On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 09:01 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
On Jan 4, 2008 8:39 AM, David Zeuthen <davidz(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> Sorry, I'm not from around here. And last time I played Monopoly, I
> guess some 15-20 years ago, the USD was actually twice as much to the
> DKK than it is today.
Which makes the use of the phrase all that more interesting.. in a
very off-topic sort of way. Does US consumer culture have a
...monopoly... on widely adopted popular culture? It makes me a
little sad to think that it might. I was hoping interacting with a
global community, even if we are doing it in Englishese, I'd get a
chance to vacuum up some useful, badly translated and out-of-context
colloquial phrases from other cultures.
-jef"was really hoping the global internet community would develop a
pidgin language that looks more like Card's battle school pidgin and
less like aol-speak"spaleta
you're gathering a jeesh even now, ne? :)
-sv