Re: Windows Rant



On 13/07/10 19:44, Amedee Van Gasse (ub) wrote:
On Tue, July 13, 2010 01:32, Patton Echols wrote:
Res wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:


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language. In Dutch we have two words:
"gezin" = the small family group that you live with in the same house
"familie" = the group of all your relatives

In English they both translate to 'family'. It seems that the English

I think that this is the most important cause of the current confusion.
What I intended to say was, quality time with my wife (=my family,
"gezin" in Dutch) is more important than fixing the computer of the
husband of my sister (= also family).


"immediate family" (husband/wife/mother/father/brother/sister) is what
it's called here, some friends in England also refer to it as same.


Also known as "nuclear family". As in the center of an atom . . . and
with the same consequences when you try and split one!
Ay, there's the rub. In English you need an adjective to specify what you
mean. Ugh. Foreign languages give me headaches. Why can't we all speak
Mathematics? That's an universal language.
Well yes and no. Remember there are different naming conventions/notations for the same operators and symbols in maths across the world.

I guess the short answer is diversity - get used to it ;-)

...and yes english is a crap language the generalises itself to death so it needs many composite words to make the meaning more precise.

it's also an evolving language with meaning dialiects.

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