[s-cars] Re: POS source, now: Whatsa POS?

Igor Kessel igor at s-cars.org
Thu Mar 11 10:32:03 EST 2004


lebakken1 at netzero.com wrote:

> -- Igor Kessel <igor at s-cars.org> wrote:
> bob.rossato at att.net wrote:
> 
> 
>>Power Output Stage, or Piece Of Shit.  Both apply.
> 
> 
> Bob,
> this is one exemplary comprehensive answer. Rivals those professional 
> laconic one-liners of my good friend and fellow lister Stefan Richter. :)
> 
> English is a very efficient language when properly applied.
> 
> Example: my wife's six bottles of shampoo in our shower. French and Spanish take twice as many characters as English does in telling me what I am putting on my hair. Not that I spend alot of time on this, just an observation.......
> 
> I now have two definitions for "POS". I only hope, that when applied to my new garage queen, it is the ONLY one.
> 
> Craig Lebakken
> 94 S4
> 

Ain't that the truth, Craig! And you don't even want to see its 
equivalent in Russian, with those kilometre-long words in funny 
characters that no one else uses. :)

I prefer English whenever I need to get the point across in the most 
laconic yet concise manner. No cases, no declensions, few syllable 
words, rigid order in the sentence, simple grammar... a linguistic dream.

-- 
Igor Kessel
two turbo quattros


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