h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

i'm more interested as to why

British: The cake was made using flour, butter, sugar, eggs, baking powder and ground almonds

german: Using flour, butter, sugar, eggs, baking powder and ground almonds, the cake was made
Or may be not.

As I recall from my Uni German 101 it would be:

Flour using butter, sugar, eggs and baking powder mit almonds grinded the cake made was.


~jwf~

A straightforward list including 'and' doesn't require a comma, but if one goes on to say something else about the list then it is quite grammatically correct to put a comma before the following 'and'.

example:

We had a very nice dinner of roast beef, potatoes and yorkshire pudding, and after that we had an amazing dessert.


az

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Only if Yoda was cooking . . .


az

Oh yes, Yoda was most certainly German. A cloned mixed from several German sources, Goethe's hopeless romanticism, Freud's impatience, Beethoven's sense of drama and a German shepherd's ears.

"Futile resistance is, assimilated be you."


~jwf~

az

And furthermore . . .

Well, I think someone else mentioned here earlier that they didn't understand the point of bookmarking. It used to make sense before one of the recent changes here, but these days we can clearly see on our personal pages how many new posts there are on any given thread since we last posted ourselves, so there really is no need to bookmark anymore.

Except of course to annoy other people who think they are going to read something interesting and then just get a


az

not forgeting i dont threads i lurk on. otherwise those eyes start staring ,

not with standing the half sentences eh Az,.

logicus, you are a law unto yourself, darling.

You don't need to - I *always* know you're on every thread I'm on!


az

But sometimes you might want to say that you are reading a thread that you might be expected to contribute to, and that you are thinking about the subject, but for whatever reason not actually contributing as yet. I've done that a couple of times, for sure.

The other thing is that the facility which says that you have read up to 'here' is machine specific, (it is cookie-based, isn't it?), and if you are an internet tart, logging on from different machines, then you would still need to bookmark.

So - yes - and are less useful than they were, but they are still useful, imho.

B

"The other thing is that the facility which says that you have read up to 'here' is machine specific, (it is cookie-based, isn't it?), and if you are an internet tart, logging on from different machines, then you would still need to bookmark."

It also doesn't work in Brunel except on the conversation pop-up which is so bloody ugly and confusing that I never use it.

And it can be useful to mark a place in a conversation if you are going to read the latest posts but aren't able to reply until later and then need to find the place again. Essential on fast moving threads.


If the >>x new posts<< link took you to the exact post then there would be less need for book marking .

I have found that when I log on in the evening at home, having been on site during the day at work, it carries on where I left off at work. And vice versa, when I get back to work the next morning, it picks up where I left of the night before. Or so I thought - must follow that one more closely. It doesn't really make sense, because, as you say, it can only be cookie-based. I thought there was some really clever monitoring going on at the beeb.

Well, I use Brunel, which may explain why my experience is not as nifty as other people's.

B

Okay, okay . . . sheesh!

So there still are some good reasons for bookmarking. I agree it would be nice if when you clicked on 'x-new posts' that it would take you to that point in the conversation.

And I really don't mind clicking on a thread only to find out that 'Ben was here'.

My experience with the thing is that most people who do this end up still lurking on that thread anyhow. Heck, I've even done it myself. I guess it's a way of saying that you are no longer participating on the thread, which of course (as has been pointed out before) is only being polite for others who may continue to address postings to you.

But I wonder why the different skin options don't have the same personal options?


az

logicus said :

"not forgeting i dont threads i lurk on. otherwise those eyes start staring"

HAH! A year on and the war versus P.O.O. and W.E.E. is comfirmed to be over. W.E.E. win!

Anyway. I'm just here to be annoying and

But I know you're all glad to see me, so

Actually, seeing Sat reminds me that there have been a number of researchers over the years, all female, all nationalities, all barking one way or the other, whose very presence in a thread would cause me to unsubscribe sooner or later.

B

Aw, isn't that sweet. It's nice that I have such an impact on your day to day life B.