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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:	The Joy of Lex
Notice:	A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:	THEBAY::SYSTEM

Created:	Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:	Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1192
Total number of notes:	42769

772.0. "What a country!" by COOKIE::DEVINE (Bob Devine, CXN) Thu Feb 08 1990 20:56

    The changes in the Soviet Union remind me of that country's
    emigrant to the US -- Yakov Smirnov (sp?) whose act includes
    some English phrases that seem quite silly to a foreigner
    just learning the language.  This note continues in that
    spirit of identifying such usages.
    
    Example:
    	corn seed
    	flower seed
    	but, bird seed ?

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
772.1	Diet Coke?	LESNET::KALLIS	Pumpkins -- Nature's greatest gift.	`Thu Feb 08 1990 22:22`	7
	A relative oldie: Caffine-free Calorie-free Pepsi Free. Steve Kallis, Jr.
772.2	cabbage patch	LAMHRA::WHORLOW	Are you proud of Digital's computers?	`Fri Feb 09 1990 04:11`	24
	G'day, I've not lately seen a horse fly, nor a house fly (despite the weather) old joke (?) man to breeder : I want 3000 chicks please. next day man to breeder : I want another 3000 chicks please. next day man to breeder : I want 3000 chicks please. breeder - What? I've sold you 6000 already! man : they died. But i've realised what is wrong... I'm planting them too close together. derek
772.3	Lost dog	SHARE::SATOW		`Fri Feb 09 1990 15:38`	7
	There is a phrase in my children's book "Lady and the Tramp" that I would love to see translated, and I would hate to have to explain: Lady soon found herself lost. Clay
772.4		TKOV51::DIAMOND	This note is illegal tender.	`Wed Jul 04 1990 06:50`	6
	And the guy whose French horn was stolen: he wanted to play it, but found it gone. (But the singer of this ditty was in the wrong country for the topic of this note.)