Re: CHAT: Explaining English to the Americans (was: Hymn to Ikea)

On Thursday, February 26, 2004, at 07:16  AM, John Cowan wrote:
>>> queue
>> Already encountered, but always jarring to see it used like this.
>> It'd be
>> like if you said "the readying of people waiting to claim one",
>> meaning the
>> same thing.
> I wish I said "queueing" (but I can't, of course, if I wish to be
> understood); my native term "getting on line" (New York and
> Minneapolis;
> elsewhere "getting in line") is verbose by comparison.
Wow, i had no idea someplace other than NYC said "getting on line"...
but when speaking about the line-formation as a whole, wouldn't the
shorter "lining up" work too?


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   you touch perfect speed.  And that isn't flying a thousand
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