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Nic Name 05-10-2002 09:42 AM

Pick on someone your own caliber

a good sig for MaggieL :p

Tobiasly 05-10-2002 10:42 AM

Re: Not French
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Torrere
Non. En Français, c'est "en anglais, s'il vous plaît?".
Yeesh, I knew someone was gonna jump all over that, but I didn't wanna make a huge deal of it, but what fun is not making a huge deal of things? :)

I said "I think the first half of Joe's post was supposed to be French". Supposed to meaning, yes, I realized French for English is anglais, not englais, but it's still closer than inglés.

My take was that since he didn't understand what language Maggie was speaking, he figured he'd try a few and hopefully hit on one.

"En anglais, por favor". Make sense now?

Joe 05-10-2002 11:24 AM

Joe wades into a language debate
 
I meant it to be Spanish.

I didn't mean for it to be rigorously correct, right down to the upside-down question marks that make me cut and paste from an ASCII editor.

The point was "what the heck did the person mean with all the gun jargon" not "check out my mastery of Spanish".

Yeesh.

dave 05-10-2002 11:39 AM

Actually, if you hold ALT and type

168

on the right numeric keypad and then let up ALT, the ¿ shall appear. I actually learned it from making faces back in the day, like this

º¿º

which is 167 168 167

Play around with it a little and you'll get it. I have all the important ones memorized. :)

Tobiasly 05-10-2002 12:31 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Joe
I meant it to be Spanish.
I've already made up my mind; don't confuse me with facts. :)

Quote:

Originally posted by dhamsaic
Play around with it a little and you'll get it. I have all the important ones memorized.
Hahaha... reminds me of back in the day of Word 2.0, before it automatically did things like curly quotes and em dashes. Plus, being a chem major, I used lots of ° and ± and stuff like that.

P.S. How do you figure out your codes dhamsaic? I memorized the ASCII codes, in which you have to use 4 digits (w/ leading zeros if necessary). So ¿ is ALT+0191, instead of ALT+168. Windows Character Map shows you the ASCII version in the bottom-right corner.

Torrere 05-10-2002 07:10 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Tobiasly

I've already made up my mind; don't confuse me with facts.

Welcome to my quotes.txt file, Tobiasly.

Nic Name 05-10-2002 07:13 PM

WORDS OF WISDOM FOR WISE GUYS

Nic Name 05-15-2002 05:24 PM

That's no dead suicide bomber
 
http://i.timeinc.net/time/potw/20020510/robot.jpg

Joe 05-15-2002 06:19 PM

That guy's seriously dissapointed
 
He's looking around going "Where are my 40 virgins! I didn't know heaven used robots to greet newcomers! This looks just like Earth! WTF!!!"


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