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DTP
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| Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 8:14 pm
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In a restaurant on the chard there are more than one menu.... and this
is my question.
1 menu, 2 menu's? or Menus? or Menues?
Tia
Frans
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Paul Burke
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| Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 8:47 pm
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DTP wrote:
| Quote: | 1 menu, 2 menu's? or Menus? or Menues?
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Menus. Snafus. Jujus. There was only one Xanadu, so no need for a plural. |
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Nick Wagg
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| Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 9:39 pm
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"DTP" <imagemaker@invalid.nl> wrote in message
news:VsSdnZy0DcZg0ljfRVnytQ@casema.nl...
| Quote: | In a restaurant on the chard there are more than one menu.... and this
is my question.
1 menu, 2 menu's? or Menus? or Menues?
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Did you mean that chard is on the menu? 
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Phil C.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:09 pm
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On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 16:39:18 +0100, "Nick Wagg" <naw@transcendata.com>
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| Quote: | "DTP" <imagemaker@invalid.nl> wrote in message
news:VsSdnZy0DcZg0ljfRVnytQ@casema.nl...
In a restaurant on the chard there are more than one menu.... and this
is my question.
1 menu, 2 menu's? or Menus? or Menues?
Did you mean that chard is on the menu?
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Sorry, is that the vegetable or the bloke who fought at Rorke's Drift?
Some unkind military historians would say it that it doesn't make much
difference.
I dimly recall, BTW, that the "Swiss" element of Swiss chard is just a
word suggesting "foreign" - much as we would say "French cricket" or
"double Dutch" etc. But if so, I can't remember where the term
originated.
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Phil C. |
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Molly Mockford
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| Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 12:09 am
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At 17:09:22 on Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Phil C. <philstoxicwaste@fsmail.net>
wrote in <kupac15c53rfe0dh7h3pip9m70o7d5d0lt@4ax.com>:
| Quote: | I dimly recall, BTW, that the "Swiss" element of Swiss chard is just a
word suggesting "foreign" - much as we would say "French cricket" or
"double Dutch" etc.
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Don't start up the Dutch threads again, man!
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Molly Mockford
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin
(My Reply-To address *is* valid, though may not remain so for ever.) |
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DTP
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| Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 1:23 am
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"DTP" <imagemaker@invalid.nl> schreef in bericht
news:VsSdnZy0DcZg0ljfRVnytQ@casema.nl...
| Quote: | In a restaurant on the chard there are more than one menu.... and this
is my question.
1 menu, 2 menu's? or Menus? or Menues?
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Thank you Paul,
altough one word only would have been enough, I saw clearly there are
some lads here, with very little to do )
Well, I'm not, have some menus to create.
Frans |
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Phil C.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 6:46 pm
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On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 19:09:29 +0100, Molly Mockford
<nospamnobody@mollymockford.me.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | At 17:09:22 on Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Phil C. <philstoxicwaste@fsmail.net
wrote in <kupac15c53rfe0dh7h3pip9m70o7d5d0lt@4ax.com>:
I dimly recall, BTW, that the "Swiss" element of Swiss chard is just a
word suggesting "foreign" - much as we would say "French cricket" or
"double Dutch" etc.
Don't start up the Dutch threads again, man!
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Is that advice given with "benevolent firmness"? If so, you're my
Dutch uncle.
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Phil C. |
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Molly Mockford
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| Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 11:06 pm
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At 13:46:28 on Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Phil C. <philstoxicwaste@fsmail.net>
wrote in <mr2dc1d7vvjrfa3bfil897fuj1u8b5s7tp@4ax.com>:
| Quote: | Is that advice given with "benevolent firmness"? If so, you're my
Dutch uncle.
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If the cap fits...
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Molly Mockford
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin
(My Reply-To address *is* valid, though may not remain so for ever.) |
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Arthur
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 3:04 pm
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DTP wrote:
| Quote: | In a restaurant on the chard there are more than one menu.... and this
is my question.
1 menu, 2 menu's? or Menus? or Menues?
Tia
Frans
I think Frans made a typical Dutch mistake by calling the 'menu' the |
waiter gives you the 'chard'.
In Dutch the menu is called 'de kaart'. "Card" is also a word which is
mistakenly used for "menu" by Dutch people.
Arthur |
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Molly Mockford
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 5:39 pm
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At 11:04:37 on Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Arthur <plc@postmark.net> wrote in
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| Quote: | I think Frans made a typical Dutch mistake by calling the 'menu' the
waiter gives you the 'chard'.
In Dutch the menu is called 'de kaart'. "Card" is also a word which is
mistakenly used for "menu" by Dutch people.
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Good point - in French it's the same - on "la carte" there may be
several "menus" at different set prices. But in English we use the word
"menu" for both.
--
Molly Mockford
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin
(My Reply-To address *is* valid, though may not remain so for ever.) |
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DTP
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 8:14 pm
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"Arthur" <plc@postmark.net> wrote...
| Quote: | DTP wrote:
In a restaurant on the chard there are more than one menu.... and
this
is my question.
1 menu, 2 menu's? or Menus? or Menues?
Tia
Frans
I think Frans made a typical Dutch mistake by calling the 'menu' the
waiter gives you the 'chard'.
In Dutch the menu is called 'de kaart'. "Card" is also a word which is
mistakenly used for "menu" by Dutch people.
Arthur
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You think too much.
I am making a menu cart
Within the menus there are different menus, so name that menu 1, menu 2,
menu 3 etc.
Somewhere in my brain existed also the word 'Menues'. At my age and with
my illness it's better not to trust the own brain.
So I asked. And called that thing a chart, to make myself clear, because
I forgot what the original word was.
Now again, the very first answer was enough.
Why this ant-screwing replies?
Frans |
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Molly Mockford
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 8:32 pm
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At 16:14:14 on Sun, 3 Jul 2005, DTP <imagemaker@invalid.nl> wrote in
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| Quote: | Now again, the very first answer was enough.
Why this ant-screwing replies?
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Because this newsgroup is not for questions-and-answers. It is for
discussion of the matters raised. If you have received enough
information to settle your question, that's fine; however, the rest of
us may well still want to exchange ideas related to it. If you don't
like it, don't read it - but everybody's equal here, and you can't tell
people to stop posting on a particular topic.
And if you're going to be so impolite about it, you may find that when
you next ask a question the replies amount to rather fewer than the
single one which you insist is all that you require.
--
Molly Mockford
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin
(My Reply-To address *is* valid, though may not remain so for ever.) |
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Arthur
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 8:39 pm
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Molly Mockford wrote:
| Quote: | At 16:14:14 on Sun, 3 Jul 2005, DTP <imagemaker@invalid.nl> wrote in
MNydnVs0Np1Hb1rfRVnygQ@casema.nl>:
Now again, the very first answer was enough.
Why this ant-screwing replies?
Because this newsgroup is not for questions-and-answers. It is for
discussion of the matters raised. If you have received enough
information to settle your question, that's fine; however, the rest of
us may well still want to exchange ideas related to it. If you don't
like it, don't read it - but everybody's equal here, and you can't tell
people to stop posting on a particular topic.
And if you're going to be so impolite about it, you may find that when
you next ask a question the replies amount to rather fewer than the
single one which you insist is all that you require.
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Just being kind, Frans.
This is how this group works. |
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DTP
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 8:51 pm
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"Arthur" <plc@postmark.net> schreef ...
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Just being kind, Frans.
This is how this group works.
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I didn't find you 'polite'
You were poking your nose into matters.
Typical Dutch
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Einde O'Callaghan
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| Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 4:58 am
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DTP wrote:
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Now again, the very first answer was enough.
Why this ant-screwing replies?
It should be "these". In pointing this out I'm not criticisng you - |
rather, as a teacher of English as a foreign language, I'm correcting an
error that many non-native speakers regulaly make.
Secondly, your image is, I believe, a direct translation from Dutch
(certainly there's a similar phrase in German), but the English
equivalent is "nit-picking".
Regards, Einde O'Callaghan |
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