From: Liam Proven Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 10:54 AM > On 10 December 2015 at 20:42, Rich Alderson <ri...@livingcomputermuseum.org> > wrote:
>> From: Liam Proven >> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 8:33 AM >>> *I* never delete my emails. I have a trail back to 1994. So? >> Piker. > Um. I don't know what that means. In UK English, "pikey" is a highly > offensive pejorative term for a person of Gypsy or Romany origin, or > these days, more generically, a person of very lower-class origins: > "trailer trash". I am guessing you didn't mean that. :-) > So, what, it means I'm very young? I'm fine with that, given I'm nearing > 50. :-D Two cultures separated by a common language, and all that. According to the dictionaries of American English which I just consulted, it is refers to small-time gamblers and others who make limited cash outlays. Hmm. In nearly 60 years of reading and watching movies and television program(me)s, the internalized definition I have for it is any person who does something in a small way. Usually used jokingly. Thus, that your collected e-mail is two decades' less duration than mine leads to such a description. Certainly no offense intended. >> On the subject line topic, I read this list via an Exchange/Outlook setup, > [...] >> Simple. Quick. > This must be some strange new usage of the words "simple" and "quick" > that I wasn't previously aware of. Well, given that I first learned EMACS (to give the TECO spelling) when you were all of 8 years old, the method I described *is* simple and quick, for me. Isn't this the Old Geezers club? :-) Rich Rich Alderson Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer Living Computer Museum 2245 1st Avenue S Seattle, WA 98134 mailto:ri...@livingcomputermuseum.org http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/