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Re: Fourier transform

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On 03/24/2012 07:44 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 21:52:55 +0100, Jan Burse<janburse@fastmail.fm>
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>
>> Further all lower caps saves
>> typing energy, so do short words
>>from foreign languages.
>
> Its more that people unconsciously substitute words from their native
> language when grasping for an unfamiliar similar one in  the second
> language.
>
> The world is becoming a village. We are going to have to expand our
> vocabularies to include some vocabulary from all the people we talk
> to. Think of it as local slang, like "pear shaped" in England that you
> won't necessarily know off the bat.

Or "off the bat".

I believe this term originates with cricket, but is explicable to Americans by 
dint of baseball.

> When I was a kid, I was always impressed by people who could speak
> foreign languages in films.  I don't mind it at all when someone prods
> me to expand my vocabulary.

Bill Shatner did an entire movie in Esperanto.

-- 
Lew
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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Fourier transform bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-03-21 07:07 -0700
  Re: Fourier transform Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-03-21 07:46 -0700
  Re: Fourier transform glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-03-21 18:08 +0000
    Re: Fourier transform v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2012-03-21 22:59 +0000
      Re: Fourier transform glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-03-22 03:46 +0000
  Re: Fourier transform Frank Langelage <frank@lafr.de> - 2012-03-21 20:35 +0100
  Re: Fourier transform Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-03-21 18:14 -0700
  Re: Fourier transform Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-03-22 11:28 -0700
    Re: Fourier transform Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-03-24 12:34 +0100
      Re: Fourier transform Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-03-24 21:40 +0100
      Re: Fourier transform Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-03-24 21:52 +0100
        Re: Fourier transform Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-03-24 22:17 +0100
          Re: Fourier transform Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-24 18:52 -0400
            Re: Fourier transform Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-03-25 00:34 +0100
        Re: Fourier transform Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-03-24 14:55 -0700
          Re: Fourier transform Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-03-24 23:24 +0100
            Re: Fourier transform Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com> - 2012-03-24 23:39 +0100
              Re: Fourier transform Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-03-24 23:44 +0100
                Re: Fourier transform Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com> - 2012-03-24 23:53 +0100
                Re: Fourier transform Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-03-25 00:27 +0100
              Re: Fourier transform Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-03-24 23:46 +0100
        Re: Fourier transform Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-03-24 19:44 -0700
          Re: Fourier transform Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-03-25 14:30 -0700
            Re: Fourier transform Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-03-25 20:42 -0700
              Re: Fourier transform "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-26 09:48 -0400
                Re: Fourier transform Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-03-26 16:06 +0200
          Re: Fourier transform Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-25 18:17 -0400

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