| Re: [urgent] need solution of Questions, in context of PHP5 [message #171641 is a reply to message #171639] |
Thu, 13 January 2011 14:41   |
sheldonlg
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On 1/13/2011 7:48 AM, Bill Braun wrote:
> On 1/12/2011 10:59 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> Bill Braun wrote:
>>> On 1/12/2011 7:08 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>> Bill Braun wrote:
>>>> > On 1/11/2011 3:22 PM, Luuk wrote:
>>>> >> On 11-01-11 21:07, Bill Braun wrote:
>>>> >>> On 1/11/2011 12:44 PM, Denis McMahon wrote:
>>>> >>>> On 11/01/11 11:23, Abdul Qadir Memon wrote:
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>>> I need [you to tell me the answers to the test I'm taking.]
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> No you don't.
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> Rgds
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> Denis McMahon
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> It strikes me as I read the answers, which for the most part ship
>>>> >>> the OP
>>>> >>> off to Coventry (not without justification), that most everyone is
>>>> >>> missing a decent teaching moment. As long as you are taking the
>>>> >>> time to
>>>> >>> respond, why not take the time to pose a question that would
>>>> >>> provoke a
>>>> >>> little thought in the OP's brain?
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Might fall on deaf ears (or on a sleeping brain) but it would be
>>>> >>> taking
>>>> >>> to ground slightly higher than just poking the OP in the eye with a
>>>> >>> sharp stick.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Bill B
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Coventry, its somewhere in the UK, i think.....
>>>> >> i have never been there, is it nice to go there sometime?
>>>> >>
>>>> >
>>>> > Well, can't say, I've never been there. Had the snot bombed out of it
>>>> > during WWII, and it is a common phrase to mean to banish someone to
>>>> > obscurity, or the like.
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> It means to not listen or talk to them.
>>>
>>> Brits that I have heard use it also give it the meaning of "to
>>> ostracize." English dictionaries seems to lean in the direction of
>>> what you state above.
>>>
>>
>> ostracize *is* to not listen or talk to someone
>>
>>> Bill B
>
> Point well made. I meant to say - but did not - that it implied physical
> removal. Coventry is, I believe, the historical location where prisoners
> were sent during the English Civil War. Is this a good time to add that
> it was also the home of Lady Godiva?
>
> Bill B
....and that is the naked truth.
--
Shelly
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