and got his calculator out to prove that I was an idiot
and that $10 plus 10% minus 10% equals $10. He tried it several ways,
thought that he might get a different answer if he subtracted the 10% first,
then decided he had a crook calculator. I just gave him the $10. He was
still playing with the calculator when I walked out the door.

I went to Bunnings Monday and bought three different items and put the items
and some money on the counter. The astonished look on the girls face when
the money I put on the counter just happened to be the exact amount her
computer came up with, including the 2c rounding discount, was priceless.

Theo
Binary people can only count to 1.

 

Easy that one, 10% of $10 is $1. So it's $11

10% of $11 is $1.10

11 - 1.1 = $9.90

 

G'day mate, which head worked that out?

Is the 50cc back together?

John

Beer?

 

bits of it are coming together. Other bits are still soaking in a caustic
solution. It has a bad case of phosphide euctectic on the once were shiny
bits.

2 beers mate, one for each head.

(Booked the PI GP ferry tickets) I be there on Friday morning

 

Are there any Undercover Cop Bikes???

Dicken's Cider
BMW R1150 G/S

 

What about furniture removalist bikes?

 

The closest I've ever seen to an undercover cop bike are the trailies that get
around. The only markings on them is a small Police sticker on the side. Riders
aren't marked in any way that I can recall other than they all wear exactly the same
gear and ride exactly the same bikes.

Then again, if a bike was properly undercover, I wouldn't know if I saw one or not.