Might work in Germany - where they spell Nijmegen as Nimwegen, and pronounce it that way, but Nijmegen doesn't rhyme with beggin' because the last "e" in Nijmegen isn't reduced as it would be in English, so it isn't the same as the reduced "i" in beggin' (which is a schwa).
Leave the bilingual limericks to John Woodgate, who knows enough about language to get the structure right.
------- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
why stop there: all those who didnt send a message at all (0 + 0 header lines) come first-equal :)
Cheers Terry
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Please don't reply to Bill S., I get nauseous every time I see that name... the resident EuroLoony ;-)
...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Think coding efficiency. All of the short messages posted here so far have carried zero information, yet required many, many bits to do so. a non-existent message carries the same amount of information (ie none) but uses far less bits (to wit: zero ) (pun intentional)
Cheers Terry
Ha!
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This would be the resident demented Yank kettle called the resident Euro-loony pot black. If Jim had retained a few more neurons, he be able to remember that I maintain my Australian citizenship and merely reside in Europe, and he'd realise that he was falsely blackening the name of an entire sub-continent.
------- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
Oh, I wouldn't worry too much about Jim. He's just a spoiled rich kid getting on in years, trying to capture his misspent youth by blaming everyone else for his shortcomings.
Cheers! Rich
I read in sci.electronics.design that snipped-for-privacy@ieee.org wrote (in ) about 'Short message', on Fri, 18 Mar 2005:
If you and Jim would both lay off the political duologue, you'd get along better and the rest of us would be less bored by the name-calling. In UK, we're going to get a belly-full of that in the run-up to the election.
Mind you, the elderly Chinese community is looking forward to a General Erection.
-- Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. There are two sides to every question, except 'What is a Moebius strip?' http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk
Very good.
Cheers Terry
There's not going to be an election here, is there? I haven't heard of it. Well if there is, should I vote for that nice Mr. Blair, or charming Mr. Howard? Or should it be the other guy, you know, Whatsisname? Or should I just copy one of Genome's posts and write that on the voting slip?
And fine upstanding members of the community they are. A Japanese friend took to English folk music while he was over here- he loved to sing the song about the nightingale that "sings in the varrey berow".
Paul Burke
-- Yer a Nijit. We (here in La Republica de Texas) speak mostly 'Murrican English, not Nijmegian, and just because 'Nijmegen' is spelled the same here and in Nijmegen doen't means that it's pronounciated the same here as it is there, duh... You really should check these linguistic matters over with your better half before you post. If you'd care to spell it phonetically I'd be happy to write you a limerick which I'm sure you'd find amusing, if not downright hilarious!
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Another one of your unsubstantiated (not to mention misspelled) assertions.
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The word "Nijmegen" divides into three syllables, so I doubt if it forms part of the active vocabulary of any Texan.
The fact is that your limerick wouldn't scan if recited by anybody who knows the word may not mean anything to you, but it looks comic to anybody on the outside looking in.
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She's got better things to do with her time than confirming the obvious.
Dream on. Even if I were to waste my wife's time for long enough to get her to write out Nijmegen in IPA
I wouldn't be able to post it here.
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You've yet to successfully impugn my logic, while yours is scarcely up to TTL.
------- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
-- Just because you fail to comprehend the substantiation doesn't mean it isn't, hey? (not to mention that you mentined and claimed that you weren't going to mention a mispeeling)
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Your grasp of logic really isn't up to perceiving it in the statements of unimpaired adults, so I can understand why you might think you were trying to prove a negative.
I can't make up my mind whether I should characterise you as a dismal example of the defects of the Texan education system or whether I've got to invoke both fetal and adult alcohol syndromes to explain your obvious retardation.
-------- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
-- But we're not discussing unimpaired adults, we're discussing you. For example, look at your next sentence:
I read in sci.electronics.design that snipped-for-privacy@ieee.org wrote (in ) about 'Short message', on Sat, 19 Mar 2005:
All this about a sanguinary 'test message'?? Get a life!
-- Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. There are two sides to every question, except 'What is a Moebius strip?' http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk
....certainly more than the one I'm in, since the current(cy) flows
*strongly* in the other direction.No one is challenging your knowledge here, Fred.
-- Keith
I'm trying, but of the 17000 unemployed inhabitants of the Netherlands in my age group, only about 250 (1.5%) managed to get a job in the last year. I'm doing my best to beat the statistics, but the prospects aren't pelasing.
----------- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
Not really - my wife has an excellent job here, and while Germany is very close, learning Dutch wrecked my capacity to produce spoken German.
In a bit over five years we'll probably be back in Australia, when things should pick up, but at the moment the best option I've been able to come up with is to study computer science at the local university. Of course it turned out that I had to prove I that I could communicate in Dutch by sitting and passing the official exam, which I should have done back in 1997, and finally got around to sitting a fortnight ago. I'm happy with my performance on the tests for reading, listening to, and speaking Dutch but my written Dutch always seems to contain about one error per sentence so I can't be confident of passing that particular section - none of my employers has ever wanted me to write Dutch rather than English, so I've never done enough practice to get the last of the bus out of my grammar.
I could have started the course last year as a "contract" student without passing the language test, but the course fees would have been four times higher.
-------------- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
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