| Re: [urgent] need solution of Questions, in context of PHP5 [message #171639 is a reply to message #171636] |
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On 1/12/2011 10:59 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 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.
>>
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> ostracize *is* to not listen or talk to someone
>
>> Bill B
Point well made. I meant to say - but did not - that it implied physical
removal. Coventry is, I believe, the historical location where prisoners
were sent during the English Civil War. Is this a good time to add that
it was also the home of Lady Godiva?
Bill B
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