| Re: [urgent] need solution of Questions, in context of PHP5 [message #171636 is a reply to message #171635] |
Thu, 13 January 2011 03:59   |
The Natural Philosoph
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Bill Braun wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>
ostracize *is* to not listen or talk to someone
> Bill B
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