Tristan Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Fri, 04 Jun 2004 15:53:23 +0100: > Then of course American English developed its own idioms and useage > patterns independently from those developed in the UK (eg pissed: in the > UK it means drunk, in the US it means angry).
And in Australia, you have to grok it from context. Damn you both! -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ "The application did not fail successfully because of an error" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]