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"Bastette" wrote in message
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Judith Latham wrote:

On 6/22/2013 2:50 PM, Christina Websell wrote:

This evening I went down there to water and picked a whole lot of
strawberries which I will enjoy tomorrow.
Summer finally arrived last week and it's quite hot

That's a lovely thing to be able to do.

Quite hot? It's killing me.

I had to stop and think about this because at first it didn't make sense.
That's because to us over here, "quite" means "very", "to a great extent",
etc, and I think to you it means something like "moderately", or even "a
little bit"?. I didn't know this until recently - I probably learned it
here.

Funny you should say that, I had to ask an American on my poultry group at
the time, Bob Tarte, about the difference between "quite" in
English/American. It's very different. After that we became good friends.
If I say something is quite nice it's not as good as nice, and nowhere near
very nice.
Tweed

"Bastette" wrote in message
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Christina Websell wrote:

If the worst comes to the worst and your home computer dies, get another
one
from the internet like I just did.
OK, it was *pre-owned* but it has been refurbished and cost ?59.99 plus
postage, add to that a tenner to get things copied from my old one by
the
computer shop and a whole lot of grief getting the newsgroups set up.

Wow!! 59.99 in your currency is about $120 in US dollars, I think, which
is incredibly cheap for a computer! Good deal!

It's higher spec than my old one, 2gb memory, 250gb HD which is plenty
for
me as I only use it for emails, newgroups and surfing.
I was thinking of getting a brand new one until I saw the prices!

Why would you bother when you can get a decent one for such a low price?

I am very happy with it. My previous one was a Dell but no way would I want
to spend as much as they cost for a new one from their website. You cannot
buy Dells in the shops here.
If it lasts me 4 years it's still a bargain and with 2gb memory, it's faster
and with 250gb HD it suits me. My last one was half GB/40 and gave me good
service.
I don't want or need a computer with all bells and whistles with 1TB of HD
etc. I'm thrilled with the one I've got.

Tweed

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"Christina Websell" wrote:
"Lesley" wrote in message
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On Saturday, 22 June 2013 06:58:56 UTC+1, Joy wrote:
For the last few days, no posts here have shown up on my computer. I'm
sure people are posting, and hope I start seeing the posts again soon.

I've been out of commission for a few days. Been flat out busy at work
having got back from leave last Monday to find the software had gone
down
so no-one had even been able to help with my work whilst I was off.

And now my home PC is on the blink, hoping it won't be a case of
replacing
it as I've had several large bills recently and don't want another one
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If the worst comes to the worst and your home computer dies, get another
one
from the internet like I just did.
OK, it was *pre-owned* but it has been refurbished and cost £59.99 plus
postage, add to that a tenner to get things copied from my old one by the
computer shop and a whole lot of grief getting the newsgroups set up.
It's higher spec than my old one, 2gb memory, 250gb HD which is plenty
for
me as I only use it for emails, newgroups and surfing.
I was thinking of getting a brand new one until I saw the prices!

My last computer was similar to this and it has lasted 4 or 5 years. The
computer shop transferred my floppy disc drive to this one too, as I
still
have things saved on floppies.
So, if you need another computer, it doesn't have to cost you a fortune.

Tweed

It may be a good idea to copy your floppies to a memory stick for when
your
drive dies.

why would it die?

On 8/22/2013 6:37 PM, Christina Websell wrote:

It may be a good idea to copy your floppies to a memory stick for when
your
drive dies.

why would it die?


Old age is the most likely reason, these things are designed with a
typical service life, once you get beyond that life, then there's an
increasing risk of failure. USB drives are so cheap now and offer
capacities so far beyond a single floppy that it makes sense to back the
data up. For example, an 8GB USB drive costs less than 2 pounds on
Amazon UK and could hold the contents of roughly 4000 floppy disks.

--
Nik Simpson

On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 00:19:23 +0100, Christina Websell wrote:

"Bastette" wrote in message
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Judith Latham wrote:

On 6/22/2013 2:50 PM, Christina Websell wrote:

This evening I went down there to water and picked a whole lot of
strawberries which I will enjoy tomorrow.
Summer finally arrived last week and it's quite hot

That's a lovely thing to be able to do.

Quite hot? It's killing me.

I had to stop and think about this because at first it didn't make
sense. That's because to us over here, "quite" means "very", "to a
great extent",
etc, and I think to you it means something like "moderately", or even
"a little bit"?. I didn't know this until recently - I probably learned
it here.

Funny you should say that, I had to ask an American on my poultry group
at the time, Bob Tarte, about the difference between "quite" in
English/American. It's very different. After that we became good
friends. If I say something is quite nice it's not as good as nice, and
nowhere near very nice.
Tweed

There's an old joke, describing Britain and the USA as "two countries
divided by a common language". I had a college room-mate who was from
Hong Kong, and thus spoke British English. We sometimes had to explain
to each other what a particular idiom meant.

One bit of American English-vs.-Chinese idiom was when I referred to cold
air giving me goosebumps. When I explained, he laughed and said the term
for that condition in Cantonese translated as "chicken skin", virtually
the same metaphor.

--
John F. Eldredge --
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"John F. Eldredge" wrote in message
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There's an old joke, describing Britain and the USA as "two countries
divided by a common language". I had a college room-mate who was from
Hong Kong, and thus spoke British English. We sometimes had to explain
to each other what a particular idiom meant.

One bit of American English-vs.-Chinese idiom was when I referred to cold
air giving me goosebumps. When I explained, he laughed and said the term
for that condition in Cantonese translated as "chicken skin", virtually
the same metaphor.
--
John F. Eldredge --

~~~~~~~~
My roommate when I was an undergraduate was a Fulbright Scholar from
Germany. She said that she felt she was beginning to fully the language
when she realized that she was dreaming in English.

MaryL