... How did he stop being a native speaker? ;-) ... The first thing your client should know is that native speakers usually don't know the capitalization...
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Simon Vollam
vollams
Mar 3, 2003 12:50 pm
Hi Tomas, I would use managing director or chief executive officer (CEO). Doubtless there are other possibilities, but IMO "director general" is less common, ...
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Simon Vollam
vollams
Mar 3, 2003 1:02 pm
Hi again, I'm not aware of any fixed rules, but my instinct would be to use capitals. I can't really explain why, except to say that it looks better. Others...
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JPKIRCHNER@...
Mar 3, 2003 1:08 pm
... A perfect example of Czech using a salutation where English would not came to me over there when a bank VP asked me how to say "vazeni zakaznici" in ...
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melvyn.geo <zehrov...
melvyn.geo
Mar 3, 2003 1:54 pm
... Neither can I. In written speeches, I feel that odd-looking openings like "Dear Friends" can be made to look slightly less odd if you write: "My dear...
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JPKIRCHNER@...
Mar 3, 2003 2:01 pm
... Or you can just go with that old standby, "You May Already Be a Winner!" I once saw a cartoon of a hotdog opening his mail, and the letter began, "You may...
14436
PSS Praha - Coilin O&...
coilin.oconnor@...
Mar 3, 2003 2:10 pm
... to ... It ... using ... I actually don't find "Dear Customers" wholly inappropriate here. I am also pretty sure that in Dublin etc. less "bald" notes...
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melvyn.geo <zehrov...
melvyn.geo
Mar 3, 2003 3:26 pm
... Hmmm, not wholly inappropriate, just rather unlikely IMHO. I am also ... I wouldn't expect anything _quite_ as flowery but of course you are just...
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Martin Janda
mysakjerry
Mar 3, 2003 3:45 pm
Re D.C. being (in)appropriate, are you talking about just door signs etc, or about addressing clients in business letters as well? I guess the most frequent is...
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coilin_oconnor <co...
coilin_oconnor
Mar 3, 2003 9:50 pm
... are just exaggerating to emphasize a point, er right? :) ... OK maybe it's a little OTT, but I do think there are places and situations where signs are...
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Lucie Formankova <...
lucinka_f
Mar 3, 2003 10:19 pm
Hi, does anybody know the proper legalese word for the above term? I found "parasitism" in Chroma's Law Dictionary, and got a few hits for it on Google (among...
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Jirka Bolech
jirka.bolech@...
Mar 3, 2003 10:30 pm
A bit more on my iPAQ: I've never used the battery's capacity to its full potential. It didn't even seem to discharge much faster when I took it with me while...
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Michael Trittipo
michaltrittipo
Mar 3, 2003 10:56 pm
Maybe the closest in AE would be what used to be considered the "crime" of vagrancy -- moving about without any visible means of support. See, e.g.,...
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melvyn.geo <zehrov...
melvyn.geo
Mar 3, 2003 10:58 pm
... Hello Lucie, The great age of my Poldauf/Pynsent dictionary (published 1986) might actually come in useful here: Prizivnictvi: [prav.] social parasitism I...
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Michael Trittipo
michaltrittipo
Mar 3, 2003 11:01 pm
Speech on vagrancy, from 1893: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5308/...
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Michael Trittipo
michaltrittipo
Mar 3, 2003 11:13 pm
... Maybe not so far. See, e.g., http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/faqs.htm for current FBI use of "vagrancy," the classical (common law, pre-statutory or ...
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Michael Trittipo
michaltrittipo
Mar 3, 2003 11:28 pm
And, not to make it an AE/BE thing, http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00157-04.asp (reference to prevention of crimes and vagrancy); ...
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melvyn.geo <zehrov...
melvyn.geo
Mar 3, 2003 11:46 pm
... 'Vagrancy' is certainly a good idea too, particularly when applied to people with an itinerant lifestyle. The problem for me is that most people do...
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coilin_oconnor <co...
coilin_oconnor
Mar 3, 2003 11:58 pm
... to people with an itinerant lifestyle. The problem for me is that most people do associate it with vagabondage and wandering around, whereas I have been a...
14449
melvyn.geo <zehrov...
melvyn.geo
Mar 4, 2003 12:36 am
... I was following on from Coilin's ATM and had banks uppermost in my mind. In letters and circulars, I think the singular is most likely to be used. ... ...
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coilin_oconnor <co...
coilin_oconnor
Mar 4, 2003 1:07 am
I was just wondering what any local foodies who might still be awake would make of the following: Tournedos s cesnekovou omackou podavane s TESTOVINOVYMI...
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Michael Trittipo
michaltrittipo
Mar 4, 2003 1:21 am
ccmc> I wonder if AE statutebooks are quite as quaint (I particularly ccmc> like "incorrigible rogue") On some of these crimes, yes. "Sleeping out" is a heck...
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Matej Klimes
mklimes@...
Mar 4, 2003 1:31 am
Hi Coilin, ... TESTOVINOVYMI HNIZDY - too lazy to go up and look up the Italian name, but they are the flat pasta that comes in nest-like balls in the packet...
14453
coilin_oconnor <co...
coilin_oconnor
Mar 4, 2003 2:17 am
... name, but ... packet (is it ... Thanks Matej, Tagliatelle is indeed the man I am looking for :-) Best regards Coilin...
14454
JPKIRCHNER@...
Mar 4, 2003 3:04 am
... A little what? ... I can easily see something similar to that, but your example is over the top (I think). ... One thing I noticed in the UK last summer...
14455
Jaroslav Hejzlar
jarda237
Mar 4, 2003 5:39 am
Dear listmates! How would you translate the following sentence into Czech? "All materials left in booth without instruction will be packed and snipped at the...
14456
Martin Janda
martinjanda22
Mar 4, 2003 7:31 am
Coilin, sorry for making troubles while you are comfortable with what proposed, but I am afraid tagliatelle is what you would call "tasticky"; in Czech or maybe...
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Matej Klimes
mklimes@...
Mar 4, 2003 7:49 am
Hi Martin, I think we'll have to do a Czechlist meeting or two at an Italian place to bring you up to date on Italian pasta. Tagliatelle being rice noodles?...
14458
Matej Klimes
mklimes@...
Mar 4, 2003 7:55 am
Late night last night again, .... I suddenly realized I'm not sure which one I'm supposed to use as a general replacement of Windows, Linux, etc. Google seems...
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Martin Janda
martinjanda22
Mar 4, 2003 8:08 am
If you will be happy with MS jargon only, then it's solely "operating" system. No idea what Pinguins call their stuff. You win with the pasta thing - I checked...
