Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 14:53 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:33:51PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 07:57 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 19 April 2006 07:00, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > > > Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 13:50 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > > > >>No. If you look closely, you'll see that I put those symbols
> > > > >>inside of slash marks. That means that they are phonemes,
> > > > >>and the /j/ phoneme indicates a sound similar to the consonantal
> > > > >>"y" in English, as in "yet". As an example of another two words
> > > > >
> > > > > Oh, "j" like "jagermeister"?
> > > >
> > > > Yes, similar, except that should be "Jaegermeister".
> > >
> > > Nope, it's Jägermeister. It's one of my favorite drinks.
> >
> > How do you type "non-American Standard Code for Information Inter-
> > change" characters?
>
> NASCII, obviously. sheesh.
>
> you know, that thing you use to start your NASCAR?!
NASCAR races are soooo boring. Gimme NHRA drag races (top fuel,
of course) any day.
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