Re: Idioms (was Website update)
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 7, 1999, 6:43 |
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On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Tom Wier wrote:
> Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
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> > Irina has updated the dictionary, and I've done pages
> > on the script (a pig to load, I'm afraid)
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> Is this a Dutch idiom? Interesting. Here's another interesting
> topic that I haven't seen much on the list before (at least that
> I can remember): idioms. What idioms do people have in their
> languages?
>
Not really, I've first come across the phrase in eighties English
computer magazines describing some games with speedloaders for the
ZX-Spectrum. Those were the days when your software arrived on
ordinary audio cassesttes, and often in a misguided attempt at making
the game both more difficult to copy with a double tape-deck
_and_ quicker to load, the software house fiddled with the loading
routine, instead of using the standard that worked reliable. (Little
Microsofts, all of them.)
Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt