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  1. Original post
    Eugenio Mastroviti
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    Cycling back from the Finchley Lido multiplex at about 23:15, yesterday,
    I've had the opportunity to observe for a few seconds the behaviour of two
    definitely strange urban animals, one quite common, the other almost
    extinct...

    First a blue car passed us so fast I couldn't even discern the model. It
    was actually so fast, and passed so close, that the slipstream made me
    swerve rather hard. I wonder if the driver is one of those that whinge
    about "going over the limit only three times in five years, and losing my
    licence for three small mistakes".

    The other, which one would think should be almost extinct by now, if
    nothing else for the sheer evolutionary pressure it should be subjected
    to. We had just stopped at a red light when we saw coming towards us
    (therefore going the wrong way for the lane he was in, what's the exact
    term in English?) a make teenager on a BMX, with no lights. He crossed
    with the red light and turned to his left (wrong lane again) into the
    exit from the North Circular.

    There were no large red splotches on the North Circular this morning, so I
    assume he survived his stunt. I wonder what he'll do when he's old enough
    to drive a car, though...

    Eugenio

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  2. Eugenio Mastroviti
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    On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 10:42:16 +0100, Eugenio Mastroviti wrote:

    That should be "Saturday night idiots" - I tend to lose track of time
    during weekends 🙂

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  3. Nick Kew
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    In article <[email hidden]>,

    Eugenio Mastroviti said:

    That should be "Saturday night idiots"

    So this is Sunday Morning Idiots? :-)

    I had that trouble when I started learning Italian. "Sabato" sounds
    like the religious dat, so has to be Sunday, right? Erm ....

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  4. Eugenio Mastroviti
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    Nick Kew said:
    Quoted message said:

    That should be "Saturday night idiots"

    So this is Sunday Morning Idiots? :-)

    Looks like it, doesn't it? 🙂

    Quoted message said:

    I had that trouble when I started learning Italian. "Sabato" sounds
    like the religious dat, so has to be Sunday, right? Erm ....

    Erm, no, it's Saturday ("Shabbat"😉. Sunday is Domenica, from Latin
    "Dominus" (Lord)

    Blast. It gets confusing after that, you guys could have had at least the
    good taste to keep the same gods as the Romans. I mean, if you're naming
    one day after the goddess of love, you could very well have kept Venus
    (Venerdi'😉 instead of reverting to Freya (Friday)...

    Eugenio

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  5. Helen Deborah Vecht
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    Eugenio Mastroviti <[email hidden]>typed

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    There were no large red splotches on the North Circular this morning, so I
    assume he survived his stunt. I wonder what he'll do when he's old enough
    to drive a car, though...

    What do you expect when the London Borough of Barnet has scrapped cycle
    training?? ;-)

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  6. David Martin
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    On 8/8/04 12:51 pm, in article
    [email hidden], "Eugenio Mastroviti"

    Quoted message said:

    Blast. It gets confusing after that, you guys could have had at least the
    good taste to keep the same gods as the Romans. I mean, if you're naming
    one day after the goddess of love, you could very well have kept Venus
    (Venerdi'😉 instead of reverting to Freya (Friday)...

    But that would be confusing. We have Woden and Thor so why not Freya?

    ...d

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  7. Robert Bruce
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    mae <[email hidden]> wedi ysgrifennu:

    Quoted message said:

    On 8/8/04 12:51 pm, in article
    [email hidden], "Eugenio Mastroviti"

    Quoted message said:

    Blast. It gets confusing after that, you guys could have had at
    least the good taste to keep the same gods as the Romans. I mean, if
    you're naming one day after the goddess of love, you could very well
    have kept Venus (Venerdi'😉 instead of reverting to Freya (Friday)...

    But that would be confusing. We have Woden and Thor so why not Freya?

    ..d

    But why Saturday (Saturn) then? That was the point.

    BTW, Welsh
    Dydd Llun
    Dydd Mawrth
    Dydd Mercher
    Dydd Iau
    Dydd Gwener
    Dydd Sadwrn
    Dydd Sul

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  8. Helen Deborah Vecht
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    David Martin <[email hidden]>typed

    Quoted message said:

    On 8/8/04 12:51 pm, in article
    [email hidden], "Eugenio Mastroviti"
    <[email hidden]> wrote:

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Blast. It gets confusing after that, you guys could have had at least the
    good taste to keep the same gods as the Romans. I mean, if you're naming
    one day after the goddess of love, you could very well have kept Venus
    (Venerdi'😉 instead of reverting to Freya (Friday)...

    Quoted message said:

    But that would be confusing. We have Woden and Thor so why not Freya?

    Quoted message said:

    ...d

    Not to speak of Tiw.

    Moon day is moonday/ lunedi.

    Of course, since most of us don't worship these deities, we could do as
    they do in Israel and number all days apart from the Sabbath.

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  9. Helen Deborah Vecht
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    "Robert Bruce" <[email hidden]>typed

    Quoted message said:

    mae <[email hidden]> wedi ysgrifennu:

    Quoted message said:

    On 8/8/04 12:51 pm, in article
    [email hidden], "Eugenio Mastroviti"

    Quoted message said:

    Blast. It gets confusing after that, you guys could have had at
    least the good taste to keep the same gods as the Romans. I mean, if
    you're naming one day after the goddess of love, you could very well
    have kept Venus (Venerdi'😉 instead of reverting to Freya (Friday)...

    But that would be confusing. We have Woden and Thor so why not Freya?

    ..d

    Quoted message said:

    But why Saturday (Saturn) then? That was the point.

    Quoted message said:

    BTW, Welsh
    Dydd Llun
    Dydd Mawrth
    Dydd Mercher
    Dydd Iau
    Dydd Gwener
    Dydd Sadwrn
    Dydd Sul

    So it's more like French except at weekends then, isn't it?

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    Edgware.

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  10. Whingin' Pom
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    On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 14:02:52 +0100, Helen Deborah Vecht

    () said:
    Quoted message said:

    ...d

    Not to speak of Tiw.

    Moon day is moonday/ lunedi.

    Of course, since most of us don't worship these deities, we could do as
    they do in Israel and number all days apart from the Sabbath.

    Thanks for the "most of us". As one who still does, I appreciate that.
    :-)

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  11. Roos Eisma
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    David Martin said:

    But that would be confusing. We have Woden and Thor so why not Freya?

    Where I keep going wrong in Englsih is with 'next'. For me, next Wednesday
    is the next Wednesday, the next one coming up. So I usually arrive a week
    earlier than everybody else....

    Roos

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  12. Velvet
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    Roos Eisma said:
    David Martin said:

    But that would be confusing. We have Woden and Thor so why not Freya?

    Where I keep going wrong in Englsih is with 'next'. For me, next Wednesday
    is the next Wednesday, the next one coming up. So I usually arrive a week
    earlier than everybody else....

    Roos

    Interesting. I'm regularly caught out by people who do that too,
    whereas I use *this* wednesday to be the one just coming, and *next* to
    be the one after that... causes no end of confusion when people say next
    meaning the one coming - but I always thought I was in the minority of
    using this to be the one coming...

    Velvet

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  13. Eugenio Mastroviti
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    Roos Eisma said:

    Where I keep going wrong in Englsih is with 'next'. For me, next Wednesday
    is the next Wednesday, the next one coming up. So I usually arrive a week
    earlier than everybody else....

    LOL I though it was just me!

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  14. Robert Bruce
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    mae <[email hidden]> wedi ysgrifennu:

    Quoted message said:
    Roos Eisma said:
    David Martin said:

    But that would be confusing. We have Woden and Thor so why not
    Freya?

    Where I keep going wrong in Englsih is with 'next'. For me, next
    Wednesday is the next Wednesday, the next one coming up. So I
    usually arrive a week earlier than everybody else....

    Roos

    Interesting. I'm regularly caught out by people who do that too,
    whereas I use *this* wednesday to be the one just coming, and *next*
    to be the one after that... causes no end of confusion when people
    say next meaning the one coming - but I always thought I was in the
    minority of using this to be the one coming...

    Velvet

    "This Wednesday" and "Next Wednesday", AFAIK, are the same thing. The
    correct term for the *following* Wednesday is "Wednesday Week" (also the
    name of a song by the Undertones), but I suspect that this usage is becoming
    archaic.

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  15. Robert Bruce
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    mae <[email hidden]> wedi ysgrifennu:

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    BTW, Welsh
    Dydd Llun
    Dydd Mawrth
    Dydd Mercher
    Dydd Iau
    Dydd Gwener
    Dydd Sadwrn
    Dydd Sul

    So it's more like French except at weekends then, isn't it?

    French is derived mainly from Vulgar Latin. Welsh is mainly derived from
    Ancient British, but many things that the Romans introduced to these islands
    are reflected in Welsh. The days of the week are an obvious example, but is
    also seems that there were no windows in Britain before the Romans arrived
    (Welsh: fenestr, French: fenetre), no bridges (Welsh: pont, French: pont),
    no schools (Welsh: ysgol, French: ecole) and no-one was sad (Welsh: trist,
    French: triste). Of course, the main influence on Welsh for centuries has
    been English, but most languages are under this pressure now, which is why
    Welsh feels that it has a symbolic role to play in the preservation of
    cutural diversity - if Welsh, living cheek by jowl in both a physical and a
    cultural sense with England can survive, then so can other languages and
    cultures.

    O bydded i'r hen iaith barhau!

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  16. Gawnsoft
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    On 08 Aug 2004 20:27:40 GMT, Roos Eisma <[email hidden]> wrote (more
    or less):

    Quoted message said:
    David Martin said:

    But that would be confusing. We have Woden and Thor so why not Freya?

    Where I keep going wrong in Englsih is with 'next'. For me, next Wednesday
    is the next Wednesday, the next one coming up. So I usually arrive a week
    earlier than everybody else....

    I'd arrive at the same day as you, Roos.To refer to the second
    Wednesday, I'd use 'a week on Wednesday'.

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  17. Richard Bates
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    On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 21:39:26 GMT, in
    <[email hidden]>, Gawnsoft

    Quoted message said:

    On 08 Aug 2004 20:27:40 GMT, Roos Eisma <[email hidden]> wrote (more
    or less):

    Quoted message said:
    David Martin said:

    But that would be confusing. We have Woden and Thor so why not Freya?

    Where I keep going wrong in Englsih is with 'next'. For me, next Wednesday
    is the next Wednesday, the next one coming up. So I usually arrive a week
    earlier than everybody else....

    I'd arrive at the same day as you, Roos.To refer to the second
    Wednesday, I'd use 'a week on Wednesday'.

    I much prefer to say Wednesday the xxth

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