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 Just wondering...
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06/16/13 06:11 AM
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Why is it you drive on a parkway and you park on a driveway????
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Re: Just wondering...
[Re: 4x4Wire]
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06/17/13 03:18 AM
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Why is it you drive on a parkway and you park on a driveway???? Little bored?
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Re: Just wondering...
[Re: Jim_Paget]
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06/17/13 04:33 AM
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Because we speak English, and it's not logical, just very large and flexible. For example, rough, tough, cough, through, thorough - pronounced ruff, tuff, cawf, threw, thurow. English would greatly benefit from phonetic spelling...
And then, we have Southern, an entirely different language...
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Re: Just wondering...
[Re: fasteddy]
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06/17/13 06:50 AM
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And then there is the Atlantic Seaboard versus the West Coast.
That is derived from English which refered to the coast as the seaboard.
Meanwhile, the west coast is based on the Spanish word "costa".
So, the east reflects Englsh heritage while the west reflects Spanish heritage in terms of language and naming of places.
English if a fascinating language.
Where else can you produce produce???
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Re: Just wondering...
[Re: 4x4Wire]
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06/17/13 10:28 PM
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I think it was CHesterton who said that the English and the Americans have everything in common except language...
You can say things in English in one or two words that take 5 or 6 in French. Look at the French translation of wing flaps, for example. The Germans just go stringing words together to make a new one. I had a German language owner's manual for a 79 Mercedes 280TE gas engine wagon, and when I got the English translation one, it was about half the size, with all the same stuff in it.
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Re: Just wondering...
[Re: fasteddy]
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06/18/13 04:05 AM
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I think the longest word in existence is a German word. They really do just stick them together. 
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Re: Just wondering...
[Re: stony-man]
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06/18/13 08:43 AM
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I've learned some words are strung together as the description in German. The literal translation for a carberator is 'fire gas'.
Am still wondering why they put braille on the keypad of a vending machine, when you can't see the product, myself.
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Re: Just wondering...
[Re: kewlynx]
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06/18/13 07:23 PM
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Am still wondering why they put braille on the keypad of a vending machine, when you can't see the product, myself. 3 letters... A D A
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Re: Just wondering...
[Re: kewlynx]
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06/19/13 04:50 AM
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"Am still wondering why they put braille on the keypad of a vending machine, when you can't see the product, myself."
An even more intriguing question -- Why is there braille on the drive-up teller/ATM machines???
Yeah, say what you want about ADA, there are places where it does beg the question of "Why???"
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Re: Just wondering...
[Re: 4x4Wire]
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06/19/13 08:31 AM
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An even more intriguing question -- Why is there braille on the drive-up teller/ATM machines???
Yeah, say what you want about ADA, there are places where it does beg the question of "Why???" That's an easy one. It's basically the same model teller machine as a walk up ATM so it has the Braille keypad.
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