Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 21:48:56 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Greetings, Earthlings! Take me to your Jordan. (Re: Greetings from San Francisco Downtown) Message-ID: <19990901214856.C278@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <19990901204944.B20A8A0@woodstock.monkey.net>; from Jon Hamilton on Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 03:49:44PM -0500 References: <19990901183414.F283@marder-1> <19990901204944.B20A8A0@woodstock.monkey.net>
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On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 03:49:44PM -0500, Jon Hamilton wrote:
>
> In message <19990901183414.F283@marder-1>, Mark Ovens wrote:
>
> } Greetings from the ground (US:first) floor of my house in Chippenham, England
>
> ``Ground floor'' is also in common use in the US. Saying ``ground floor''
> will confuse very few people here,
When I visited the US (OK, it was 19 years ago) it always seemed
to be called the first floor.
> whereas the phrase ``knocked me up''
> has a completely different meaning here and may get you either blank
> stares or gasps of astonishment :)
>
I presume you mean in the context of "...knocked on the door and
woke me up". It also has another meaning, although the woman
concerned would be unlikely to describe it that way.
Of course the phrase "Can I bum a fag" *most definitely* has
different meanings here and there ;-)
> --
> Jon Hamilton
> hamilton@pobox.com
>
>
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