Quoting Muke Tever <muke@...>:
> From: "Tristan McLeay" <kesuari@...>
> > John Cowan wrote:
> > Which does nothing but demand the joke about the Texan being showed
> a
> > station [~=AmE ranch] in Australia.
>
> I hope I'm not the only one that tried to figure out how [~=AmEranch]
> was
> supposed to be pronounced, and how the Australians could mangle the
> word
> 'station' so badly...
We're two at the least.
I've also always wondered whether "[snip]" is a comment enclosed in brackets,
or an approximation of the sound of deleting a chunk of a post.
Andreas