Re: Alphabet

On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Keith Gaughan wrote:

> At 11:26 02/11/01 -0800, you wrote:
> >On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Keith Gaughan wrote:
> >
> > > At 10:55 02/11/01 -0800, you wrote:
> > > > > by collectioner, and "char", a violent, metallic, ugly war vehicle. Now
> > > > dare
> > > > > say that voiced consonnants are harder than voiceless... :))))))))
> > > > >
> > > > > Christophe.
> > > >
> > > >This one always makes me laugh. In Joual (Quebecois - the name comes from
> > > >the way the Quebecois outside of Montreal and Quebec (Capiatla
> > > >Nationale) pronounce the word "cheval"), anyway, in Joual "char" means
> > > >just a plain old everyday car, which it seems for most Quebecois is a
> > > >Renault 5.
> > >
> > > ?SYNTAX ERROR
> > > READY.
> >
> >Ha?
> >
> >You've flown past me like a Spitfire...
>
> Anybody out there ever have a C64?
No, I had a Vic20 and still have an NEC PC-6001, the latter of which for
the above said simply:

SN Error in [line number]

It just gave two letter abbreviations instead of writing the whole word
out, mystifying me early on when it wrote stuff like "IN Error"
(IIRC) when (again, IIRC - it only happened once and a very long
time ago at that) a subroutine or somesuch was improperly nested.

>
> No? Shame on you!
>
> That's the extremely informative error Commodore BASIC would throw back at you
> if you made an error typing in something... like... oh damn... didn't notice
> that the brackets were correctly nested... My error! Doh!
>
But I did make a spelling error: I wrote "Capiatla Nationale" in lieu of
"Capital Nationale".


---frank

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