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Yeah, I read him as meaning second person singular (tha), and second person plural (you). Some parts of the north east also distinguish, using 'you' for second person singular and 'yous' you second person plural, which I think it also a feature of some southern American english.
 
I was trying to help someone understand Scots the other day. Now I understand why it is considered another language by some. There are some places over here where I say they should consider how people in some areas talk a separate language.

In my experience in the south I have never heard someone seriously use you. Maybe it is a yank thing. They talk really word, especially in New England and such. There are some regions I have limited exposure to in the south, so maybe it is one of those.
 
rygD said:
I was trying to help someone understand Scots the other day. Now I understand why it is considered another language by some.
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Yeah, Scots is way cooler. :) Would have learned Scots in school instead of English, if only I had known about it then and it would have been offered.

rygD said:
There are some places over here where I say they should consider how people in some areas talk a separate language.

In my experience in the south I have never heard someone seriously use you. Maybe it is a yank thing. They talk really word, especially in New England and such. There are some regions I have limited exposure to in the south, so maybe it is one of those.
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I didn't get any of those sentences. o_O
I thought, New England was in the Northeast of the USofA.?
 
rygD said:
I was trying to help someone understand Scots the other day. Now I understand why it is considered another language by some. There are some places over here where I say they should consider how people in some areas talk a separate language.

In my experience in the south I have never heard someone seriously use you. Maybe it is a yank thing. They talk really word, especially in New England and such. There are some regions I have limited exposure to in the south, so maybe it is one of those.
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I would very much consider southern english to be a different language, especially when you're in a really small town like Highland Home.
 
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I have seen another engineer's hell.
I'm doing some projects where I have to interface with industry. Recently I got technical drawings of quite precise details, the biggest length was about 10cm...
...with all dimensions in meters.
IN SCIENTIFIC NOTATION. Like 3.25000000x10-4. (the -4 in superscript)
It was not a print-out. It was a DRAWING. Someone designed this, someone drew this, someone accepted this, someone signed this and copied this.
 
PCXT said:
I have seen another engineer's hell.
I'm doing some projects where I have to interface with industry. Recently I got technical drawings of quite precise details, the biggest length was about 10cm...
...with all dimensions in meters.
IN SCIENTIFIC NOTATION. Like 3.25000000x10-4. (the -4 in superscript)
It was not a print-out. It was a DRAWING. Someone designed this, someone drew this, someone accepted this, someone signed this and copied this.
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What's so strange about that? The metre is the SI base unit for distance and lengths.

I have worked at a customer where all external component interfaces were reporting in metres. Even though we were working at a nanometre scale.
 
PCXT said:
the biggest length was about 10cm...
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That's because it is winter (in the Northern hemisphere). Things tend to shrink with cold.

But honestly... any decent CAD program can change their units... for example, from inch to mm or from m to mm... without disturbing the drawing.
 
Levi, and I expected mm. I could expect proper dimensioning too, but I got used to incomplete (or excessive) dimensions.

Decent CAD... This was a scan of drawing. Made with ink on a piece of paper, and I should thank them not giving me a tube of Astralon :).
I found that with computer sketches there can be even more troubles. When I was getting SolidWorks assembly files, many times I found base sketches hidden inside solids. Old solids downscaled and hidden inside updated solids too. More, one team used network drive for storing their files and many designers modified assemblies independently for different variations of a process (where the last step was a printout, not saving!), so the situation with rod (15mm in diameter) moving inside 10-mm diameter tube was quite typical.
 
Windows 10 (n): A 64-bit "upgrade" to a 32-bit patch for a 16-bit GUI shell running on an 8-bit operating system, written for a 4-bit processor by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition!

Intrigued by the fact you could play with the Lions jewels (as opposed, to, eating them, but hey, some play with their food) and wanting to unveil what they ACTUALLY mean... I am now trying to decipher the euphemism for big ships.... The reviews are exquisitely formulated and do not provide any hint without actually reading the book, I fear:

Avoid-Huge-Ships-John-Trimmer (book 2nd edition. See amazon reviews)
 
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I heard that you get a Plush Ape if you still want to buy a Volkswagen in Germany ::

Regarding Game of Thrones:
Im now reading and it’s quite cool,
The only thing that’s a bit diverent for me are the Names of the Characters:
I wrote the Information on the Houses of Westeros and in the first pages I mistake Robb Stark (14 years old) whit his father Edd Stark ..
 
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