[Debconf-discuss] [OT] [OT] Can you repeat, please?
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 08:36:39PM +0100, Tim Retout wrote: On 10 August 2010 19:26, Luca Capello wrote: Basically, given that I am not an English native speaker, I tend to make errors, thus sometime the person in front of me does not understand. I found out that she/he replies to me with different expressions, used AFAIK without any preference WRT her/his origin. Until now, I have found three of them: "say what?", "what's that?" and "say it again", the first two being a word game Biella, Zack and me started the last days after I explained the above to both of them. "Say what?" definitely sounds US English. I wouldn't use the other two either. Your basic four UK responses are as follows, in descending order of politeness: "Pardon?", "Sorry?", "Come again?", "What?". For bonus points, elaborate: "I beg your pardon, what did you say?" "I'm terribly sorry, come again?" If all else fails, add more self-deprecation and explanation: "I'm afraid I didn't quite hear, would you mind awfully repeating that please?" This actually happened to me in New York with someone asking for money. It seemed somewhat unfair not to give it to them at that point, after making them repeat themselves so many times. In Denmark we say "Hvad?" or "Hvadbehager?" (like english "What?" or "What, please?"). We tend to swallow endings of most words, however (described by other scandinavians as their language with a hot potato in the mouth). Thus what we spit out really is "Hva'?" (like english "huh?") or "Hva' ba'?". A friend of mine teaching danish to refugees told me some years ago that a student came to him wondering why when trying out his newly taught danish expressions in a bus or on the street, people would respond "Whopper!". - Jonas Amazed (but not proud) of my own mother tongue -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] cdn.debian.net
Hi there! I guess this discussion should continue on debian-mirrors@, if you drop debconf-discuss@ please Cc: me. On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 08:07 -0400, Hideki Yamane wrote: > On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 22:00:40 +0900 > Yasuhiro Araki wrote: > > Thank you for requesting cdn.d.n updating request. > > I just has added mirror.cc.columbia.edu to list of cdn.debian.net. > > How's your feeling about cdn.debian.net, nice? bad? I am very happy with that, especially because as Joey wrote you do not need to tweak anything while traveling. > Please give back your feeling/idea to Yasuhiro Araki , he > really > wants *your* voice (to keep "motivation", "communication" is important, > right? :-) I cannot do anything more than thanking Araki-san for this service, which I hope will become official ASAP. BTW, since we are at it, I am now in Boston (71.232.13.26) and I think cdn.debian.net does not pick up the nearest mirror, which I guess is the MIT one (traceroute hops and mirror FQDN in parenthesis): = l...@gismo:~$ host cdn.debian.net cdn.debian.net is an alias for deb.cdn.araki.net. deb.cdn.araki.net has address 149.20.20.135 (12 mirrors1.kernel.org) deb.cdn.araki.net has address 149.20.20.135 deb.cdn.araki.net has address 64.50.236.52 (more than 30, last one is 13 chcgildtcor53-giten9-1.network.tds.net) deb.cdn.araki.net has address 64.50.236.52 deb.cdn.araki.net has address 128.59.59.71 (14 teewurst.cc.columbia.edu) deb.cdn.araki.net has address 128.59.59.71 deb.cdn.araki.net has address 128.226.116.176 (more than 30, last one is 9 66.162.73.26) deb.cdn.araki.net has address 128.226.116.176 l...@gismo:~$ = FWIW, `traceroute debian.lcs.mit.edu` (rocky-mountain.csail.mit.edu, 128.30.2.36) gives me only 8 hops. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] RCBC - results and prizes
On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:24:57 -0400, micah anderson wrote: > > - send an email with your snail mail address to mi...@debian.org, and > > he will ship the prizes to you > I'm leaving in two days for the other side of the country, and wont be > back until the 25th of the month. I do not anticipate having time to > send out *anything* until I return. Don't expect an email from me > either. Thanks for the info. Perfectly fine for me -- enjoy your vacations, you deserve them! Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `-BOFH excuse #227: Fatal error right in front of screen signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] [OT] Can you repeat, please? (was Re: Thank you, organizers and volunteers and everyone)
Hi Andreas! On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 22:07 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 02:26:00PM -0400, Luca Capello wrote: > > Until now, I have found three of them: "say what?", "what's that?" and > > "say it again", the first two being a word game Biella, Zack and me > > started the last days after I explained the above to both of them. > > Wunderbar! I really missed you and I am sure you would have used this /wonderful/ (pun intended) expression at the end of the Van Cortlandt Track Club bi-monthly 5km cross-country summer race: http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20100806.222131.da0e887a.en.html > SCNR Is this another expression (this time German) I am not aware of? ;-) Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] [OT] Can you repeat, please? (was Re: Thank you, organizers and volunteers and everyone)
Hi there! On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 20:36 +0100, Tim Retout wrote: > > Until now, I have found three of them: "say what?", "what's that?" and > > "say it again", the first two being a word game Biella, Zack and me > > started the last days after I explained the above to both of them. > > "Say what?" definitely sounds US English. I wouldn't use the other two > either. > > Your basic four UK responses are as follows, in descending order of > politeness: [...] Thank you Tim, I thought that given your elaborate reply we have enough material for a wiki page: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/CanYouRepeatPlease Adnan, you can now create a similar DebConf11 wiki page ;-) Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] [OT] Can you repeat, please? (was Re: Thank you, organizers and volunteers and everyone)
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 01:45:09PM -0400, Luca Capello wrote: > > Wunderbar! > > I really missed you and I am sure you would have used this /wonderful/ > (pun intended) expression at the end of the Van Cortlandt Track Club > bi-monthly 5km cross-country summer race: > > http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20100806.222131.da0e887a.en.html I really enjoyed Christian's report and it's a real pity that I was unable to join - specifically the DD running in a kilt might have beaten the DD with kilt taking a bath in Argentina in winter time. ;-) Any links to photos of your performance??? Wunderbar! > > SCNR > > Is this another expression (this time German) I am not aware of? ;-) Yes. The German translation is something like "Kilt wearing Italians are doing strange things all over the world". See you next year Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] uploaded slides cannot be downloaded
Hi, On Donnerstag, 5. August 2010, Michael Schultheiss wrote: > The schedule export at penta/dc10_schedule/ doesn't include everything > that's at the logged-in version at... I consider this a bug, where to file it, so we can track+fix it? cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] Travel sponsorship BoF topics/attendance request
Hi, On Donnerstag, 5. August 2010, Pablo Duboue wrote: > I set up a gobby document on gobby.debiant.net under 414 Schapiro. The > name is dc10-bof-travel-sponsorship. Is this document or any other result (like a summary what you discussed) from that BoF somewhere available? cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] uploaded slides cannot be downloaded
Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Donnerstag, 5. August 2010, Michael Schultheiss wrote: > > The schedule export at penta/dc10_schedule/ doesn't include everything > > that's at the logged-in version at... > > I consider this a bug, where to file it, so we can track+fix it? It is a bug - the penta queue in RT would be a good place to track it. ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] Lost Garmin "ANT+" USB communication device
Quoting John Goerzen (jgoer...@complete.org): > That's was great! Bleh, you lucky John who can't yet have your own son making fun of you in public mailing list. Beware, that time will come, man:-). I'd recommend *not* teaching too many things to Jacob to avoid this Merci, JB, for finding my ANT+ communication device, by the way! (sent from Cape Cod, where we had today the immense pleasure to see dozens of whales boucing around us in a tremendous whales-watching trip) ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] [OT] Can you repeat, please? (was Re: Thank you, organizers and volunteers and everyone)
Quoting Andreas Tille (andr...@an3as.eu): > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 01:45:09PM -0400, Luca Capello wrote: > > > Wunderbar! > > > > I really missed you and I am sure you would have used this /wonderful/ > > (pun intended) expression at the end of the Van Cortlandt Track Club > > bi-monthly 5km cross-country summer race: > > > > http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20100806.222131.da0e887a.en.html > > I really enjoyed Christian's report and it's a real pity that I was > unable to join - specifically the DD running in a kilt might have beaten > the DD with kilt taking a bath in Argentina in winter time. ;-) > Any links to photos of your performance??? There's only one photo of it, AFAIK, and it's still on my laptop, travelling through USA with jerky net connections. And my gallery is still stuck (I can't upload photos to it!). So you may have to wait. ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] Lost Garmin "ANT+" USB communication device
On 08/11/2010 09:07 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting John Goerzen (jgoer...@complete.org): > >>That's was great! > > Bleh, you lucky John who can't yet have your own son making fun of you > in public mailing list. Beware, that time will come, man:-). I'd > recommend *not* teaching too many things to Jacob to avoid this Heh. Hats off to JB for sending the funniest message to debconf-discuss I've seen this year. Jacob is already making fun of me in his own 3-year-old way. He just doesn't have a mail reflector behind him yet... ;-) Sample conversation: Me: "Jacob, it's time to take off your pants so you can use the toilet." Jacob: "Dad, these aren't PANTS. They're SHORTS!" ... a few minutes later ... Jacob: "Mom, dad called these PANTS. They're really SHORTS. Isn't that silly?" I can totally see him being an ftpmaster one day... ;-) > (sent from Cape Cod, where we had today the immense pleasure to see > dozens of whales boucing around us in a tremendous whales-watching > trip) Very nice! (As an aside, I was talking to a man on a sailboat in Nantucket Sound via amateur radio last night. He said it was a beautiful evening up there, and would have been just a few miles from you. I'm a bit jealous, as our power went off here, the temperatures are still hot, and we have no air conditioner without power...) -- John ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
