Draconian vacation policies for US slave workers
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From: Hatunen on 17 Aug 2006 02:09 On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:26:37 -0700, "Stephen Dailey" <smdailey(a)seanet.com> wrote: >On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:48:18 +0100, The Reid <dontuse(a)fell-walker.co.uk> >wrote: > >> Following up to dgs >> >>> Oh, and Seattle population is barely 600,000; the metro area is less >>> than three million. >> >> i understand it has mountiains too. > >If it hasn't erupted in the last few hundred years That's what they said about mt St Helens up until 1980. >or isn't snow-capped year round, it's a "hill," not a "mountain." ************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen(a)cox.net) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
From: Mxsmanic on 17 Aug 2006 02:51 Tchiowa writes: > You should go to Paris again. The average Parisian speaks only a few words of English--certainly nothing that can be considered useful for communication. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 17 Aug 2006 02:52 Tchiowa writes: > It is *required* for lower level students to learn at a minimum level > and many University degrees require almost fluencyi. The definition of "fluency" is extremely flexible from one country to another. It is very lenient in France. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Dave Frightens Me on 17 Aug 2006 03:23 On 16 Aug 2006 17:11:46 -0700, "Tchiowa" <tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >Dave Frightens Me wrote: >> On 16 Aug 2006 01:40:52 -0700, "Tchiowa" <tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> > >> >The Reid wrote: >> >> Following up to Carole Allen >> >> >> >> >and Europeans can travel between most countries without going through >> >> >any kind of passport control. >> >> >> >> there's no place for common sense in this debate. >> > >> >Plenty of common sense in the discussion. It's your ability to >> >comprehend that is at question. >> >> You're all alone here. No one seems to wants to support your point of >> view, because you are not making sense. > >"No one"? You mean you and a couple of other US bashers who aren't >happy because I pointed out a rather glaring inconsistency in your >position. I suspect you're a bit of a nutcase actually. None of us are US bashers, and you haven't made a solid point yet. >> >> The French speak English in the street, >> > >> >Many do. >> >> Many? Yes, maybe a whopping 1% speak some English in the street. > >You should go to Paris again. There goes your brain again. Paris does not equal France. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: Gorazd Bozic on 17 Aug 2006 03:35
Tchiowa wrote: > > Sorry, but while it may have been used in some circles, *common* usage > didn't happen until the Balkans came apart rather violently in the 90s. People used it often well before the breakup of Yugoslavia. You and your 'circle' heard about it only recently, apparently. Gorazd |