Hey everyone, thanks for the awesome gifts, appreciated as always. I hope I have sent you something that you can use! Special thanks to BT, the Ligo you sent cut Liz's one off at the pass. Not as far to travel? I am just stoked to finally have that froggie for my catalogue, I've nearly finished reworking the whole thing in black chroma, but that one was driving me nuts! I hope you both enjoy the presents in return.
That's interesting. I wonder why. Are alot of words that end with "er" for us (USA) re for you (UK) ? I have enough trouble with spelling and the english language, I would hate to see what I would do with THE ENGLISH language. BTW , PC what do the "symbols" mean in your plus+ status ?
@Domenic15!!!!! Oh. My. God. I saw your status, and I flipped out!!! I know it's not that big of a deal, but I once got a request for a Cocos Pruni Nimbilis as well! I have just stumbled upon a jaw-dropping discovery!! Either it was the most tremendous coincidence or there are a certain amount of request frogs in the database! Cool! P.S. Do you still need it?
Because many of us Kiwis are descended from good English settler stock, and we are still part of the British Commonwealth, with Queen Elizabeth II as our head of state, we also use 'British' English as opposed to 'American' English, and there are quite a few differences like that. Metre (and consequently, kilometre), catalogue, and alumiNIUM are ones that spring to mind. I've always figured that America just has to be different, asserting your independence. It's why you drive on the wrong side of the road, and have your own system of weights and measures as well, right? But we know what you mean...
I actually read somewhere that American English was closer to how the English language used to be and that uk English ( nz too) had evolved further away from it's roots. I don't know how accurate this is but that's my ten pence worth or ten cents worth depending on what side of the pond your on. I don't know what the nz equivalent would be for 'ten pence worth'
Ah, that's something we have in common with our American cousins. Dollars and cents. We've had decimal currency since 1967. Did away with pounds, shillings, pence, farthings, sixpence, all of that. So it's 'ten cents' worth'. Actually, we decimalised our weights and measures at the same time. Much easier, and I only learned the decimal units at school (1 litre of water weighs 1kg etc), so I have no real clue about most of the old imperial systems. I find them incredibly confusing.
I am going to get dinner; Spaghetti which is an Italian dish made with Chinese noodles and have a German beer with it. Sorry I am not a big fan of wine unless it is ChocoWine which is Dutch. And who said that I am not international. Happy breeding and hopping.
Thats interesting to know. We still used both imperial and decimal for weights and measures here which is bit confusing really I suppose. we are probably just used to it.
