What shame? [Was: What a shame...]

Sue Spence virtualsue at pennine.com
Wed Oct 25 09:42:37 BST 2006


chromatic wrote:
> On Monday 23 October 2006 15:00, Pedro Figueiredo wrote:
> 
>> especially when everyone can view windows media.

Hmmm.

> 
> Apparently this is a defintion of "everyone" with which I, as a stupid Yank 
> (as far as you know; I grew up in the west where we didn't even have states 
> during the war), cannot possibly understand, and I get that fries are chips 
> and chips are crisps.
> 

Ah, a language expert. Do you know any, er, idioms for Portuguese types? 
  We were trying to think of some awhile back, but utterly failed. 
Except "wookie", which wasn't quite what we were looking for.


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