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[ILUG-Social] Re: Language usage

[ILUG-Social] Re: Language usage

Niall O Broin niall at magicgoeshere.com
Wed Jun 13 17:34:46 IST 2001


On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:32:19AM -0400, kevin lyda wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 04:18:11PM +0100, John P. Looney wrote:
> > Touching your eyes or delicate body parts afterwards will be painful.
> 
> while i know we all are influenced by popular culture, you do realise
> the naked chef actually is fully clothed while cooking?
> 
> and what's matatui?  and why is it called mince - it's put through a
> meat grinder, therefore it's ground.

It seems reasonable to me (as do all my arguments) that the correct usage of
English on the Irish Linux Users Group mailing list is that prevailing in
Ireland. In Ireland, meat is minced in a mincing machine (sometimes called a
mincer).



Niall




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