[Spambayes] FW: SpamBayes

[Jesse Pelton]

As long as we're off-topic, there is some truth to the idea that people
from the USA speak "American."  George Bernard Shaw observed that
"England and America are two countries separated by a common language."
For instance, you'll get a very different response from young women in
the two countries when you tell them you'll knock them up in the
morning.  (In the U.S., you're likely to get knocked down instead.)
Less colloquially, U.S. and British sports fans both enjoy football, but
the games they watch have very little to do with each other.

In the spoken language(s), many Americans have quite a hard time
understanding the pronunciation and vocabulary of various British
dialects (especially rural ones), and I imagine the same goes for
English folk in the American countryside.

See http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/ for amusing and
enlightening commentary.

By the way, if I haven't said so before, I admire your English.

-----Original Message-----
From: spambayes-bounces at python.org [mailto:spambayes-bounces at python.org]
On Behalf Of Amedee Van Gasse
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 4:19 PM
To: emu
Cc: Spambayes
Subject: Re: [Spambayes] FW: SpamBayes

Op za, 14-10-2006 te 21:06 +0100, schreef emu:
> So
> 
> Does no-one from Spambayes ever answer questions?

Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. :)
Just be patient...

Sometimes "regular" users happen to know the answer too, and ar willing
to help. That's the advantage of a community of peers.

> So - it is Flemish not Dutch!  Please forgive me

This is getting off topic... :)
That's like saying people from the USA speak "American".
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language for details.

--

Amedee Van Gasse
amedee at amedee.be


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