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Re: YAPT: Dutch ij and ui

From:Tristan Mc Leay <kesuari@...>
Date:Friday, July 23, 2004, 14:13
Carsten Becker wrote:

>On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 21:34:38 +1000, Tristan Mc Leay <kesuari@...> >wrote: > > >>You know how confused you made me here? When I finally worked out that >>you meant you not only decided to visit another country, but *you did >>it* within a few days, perhaps even hours, I decided that I have to hate >>you. >> >> >Wait! My English (sometimes) sucks and is (sometimes) unintelligible, I >know. Let me explain in detail, giving the date sof the days: During lunch >on Wednesday, July 21st, 2004, my parents came up with the idea of having >an one-day excursion to the Netherlands at my brother's 13th birthday (July >29). Because I'm not at home on this day and I'd like to come with them >(you don't have the chance to visit another country every day after all), >they decided to do it on Thursday, July 22nd, 2004 which was yesterday. So >yesterday, my family and me have been to the Netherlands. We were back home >yesterday at ~10pm, so I'm at home in Germany again today. Why hating me? > >
Because you can go to another country in a day! Having a one-day excursion to another country from Australia would be a tiring task and would involve lots of airport and not much country.
>I've never been to America as well. If things run badly, I'll never come to >visit America. Or do you live in Australia? >
It's very hard to live in America and have christmas/summer holidays (meaning holidays that include both summer and christmas), though I'm sure a lot of people would like to have them :)
>Then you have a problem indeed ;) But no need to hate someone! > >
'Hate' is such a harsh word that I have no idea of what concept it expresses. Rather than letting a perfectly useable word go to waste, I* have re-applied it as a euphamism for something that is normally expressed using words like 'jealous' or 'envious' but isn't quite that. It's always clear what it means in person because it's said with a happy tone of voice but English doesn't have written tones of voice... Please do not feel offended, I wouldn't hate anyone I didn't like! *: I didn't do it consciously. I have no idea whether it's common or if I invented it or something else, but I do it and it normally doesn't cause misunderstanding, so I keep doing it. -- | Tristan. | To be nobody-but-yourself in a world | kesuari@yahoo!.com.au | which is doing its best to, night and day, | | to make you everybody else--- | | means to fight the hardest battle | | which any human being can fight; | | and never stop fighting. | | --- E. E. Cummings, "A Miscellany" | | | | In the fight between you and the world, | | back the world. | | --- Franz Kafka, | | "RS's 1974 Expectation of Days"

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