Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.) (was: Re: Movie 'n Book recommendations by Curt)

2017-04-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-04-01, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 01 April 2017 18:11:12 Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2017-03-31, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> >> (...) >> >> > We are part of the same sovereign state, but 4 nations. >> >> When you consider some of the Irish, yes. Most Irish people live in a >> different sovere

Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.) (was: Re: Movie 'n Book recommendations by Curt)

2017-04-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 01 April 2017 18:11:12 Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2017-03-31, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > (...) > > > We are part of the same sovereign state, but 4 nations. > > When you consider some of the Irish, yes. Most Irish people live in a > different sovereign state. Agreed!!! But the United Kingdo

Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.) (was: Re: Movie 'n Book recommendations by Curt)

2017-04-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-03-31, Lisi Reisz wrote: (...) > We are part of the same sovereign state, but 4 nations. When you consider some of the Irish, yes. Most Irish people live in a different sovereign state. -- Liam

Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.)

2017-04-01 Thread GiaThnYgeia
Lisi Reisz: > On Friday 31 March 2017 22:53:00 kAt wrote: >> As there is a domination of the >> industrial North and elitism against the dominated South. > > Not here The non-industrial white collar south-east dominates the > industrial north economically. The Northern Powerhub is so far a

Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.)

2017-03-31 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 31 March 2017 22:53:00 kAt wrote: > As there is a domination of the > industrial North and elitism against the dominated South. Not here The non-industrial white collar south-east dominates the industrial north economically. The Northern Powerhub is so far a figment of the politi

Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.)

2017-03-31 Thread kAt
Eike Lantzsch: > it is e.g.: > date -d thursday > or: > date -d next-thursday > or: > date --date='TZ="America/Asuncion" 09:00 next Thu' > or > calendar -w -t 20170406 TZ='London' date | grep "Universal Time"

Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.)

2017-03-31 Thread kAt
Curt: > Trouble with you people is you don't get out on some of the other days > of the week. Us people who? >> English is hilarious It must be the only language in the world that you can adequately communicate with a vocabulary of less than 400 words including grammatical forms of the same root

Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.)

2017-03-31 Thread kAt
Lisi Reisz: > And let us clear up another misunderstanding while we are at it. The other > side of the pond you appear to be under a delusion that there is such a thing > as British anything, including English. Try telling that to the Welsh, the > Irish and the Scots! There is nevertheless

Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.) (was: Re: Movie 'n Book recommendations by Curt)

2017-03-31 Thread Curt
On 2017-03-31, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > For whatever it's worth, here in Ohio, "next Thursday" would mean the > Thursday that occurs in the next calendar week. "This Thursday" means > the Thursday that occurs (or occurred) in the current calendar week, > though you'd need to use the past tense wh

Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.)

2017-03-31 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 31/03/17 14:34, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 31 March 2017 14:04:03 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >> To specify the Thursday before the last Thursday, use something like: "the >> Thursday before last Thursday". >> >> To specify the Thursday after the coming Thursday, use something like: "the >> Thu

Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.)

2017-03-31 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Friday, 31 March 2017 10:43:50 -04 Stefan Monnier wrote: > I tried "aptitude install Thursday" and that failed miserably. > Then I tried with `apt-get`: same result. > > The worst part is that I get the same kinds of failures when I try > "aptitude install this Thursday" or "aptitude install ne

Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.)

2017-03-31 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 31 March 2017 15:43:50 Stefan Monnier wrote: > I tried "aptitude install Thursday" and that failed miserably. > Then I tried with `apt-get`: same result. > > The worst part is that I get the same kinds of failures when I try > "aptitude install this Thursday" or "aptitude install next Thu

Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.) (was: Re: Movie 'n Book recommendations by Curt)

2017-03-31 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 31 March 2017 15:15:46 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, March 31, 2017 09:34:26 AM Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 31 March 2017 14:04:03 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > To specify the Thursday before the last Thursday, use something like: > > > "the Thursday before last Thursday".

Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.)

2017-03-31 Thread Stefan Monnier
I tried "aptitude install Thursday" and that failed miserably. Then I tried with `apt-get`: same result. The worst part is that I get the same kinds of failures when I try "aptitude install this Thursday" or "aptitude install next Thursday". Stefan "confused about this Debian thing" >>

Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.) (was: Re: Movie 'n Book recommendations by Curt)

2017-03-31 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Friday, 31 March 2017 10:18:24 -04 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, March 31, 2017 09:45:59 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 02:34:26PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > Great - all fine in theory. But you try announcing a meeting that > > > way!!! > > > Here in England we

Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.) (was: Re: Movie 'n Book recommendations by Curt)

2017-03-31 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, March 31, 2017 09:45:59 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 02:34:26PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Great - all fine in theory. But you try announcing a meeting that way!!! > > Here in England we debate it, meaning that I and my husband disagree. > > When I say "next Thur

Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.) (was: Re: Movie 'n Book recommendations by Curt)

2017-03-31 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, March 31, 2017 09:34:26 AM Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 31 March 2017 14:04:03 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > To specify the Thursday before the last Thursday, use something like: > > "the Thursday before last Thursday". > > > > To specify the Thursday after the coming Thursday, use som

Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.) (was: Re: Movie 'n Book recommendations by Curt)

2017-03-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 02:34:26PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Great - all fine in theory. But you try announcing a meeting that way!!! > Here in England we debate it, meaning that I and my husband disagree. When I > say "next Thursday", I mean the Thursday next week. When he says next > Thur

Re: OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.) (was: Re: Movie 'n Book recommendations by Curt)

2017-03-31 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 31 March 2017 14:04:03 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > To specify the Thursday before the last Thursday, use something like: "the > Thursday before last Thursday". > > To specify the Thursday after the coming Thursday, use something like: "the > Thursday after next Thursday". Great - all fin

OT: speaking of days (weeks, months, years, etc.) (was: Re: Movie 'n Book recommendations by Curt)

2017-03-31 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, March 31, 2017 06:30:25 AM Terence wrote: > There is no ambiguity if (as I have always understood) "Thursday" means > "this (or the coming) Thursday" and "next Thursday" or "Thursday next" > means "a week on Thursday". > > And having lived in Yorkshire for two very happy years, I would