Sorry - it was late when I posted. My sense of humour must have fallen asleep!
1e6 = 1e9
Apr 30, 2015
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Caterpillar?
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Syd
A milliard is 0.9144mm.
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Syd
It fell a slip.
so, you were tide?
umop apisdn
Staying awake is quay.
Total bollards.
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Phil Hobbs
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Hey, you foreigners are *not* allowed to make puns in English.
John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
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Americans don't speak English - they may claim that their dialect is "English", or at least those that know what "dialect" means, but few of them can spell antidisestablishmentarianism, and even fewer know what it means.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney
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I might be closer to 100% because many of the non-foreigners do not have the American citizenship.
Reinhardt
Are you implying that only 1% of all USians now alive were born
here?
John Fields
How about pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis? No, I didn't look it up just now. I came across the word in the 60s or
70s - I think it was in TIME - and it's stuck in my mind ever since.
Aren't 99% of all Americans foreigners to the land? :-)
Perhaps, but that wasn't hate. At worst, mild disapprobation.
Bill Sloman, Sydney
Didn't see the smiley? Anyway, let's put it this way. America and India were colonized in roughly the same era. English became, and still is, an official language here. Most official and business communications and teaching are done in English, no matter how much we sometimes mangle the original language (the same thing is done by Americans anyway). So how does that make us foreigners as far as English is concerned?
(I'm assuming that we're switching to "literal" here, as this sounds like a real question.)
Caterpillars only have 6 real legs. They have can have 2, 4 or 6 (IIRC) additional pseudopods that act a bit like legs, but are not anatomical legs. They are just shaped stumps formed from the main body, with muscles to allow simple movement and suction pads, and are distinct from real jointed legs.
Do people pun much in Hindi or Bengali or whatever? English is a wonderfully disorganized and goofy language, ideal for jokes and puns. I'd imagine that a more regular language, like Spanish maybe, would have less potential.
John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing laser drivers and controllers
jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com
Asterix is _way_ funnier in French. Just the names, for a start--the tireso me bard who can't sing is called 'Assurancetourix', i.e. an insurance sales man, and the chief who always has his arms crossed is 'Abraracourcix'. Obel ix is shaped like an obelisk, and Asterix is the star.
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Phil Hobbs
I was being mildly facetious, but now I've learned something new!
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Syd
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