Thought for the day

[Flato, Gillian]

If someone in the U.K. offers you a fag, they are offering you a cigarette.

Thank you,
 

Gillian Flato
Technical Writer (Software)
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-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Lea Rush
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:33 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Thought for the day

And don't refer to your waist pouch as a fanny pack. More offended looks ...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-
> bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Allison
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:03 AM
> To: Syed.Hosain at aeris.net
> Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: Thought for the day
> 
> As does rooting for your team, in Australia. Expect a few startled looks,
then
> grins . . .
> 
> In case anyone wonders about the tech-writing aspect of this discussion,
it's the
> many tricky highways and byways of localization even within the English
> language.
> 
> --Nancy
> 
> On May 27, 2010, Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net)
> <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net> wrote:
> 
> And ... offering to give someone a ride in your car in the UK has quite a
different
> connotation from the use in the US. :)
> 
> Z
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