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Senors, Senoras y Senoritas Aqu en el Reino Unido, Microsoft ha decretado que debemos escribir al menos cuatro mensajes a la semana en uno de los nuevos lenguajes que sustituir en todas las lenguas antiguas en existencia. Estos son los nuevos Google Idiomas. Todas las traducciones ahora sern...

WELL - COME ON, JIMBO !!! I've gone to all that trouble, stting up a new thread for ya and it's not had ONE SINGLE VISITOR - Except me, of course. So come on - get off your assets and make some noise, guys...

Da Iawn, Dafydd, Da Iawn yn gyd....... I have to ask, in these days of Universal software driven translators - was that you or Google (no shame at all in the second, for instance, it's nice to be able to add a phrase or two to International Buyers on eBay in their native language, even when...

I was introduced into this "Vale of Tears" in 1949 and I always reckoned that being Eleven in 1960 was just about spot on. We still had 11 Plus so I (only just) avoided the unholy mess that went under the name of "Comprehensive Education" and the various experimental theories that made...

So what is a Baby Boomer ? Some friends and I had an argument about this. He contends that it is anyone born on or after Jan 1st 1960 and on or before December 31st 1969 - In other words, any year where the Year started with "196x" ANOTHER friend contends that it is anyone born in the 196 th...

Shakespeare. Merlin

No sooner said than done, Jimbo. Merlin

boring pedants But that's the whole point of the thread, really. My position is that being pedantic about one's own posts is dependent largely on one's early education and particularly the importance given by one's family in the home.My Mum was"keeper of the Civilising Influence" on the...

Belated happy birthday, wynona. Seeing as how I didn't have an invitation to your party, I didn't feel obliged to buy you a gift. Just a little hint for next year. Merlin

Renaming files If all I need is a quick and dirty fix and I'm happy with filenames like "batman" followed by a sequential file number such as "001" then I use Photoshop Elements Seven. It has a multiple file utility that will read any imasge file and change the filenames to your choice...

Thanks for the heads up, ztruker. No matter how many bits of software I download, I am still caught out on occasions by failing to deselect crappy toolbars, new home pages and so on. Merlin

I only asked because my Forum spellcheck's turned off as most of the forums on which I post seem to have a English(US) database. I don't think that you'll find the standard of written English any better on a UK Forum than on a US Forum, actually. Merlin

Thanks Golden

Completely agree - but I feel it's even WORSE than that !! While walking into town last week, there were two guys in front of me having a loud conversation about some colleagues of theirs. One of them said to the other :- "So now, of course, he thinks that he is next in line for the Area...

I agree, and I think it goes back to my point about bad spelling vs. Typos, I think, Paul. The bad spelling always puts my teeth on edge and, where it's egregiously bad it detracts from whatever points the poster is trying to put across. It's like a subset of Marshall McLuhan's "The medium is...

(you could also have included Nature and Education on the same basis - LOL.) I know - I knock them back to lower case when I spot them, but they sort of creep up on me. It's only since I've been posting on Forums that it's been happening, this (mis) use of Capital Letters on what my...

The ebay forums are a particular example. The demise of the old "q&a" board winnowed out some of the worst of the offenders, but newbies often need thick skins when starting a thread. Apart from the "Englsh as she is spoke" issue there also are people who don't recognise the difference between...

Jody, with my many flaws, a sense of humour is not just a character attribute - it's a necessity !! Merlin

Thanks Popeye. As to the "Dork" question - I can't tell you, 61 was too far back in my past for me to remember what it was like. Merlin

Firstly I am by Nature, upbringing and Education a Pedant. Simply put a Pedant means nothing more than "Teacher" and originally carried no connotations of OCD like behaviour on the part of anyone so labelled. It runs in the Family. My Brother (who resides in Cleveland, Ohio) is also a Pedant...