On Saturday 22 November 2014 00:47:00 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 22/11/14 09:59, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 21 November 2014 22:43:11 Ross Boylan wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Scott Ferguson > >> > >> <scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> On 21/11/14 15:13, Ross Boylan wrote: > >>>> Over the last week I've repeatedly found my machine unbootable, in the > >>>> sense I couldn't get to a working system without intervention. > >>>> Sometimes I couldn't even get the grub2 menu. > >>> > >>> Tick > >> > >> I don't understand what you mean by tick. > > > > You Americans! It's lucky that we English can talk American. Tick is > > the English for check. > > > >> [snip] > > <snipped> > > Correct Lisi, thanks for your "worldly-awareness". If I'd written > "check" the larger part of the world might interpret that as an > instruction. My apologies to Ross for the confusion.
I once had an email from an American with a sentence with the word check in it 3 times. He meant cheque, tick - and check. But it did take me a moment or two to work out. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201411220850.42402.lisi.re...@gmail.com
