Jay Johengen
Altamahaw-Ossipee, North Carolina, United States
>>>>A pound money (sterling) £ can be a "nicker", a "quid" (the last 2 only ever used in the singular, eg "twenty nicker/quid") or a "sov" (short for sovereign).
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>>>You make my point. But how about the idea that such informal or dialectic words should not be used in international forums?
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>>It would never work. Impossible with English - there are too many things which don't have words whose first meanings would describe them, so they have to rely on second-third-fourth-nth plus context. You have already used a couple of words in their second (or further) meanings:
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>>"you make my point" - Terry is not the manufacturer of your conical tip
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>>"international" - now used predominantly to mean "foreign" (as in "we ship to international addresses", or "international languages"), while you used it in its obsolete meaning
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>I take international to mean "between nations". This is only a foreign forum in that it belongs to a canuck; it's international in that it is used by people of many nations.
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>"we ship to international addresses" - you have a point - would probably have no real meaning, or be somewhere in the middle of the ocean in many cases :-)
International is anything outside of the good old US of A! <bg> Just like our World News is any news that affects the US.
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