Sun, 12 Nov 2023 17:00:45 +0100: Ruud Harmsen <rh@rudhar.com>
scribeva:
Wonder if anything still comes through here? After a crazy wave of
spam that even my provider could not filter out, it's now totally
silent. Well, but apart from the spam, very little has been going on
here in the last year anyway.
Oh yes, it works. Applause for the spam filter makers then.
Wonder if anything still comes through here? After a crazy wave of
spam that even my provider could not filter out, it's now totally
silent. Well, but apart from the spam, very little has been going on
here in the last year anyway.
Wonder if anything still comes through here?
Sun, 12 Nov 2023 17:00:45 +0100: Ruud Harmsen <rh@rudhar.com>
scribeva:
Wonder if anything still comes through here? After a crazy wave of
spam that even my provider could not filter out, it's now totally
silent. Well, but apart from the spam, very little has been going on
here in the last year anyway.
Oh yes, it works. Applause for the spam filter makers then.
On 2023-11-12, Ruud Harmsen <rh@rudhar.com> wrote:
Wonder if anything still comes through here?
Yes, it does. It's just hard to see among the spam. I assume the
flood will subside eventually...
Wonder if anything still comes through here? After a crazy wave of
spam that even my provider could not filter out, it's now totally
silent. Well, but apart from the spam, very little has been going on
here in the last year anyway.
On 13/11/2023 5:01 a.m., Ruud Harmsen wrote:
Sun, 12 Nov 2023 17:00:45 +0100: Ruud Harmsen <rh@rudhar.com>
scribeva:
Wonder if anything still comes through here? After a crazy wave of
spam that even my provider could not filter out, it's now totally
silent. Well, but apart from the spam, very little has been going on
here in the last year anyway.
Oh yes, it works. Applause for the spam filter makers then.
Yes indeed.
Well, there's you, me, Tim Lang, maybe Antonio.
I fear PTD has given up, and Daud's moved himself elsewhere.
Now all we need is something to talk about.
Well, there's you, me, Tim Lang, maybe Antonio.
I fear PTD has given up,
and Daud's moved himself elsewhere.
Now all we need is something to talk about.
On 2023-11-12, Ross Clark <benl...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
Well, there's you, me, Tim Lang, maybe Antonio.Hey, I'm here, too!
I fear PTD has given up,He posts from Google Groups, so he'll be hit by spam filters.
and Daud's moved himself elsewhere.I won't miss his glossolaliac musings.
Now all we need is something to talk about.This is probably not a good group for English usage, but here we go: Yesterday I found myself writing
"I can't be the first one to run into this [problem], can I?"
and then I started wondering about the tag question:
- "can I?"
- "am I?"
- "right?" [avoid the verb]
Because the rule from EFL class--always repeat the auxiliary or use
a form of "do" if there is none--is definitely not the whole truth.
--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
This is probably not a good group for English usage, but here we go: >Yesterday I found myself writing
"I can't be the first one to run into this [problem], can I?"
and then I started wondering about the tag question:
- "can I?"
- "am I?"
- "right?" [avoid the verb]
In article <slrnul1v36.dfa.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>,
Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
On 2023-11-12, Ruud Harmsen <rh@rudhar.com> wrote:
Wonder if anything still comes through here?
Yes, it does. It's just hard to see among the spam. I assume the
flood will subside eventually...
Just kill all the posts coming from googlegroups.com.
In trn it's /google-groups.googlegroups.com/HInjection-Info:j
Add it to the killfile for the specific newsgroup and it will clean up the new arrivals.
Pierre
On 13/11/2023 5:01 a.m., Ruud Harmsen wrote:
Sun, 12 Nov 2023 17:00:45 +0100: Ruud Harmsen <rh@rudhar.com>
scribeva:
Wonder if anything still comes through here? After a crazy wave of
spam that even my provider could not filter out, it's now totally
silent. Well, but apart from the spam, very little has been going on
here in the last year anyway.
Oh yes, it works. Applause for the spam filter makers then.
Yes indeed.
Well, there's you, me, Tim Lang, maybe Antonio.
I fear PTD has given up, and Daud's moved himself elsewhere.
Now all we need is something to talk about.
Pierre Jelenc <rcpj@panix.com> wrote:
In article <slrnul1v36.dfa.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>,
Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
On 2023-11-12, Ruud Harmsen <rh@rudhar.com> wrote:
Wonder if anything still comes through here?
Yes, it does. It's just hard to see among the spam. I assume the
flood will subside eventually...
Just kill all the posts coming from googlegroups.com.
But again, is the spam coming from there? Being relayed? What, exactly?
My understanding was it comes from other places.
Mon, 13 Nov 2023 09:37:56 -0000 (UTC): Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> scribeva:
This is probably not a good group for English usage, but here we go: >Yesterday I found myself writing
"I can't be the first one to run into this [problem], can I?"
and then I started wondering about the tag question:
- "can I?"
- "am I?"
- "right?" [avoid the verb]
My non-native language sense says "can I?" is all right.
‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
(C. Moore)
fTue, 14 Nov 2023 10:48:50 +0000: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> scribeva:
‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’ >(C. Moore)
Fourteen? Hwedwortehun! https://rudhar.com/musica/hwedwortehun/
Ar an ceathrú lá déag de mí na Samhain, scríobh Ruud Harmsen:
fTue, 14 Nov 2023 10:48:50 +0000: Aidan Kehoe <keh...@parhasard.net> scribeva:
‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out / >How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’ >(C. Moore)
Fourteen? Hwedwortehun! https://rudhar.com/musica/hwedwortehun/I am currently working as a GP on the west coast of Ireland (a change since I
was last posting here about fifteen years ago, working in IT in Germany) and many of my patients have an alternation between /hw/ and [f] (in English), reminiscent of that change. I don’t assert that this is preserved from protogermanic!
--
‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
(C. Moore)
Fourteen? Hwedwortehun! https://rudhar.com/musica/hwedwortehun/
On 2023-11-14, Ruud Harmsen <rh@rudhar.com> wrote:
Fourteen? Hwedwortehun! https://rudhar.com/musica/hwedwortehun/
Germanic has alliterated "four" to "five", but Latin and thus the
Romance languages have alliterated "quinque" (five) to "quattuor"
(four)! Or maybe it is a rare but regular soundchange in Latin,
opinions differ. Anyway, the roots for 4 and 5 have different
onsets in PIE, compare for instance Greek or Slavic. But wait,
Slavic has alliterated the d- from the "ten" word to the "nine"
word...
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