On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:25:03 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 06/10/11 17:33, Camaleón wrote: >> OTOH, I dunno how Claws manages this,
> Camaleón, I know English isn't your first language, although you write > it extremely well. I hope, therefore, that you won't take offence at my > picking you up on the ghastly contraction "dunno". The correct usage is > "I don't know". I didn't know using "dunno" was incorrect, I mean, when using a casual language like the one it happens on a mailing list such this :-? When I'm not sure about a word (which happens more times than I'd like), I query several sources, like "Google translate" or the Oxford dictionary and in both appears as a proper/valid term: http://translate.google.com/#en|es|I%20dunno http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/dunno But I'm always willing to learn, so may I ask why you find its usage ofensive or not appropiate? I'm curious. (feel free to e-mail me directly to avoid people gets angry for filling up the list with more and more Off-Topic questions...) > I'll probably get mightily flamed for this, but it makes me bristle > every time I see it! I will try to get used to a more polite speaking, but I will have to discard from my mind all that "AFAIK, IIRC, AFAICT...", which make me write a bit faster and do less typos ;-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.10.08.19.37...@gmail.com
