musings on session service mgmt

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jan 4 18:11:21 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 09:01 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2008 8:39 AM, David Zeuthen <davidz at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Sorry, I'm not from around here. And last time I played Monopoly, I
> > guess some 15-20 years ago, the USD was actually twice as much to the
> > DKK than it is today.
> 
> Which makes the use of the phrase all that more interesting.. in a
> very off-topic sort of way.  Does US consumer culture have a
> ...monopoly... on widely adopted popular culture?  It makes me a
> little sad to think that it might. I was hoping interacting with a
> global community, even if we are doing it in Englishese, I'd get a
> chance to vacuum up some useful, badly translated and out-of-context
> colloquial phrases from other cultures.
> 
> -jef"was really hoping the global internet community would develop a
> pidgin language that looks more like Card's battle school pidgin and
> less like aol-speak"spaleta

you're gathering a jeesh even now, ne? :)

-sv





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