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Originally Posted by Wallalai
Swiss cheese is good, not great. French cheese "sucks".
ignorant yankee ? ? ?:nerner:
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wallalai
Swiss cheese is good, not great. French cheese "sucks".
ignorant yankee ? ? ?:nerner:
I think the real reason is that french is too bloody difficult.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lily
I thought it was because it makes you sound like a poof when you speak it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fabian
most thai men sound like pooves when they speak english too. i have never heard one speak french though
You definitely don't know much about cheese. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by ceburat
NB.
These words may have huge social consequences, especially when uttered by expats in Thailand.
No Beer...
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Originally Posted by Wallalai
That may be correct in your small mind.:kma:
I just heard it in a meeting at work today though.
NB product = Notebook product
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i don't think so GOW.
i always thought it meant note below.
that works for me.
I thought French was the international language until after WWII when the USA became so renowned and made it English.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lily
Thats what I thought.
I thought French and English were competing for that status until, perhaps, Indochina became independent - in the 1970s.
Is Philadelpia cream Cheese really from Philadelphia ?
French was the international language of diplomacy while English was the international language of commerce. Guess which one was more important. The British Empire was the largest commercial empire the world has ever seen and pretty much everywhere you went in the world there was likely to be at least an imperial trading post. These days people do learn English so they can go to or trade with the USA but it's been the most important international language since long before the USA was a powerful player on the world stage.Quote:
Originally Posted by cali kid
Native English Speaking Countries or Countries Where English is an Official Language
Antigua and Barbuda
Australia
Bahamas
Barbados
Beliza
Botswana
Brunei
Cameroon
Canada
Dominica
Ethiopia
Fiji
Gambia
Ghana
Grenada
Guyana
India
Ireland
Israel
Jamaica
Kenya
Kiribati
Lesotho
Liberia
Malawi
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritius
Micronesia
Namibia
Nauru
New Zealand
Nigeria
Pakistan
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Philippines
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Swaziland
Tanzania
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tuvalu
Uganda
United Kingdom
United States
Vanuatu
Zambia
Zimbabwe
^And a fair percentage of that list had some colonisation or early trade history with the UK, not the USA.
Yes, that was my point. They're almost all ex-colonies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lily
And in the 19th and early 20th century, the language of science was German.
hehe makes it all the more fun to use it. Nothing like a good "ibid" or the occasional "proximo" or "ultimo" in a letter to make an official feel dumb.Quote:
Originally Posted by William
Do we have to explain i.e. too?
It can be anything, depend on where you are using it methinks.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon
In the meeting we talked about ...2.5" NB product... so what should it be? We are HDD manufacturer so it's 2.5" Notebook product for sure.
It may come as a surprise for you and your work mates but those 2.5" HDD's are used in soo many other applications than notebooks :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Goddess of Whatever
Why don't you just call them for what they are, 2.5" HDD?
Vanuatu has nice postage stamps.
Perhaps your confusing NB with PSQuote:
Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon
Nota Bene
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