On 11/17/07, Duncan Booth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >Bjoern Schliessmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Benjamin wrote: >>> Python is has duck typing. "If it quacks like a duke, it's duck." >> >> How do dukes quack, exactly? :) > >They quack with a North-eastern Scottish accent of course. > >The following excerpt from "Scots: Practical Approaches" should make it >clear: > >> A. From Scotland the What?, by Buff Hardie, Stephen Robertson and >> George Donald (Gordon Wright, 1987) >> >> In this comic monologue from 1982, the owner of a toy shop in >> Ballater, near Aberdeen telephones the Princess of Wales to ask what >> her son would like for Christmas. >> >> Noo, fit wid he like for his Christmas, the loon? Fit aboot a pair o‚ >> fitba beets? Beets. Beets. B-O-O-T-S, beets. Weel, I ken that, but ../snip/... >> D-U-C-K, duke. A quack quack duke. Like Donald Duke. Donald Duke. He‚s >> a freen‚ o‚ Mickey Moose...Moose...M-O-U-S-E, Moose! God, div ye nae >> understan‚ English, lassie?
I think me sister wah bit be onae eese. Is ears nae long enuff ta be a rrhabbitt, an ah latter nae care fer cheese. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
