On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 01:52:11 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Roy Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>> We live in an international world (otherwise we wouldn't need that
>> annoying unicode stuff). When you say, "effort to be understandable",
>> what you're really saying is, "everybody should be just like me".
>>
>> Unfortunately, that's not going to happen. Or maybe fortunately, since
>> variety and exploring different cultures is part of what makes life
>> interesting.
>
> That said, though, there are a few phrases that we all learn to avoid.
> I'm used to talking about "knocking up" a rough prototype, but when I
> started communicating internationally more, I consciously started saying
> "knocking together" instead, to avoid confusing certain groups of
> people...
>
> ChrisA
still no chance of bumming a fag then?
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