Klarinet Archive - Posting 000207.txt from 2000/10

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Language - A Viewpoint
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 08:29:44 -0400

I was just being over-concise -- "blackbird Leys" bus might be my local
(Oxford)
equivalent of "Clapham omnibus", which, again, is where the terribly
ordinary Englishman-in-the-street could be found in London.
It's an even more obscure (?) adaptation of an English journalistic
cliche.
Roger S.

On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, William Wright wrote:

> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 05:03:31 -0700 (PDT)
> From: William Wright <Bilwright@-----.net>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Language - A Viewpoint
>
> <><> "Pregnant" is not the most usual meaning - "copulated with"
> is what the average man on our Blackbird leys omnibus would take it to
> mean. Her hosts seem to have been ignoring the context rather
> considerably, though.
>
>
> Oh! Well, this is a perfect example of what can go wrong during
> Internet conversations. I doubt I would've told the story here if I'd
> known that detail. For all these years, no one has ever come forward
> to tell me this.
> The end of the story is heartwarming, however. My daughter and her
> host family became close friends. They have visited and stayed with my
> daughter and her family here in the U.S. every fourth or fifth year.
> There are two words in your post that I don't recognize:
> "Blackbird" and "leys". When I was reading, I assumed that you are
> referring to a dictionary of some sort amd I moved on. Depending on the
> details again, I could be missing an important point just because we
> live in different subcultures.
>
> This really has been an excellent demonstration of the potential
> pitfalls of Internet communication. If you add a simple 'translation'
> error to an otherwise peaceful discussion, you can end up with an
> explosion.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Bill
>
>
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