On 18/11/17 18:18, Karlin High wrote: > On 11/18/2017 11:33 AM, David Wright wrote: >> You might find yourself being >> misunderstood in more serious circumstances, if you don't allow >> for the same words to mean different things, or even the opposite. > > Reminds me of my cousin on a business trip to England. He learned that, > unlike in America, the terms "phone card" and "calling card" are NOT > equivalent and interchangeable.
Which is why, while I don't give a monkeys which version of English you use (and I *most* *emphatically* *do* *not* think "Standard English" is THE correct form of English), I really would like to know which version you are speaking because I would like to understand you. Calling cards pre-date phones. And while I don't know exactly where the critters live, I think if a skunk left its calling card close by you'd know about it! Certainly it's a damn nuisance when the foxes leave theirs outside our doors. Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
