Re: Sinister: shorten any word that's too long!!
Lorraine, there's nothing ludicrous about 'ambulance'. It originally referred to a stretcher used to carry wounded soldiers who had "Fought in a War" (had to get the reference in there somewhere). As the stretcher bearers were walking they were ambulatory, hence 'ambulance'. So the German is obvious and the English is interesting. So there! I think my fave long German word is Strassenbahnhaltestelle, meaning tram stop. I remember a cartoon in my German textbook that had a bank robber (complete with bagful of cash, stripey jumper and mask, natch) approaching a trembling old lady and asking "Wie komme ich am besten zur Strassenbahnhaltestelle?" The German language direclt affects their crime rate. Rob Brennan, is there really a venue in Portsmouth called the Wedgewood Rooms? This conjures up wonderful images of people too afraid to dance or get too drunk for fear of smashing all the china. Who knows, maybe Pompey residents talk about a "mosher in the Wedgewood rooms" rather than a bull in a china shop. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
Hello. For some reason (completely unknown, as are most things that influence my life) I can only remember the following bits of Kraut: Hauptbahnhofschnitzel: Mainline railway station lightly coated in breadcrumbs and fried for half an hour, Autoschlusselhosen: Khaki trousers (think about it), and Ich bin ein unterwasserpanzerfahrer mit zenf: I am an underwater tank driver with mustard. God only knows how I got an A at GCSE. B&S content: I'm still listening to FYHCYWLAPFGRTCEXGBTVKTBN&%BH&^V*FNBI^T$$. It's still good. lol p xx. -- -----------------------------*||*-------------------------------- "I was never one to try I was never any good, was I?" - The Field Mice, "The Last Letter" Pete Ramsdale - Unix Systems Administration, UBS Warburg. Phone: 020 7568 3836 -----------------------------*||*-------------------------------- Visit our website at http://www.ubswarburg.com This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes and should not be construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or related financial instruments. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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