Wings After Sopel

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:01:32 -0400, Thomas <wharry DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:

>> Are these the countries that have significant NHL participation?
>
>The US is the only relevant country in the world that has a significant
>NHL participation.

I'm trying to infer what "relevant" means here. So "relevant" in
this newsgroup isn't about the NHL.

So what *does* make a country "relevant"? Relevant to what subject
at issue? The Avalanche? I see the Subject line is "Re: Wings
After Sopel".
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:06:56 GMT, "Grande Mal" <ironwrkr.DeleteThis@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Yeah, right, 'our', like everyone in the US speaks the same dialect.
>There're Americans that can barely understand each other. You think that
>somewhere in that Babel-some mish-mash is the 'correct English'?

The U.S. actually has more consistent English than the UK or even
England does.

>You're not going to like this, but the purest form of the English language,
>without accent or dialect, is spoken in western Canada. If you challenge me
>on this, it's probably gonna take awhile to find the citation but when I do
>you're gonna owe me.

What does "pure" mean in this context?
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"Thomas" <wharry RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Howard Brazee wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:05:22 -0400, Thomas <wharry RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> The whole world is full of people who speak English as a second
>>>> language - in countries that are "relevant".
>>> Well, the "whole world" isn't filled with relevant countries. There are
>>> only four. There may be a fifth sometime in the next 20 years. We'll see
>>> how they do.
>>
>> Are these the countries that have significant NHL participation?
>
> The US is the only relevant country in the world that has a significant
> NHL participation.

Still baiting, I see. A lifelong hobby, I suppose.

Paul
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Howard Brazee wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:01:32 -0400, Thomas <wharry.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> Are these the countries that have significant NHL participation?
>> The US is the only relevant country in the world that has a significant
>> NHL participation.
>
> I'm trying to infer what "relevant" means here. So "relevant" in
> this newsgroup isn't about the NHL.

No, relevant to the world. There are four countries that are relevant to
the world. This thread is off topic, so don't think that it has to have
anything to do with hockey.

Of the four relevant countries in the world, the US is the only one with
a significant NHL participation. Another of the four has had a couple
players make it, and a third has had one player make it and play a
couple games.

-Thomas
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"Paul L" <kbtrans.RemoveThis@qwest.net> wrote in message
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> OK, now that we've cleared that up, my favorite english
> is the stuff that appears when english has been translated
> to japanese, and subsequently (by someone else) translated
> from the japanese back to english. I've seen this on a couple
> of lyric sheets for records and it's pretty amusing.
>
> cheers
>
> Paul

One day someone with time on his hands will compile a compendium of
mis-translations. It'll be great, an immediate best-seller.
I once worked unloading a container crane off a ship that had been built in
Shanghai.The crane, I mean, not the ship. As you walked out on the catwalk
on the boom of the crane there weas a series of cross-braces to duck under
and each one had painted on it, "No Hitting You Head". For some reason, I
like that.
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