Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/19

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Subject: [Leica] BD Colen and the English Language
From: leicagalpal at earthlink.net (Kit McChesney)
Date: Sun Sep 19 16:11:09 2004

And isn't 'surmise' a verb? I've never seen that one noun-ified before. ;-)

Kit 

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From: lug-bounces+leicagalpal=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+leicagalpal=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Marc James Small
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 4:00 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: [Leica] BD Colen and the English Language

At 10:51 AM 9/17/04 -0400, B. D. Colen wrote:
>Well I'm sure glad it's a reliabir camera, but I really wish that it had
>digital capabilities.
>
>And can someone explain to me how major global companies such as Nikon,
>Leica, and Olympus, can continue in this day and age to produce
>marketing materials in pideon English? Truly bizarre.


Uh, BD, we normally communicate on the LUG in English.  Just what would be
a "reliabr" camera or "pideon" English?

I presume that you intended to write "reliable" on the first, though the
context is a bit odd, and "pigeon" or, more properly, "pidjin" English for
the second.

Are my surmises accurate?

Marc


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Replies: Reply from jcb at visualimpressions.com (JCB) ([Leica] RE: Marc and the English Language)
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