| Re: [urgent] need solution of Questions, in context of PHP5 [message #171635 is a reply to message #171618] |
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On 1/12/2011 7:08 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> Bill Braun wrote:
>> On 1/11/2011 3:22 PM, Luuk wrote:
>>> On 11-01-11 21:07, Bill Braun wrote:
>>>> On 1/11/2011 12:44 PM, Denis McMahon wrote:
>>>> > On 11/01/11 11:23, Abdul Qadir Memon wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> I need [you to tell me the answers to the test I'm taking.]
>>>> >
>>>> > No you don't.
>>>> >
>>>> > Rgds
>>>> >
>>>> > Denis McMahon
>>>>
>>>> It strikes me as I read the answers, which for the most part ship
>>>> the OP
>>>> off to Coventry (not without justification), that most everyone is
>>>> missing a decent teaching moment. As long as you are taking the time to
>>>> respond, why not take the time to pose a question that would provoke a
>>>> little thought in the OP's brain?
>>>>
>>>> Might fall on deaf ears (or on a sleeping brain) but it would be taking
>>>> to ground slightly higher than just poking the OP in the eye with a
>>>> sharp stick.
>>>>
>>>> Bill B
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>>> Coventry, its somewhere in the UK, i think.....
>>> i have never been there, is it nice to go there sometime?
>>>
>>
>> Well, can't say, I've never been there. Had the snot bombed out of it
>> during WWII, and it is a common phrase to mean to banish someone to
>> obscurity, or the like.
>>
>
> It means to not listen or talk to them.
Brits that I have heard use it also give it the meaning of "to
ostracize." English dictionaries seems to lean in the direction of what
you state above.
Bill B
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