Re: ACCIDENT, body shop, legal, ASL???

[Ben Baldridge <bbaldrid@ael.com>]

At 03:15 PM 7/3/97 -0500, you wrote:
>-- [ From: Huw Powell * EMC.Ver #3.1a ] --
>
>>> ...And woe betide you if they think it was deliberate...
>
>>You Brits make me smile. :-)
>Now what did you say that the language you speak is called?
>
snip!
>
>England and America are two countries separated by a common tongue - was it
>Churchill who said that?  Having had to learn "American" as a second
>language (took fifteen years), I would beg to submit that while Americans
>are still stuck with most of the "Imperial" measurement system they created
>their own language long ago...
>
>Huw Powell
>HUMAN Speakers
>http://www.thebook.com/human-speakers
>

Actually, I believe it was Oscar Wilde who said that England and America are
two countries separated by a common language. And I think he said it during
one of his lecture trips here.

Wow, not bad for an engineer! (don't anyone dare start that thread again!)


Ben Baldridge
Antenna Laboratory
Tracor Aerospace Electronic Systems, Inc.