Oasys Recording Challenge ..."You Can't Undo This"

[Arend Groot]

The acronyms I commonly read and have "absorbed" are these :

FWIW : for what it's worth
IIRC : if I remember correctly
IMO : in my opinion
IMHO : in my humble opinion
LOL : laugh out loud

Daz.

Thanks Charlie and Daz for this nice off topic

[kenackr]

Daz,

You're correct.

Wasn't it Churchill who said something like "the only thing that divides Britain and the U.S. is our language"?

[Daz]

It's true and something I have come to appreciate more since I came to live here. I thought I already knew all the small differences from literature, the media and Americans I had met. I have discovered many more differences in the mean time !

My current favourite is the still mysterious "quarter of" in relation to the time of day. I had never heard of this, so enjoyed the novelty of it, but the best was yet to come. On one occasion I heard a friend using it whilst speaking to someone else, and later asked them "Does 'quarter of' mean quarter past or quarter to ?" They weren't entirely sure, and in fact a number of people I have spoken to subsequently aren't sure either, and yet I hear it fairly regularly. I can only assume it is an older expression that people might use emulating their parents or grandparents subconsciously. I find things like that fascinating

Another favourite is "Faucet", a great word in comparison with our humble "tap".

...I heard a friend using it whilst speaking to someone else...

Whilst we are speaking of the decline of the language...

My American wife finds it highly amusing whenever I write or say "whilst" (which I do regularly). To her ear it is as archaic as "thee" or "thou". I never really thought about it, but now that I do it does seem rather quaint.

[Daz]

The acronyms I commonly read and have "absorbed" are these :

FWIW : for what it's worth
IIRC : if I remember correctly
IMO : in my opinion
IMHO : in my humble opinion
LOL : laugh out loud

Daz.

Thanks Charlie and Daz for this nice off topic

You're welcome ! Or as I am guilty of writing too often : HTH. Which is 'hope that helps'.

Daz.

[Mike Conway]

WTF is up with all these SNAFUs? This place is becoming FUBAR! And to think that we all say, O.A.S.Y.S. like it is a word!

Personally, I like the way the English use quotes, with the unquoted punctuation (periods, commas) outside of the quotes. I now write like this, because it makes sense, but I want people to know that I know the difference. Americans put the punctuation inside the quotes because of how the old printing presses were configured.

Example:

He said, "call me", if I want the car fixed. That's how it should be, because the comma is not part of the quote. But, the American way is:

He said, "call me," if I want the car fixed. This is complete rubbish and just colours the meaning.

By the way (I mean, BTW), Daz is beyond most people. I think the guy is a genius, literally.

[Charlie]

@Arend: Sorry

@Daz: Thanx!



Well, I know some of these and I quite often use IMHO myself - but I never came across IIRC.

BTW (hehe ) one of the reasons some of the "foreign" people know English quite well might be this one: they have to learn English with their kids for the next big examination in school!!!

(Unfortunately they don't teach IIRC&Co. in school ... yet )

[kenackr]

Charlie,

OK, this is your examination: Who was the lone ranger?