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At 12:44 21 October 2020, Martin Gregorie wrote:
Could also tie in with the differences between American and British English, when I was working in NYC in the mid 70s, periodically I'd notice these differences: "Move your ass" was evidently an acceptable way for a New Yorker to ask somebody to make room on a bench or sofa, but would be rude in London. "Oh, bloody hell, Martin!" as a response to a (work) request to use a different approach to a task is/was quite OK in London, but seemed to strike New Yorkers as quite out of order. Well, you have the advantage over me there. But as an Englishman, it was caution about possible cross-cultural differences (on a predominantly American forum) which caused my reticence. J. |
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On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 14:05:15 +0000, James Metcalfe wrote:
At 12:44 21 October 2020, Martin Gregorie wrote: Could also tie in with the differences between American and British English, when I was working in NYC in the mid 70s, periodically I'd notice these differences: "Move your ass" was evidently an acceptable way for a New Yorker to ask somebody to make room on a bench or sofa, but would be rude in London. "Oh, bloody hell, Martin!" as a response to a (work) request to use a different approach to a task is/was quite OK in London, but seemed to strike New Yorkers as quite out of order. Well, you have the advantage over me there. But as an Englishman, it was caution about possible cross-cultural differences (on a predominantly American forum) which caused my reticence. J. Snap! -- Martin | martin at Gregorie | gregorie dot org |
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On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 15:16:13 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 14:05:15 +0000, James Metcalfe wrote: At 12:44 21 October 2020, Martin Gregorie wrote: Could also tie in with the differences between American and British English, when I was working in NYC in the mid 70s, periodically I'd notice these differences: "Move your ass" was evidently an acceptable way for a New Yorker to ask somebody to make room on a bench or sofa, but would be rude in London. "Oh, bloody hell, Martin!" as a response to a (work) request to use a different approach to a task is/was quite OK in London, but seemed to strike New Yorkers as quite out of order. Well, you have the advantage over me there. But as an Englishman, it was caution about possible cross-cultural differences (on a predominantly American forum) which caused my reticence. J. Snap! PS: Personally, I don't like gmail and other globally generic addresses on NNTP because they cancel out a valuable way of working out where somebody is from. They are almost as bad as using the .invalid TLD and not setting up a sig line or two. -- Martin | martin at Gregorie | gregorie dot org |
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