Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder7.news.weretis.net!border2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 20:35:23 -0500 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 02:34:12 +0100 From: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" Newsgroups: alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips Subject: Re: General ramblings (with some Linux flavouring). (Was: Re: Linux founder tells Intel to stop inventing 'magic instructions' and 'start fixing real problems') References: <1q8s3dvb888t.dlg@v.nguard.lh> Organization: 255 software MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1;format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Turnpike/6.07-M () Lines: 23 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-qVm9odTM4kUj+5KPzvFy3d5iL94fepaWl0JUl07ryoMS2pCHg5Lno67W+AlxtQBG8+5pTOSVeEiedOx!mDuBnd1Qyh6W4bLx3Wv5SniqnhRGCDFzA5YRSfQm5ceQkDcAVDOF6G7t0uPFZ3R1ZzY/s1+5 X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2467 Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-10:117775 comp.sys.intel:708 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips:2623 On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 at 02:23:42, Brian Gregory wrote: >On 17/07/2020 20:49, T wrote: >> Also interesting, in America we say "that horse is different >> FROM that one".  In the UK they say "that horse is different >> TO that one".  Or so the shows from the UK on Netflix use it. > >Utter rubbish. >I've never said different to in my life. >Sounds daft. >Just as daft as saying I'm excited for Christmas. >It's supposed to be I'm excited about Christmas. > surprised, hopefully, comprise/consist, myriad ... much/many/less/few(er) ... then there is the US/UK different use of small auxiliary words, above all "up" ... but also of, with, to ... -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf It's a beta orgy, not a product. - Mayayana in alt.windows7.general, 2018-3-8