mike's web logmike pope's Web logRecently in South Asian English- July 5, 2008 I just ran across a usage that initially startled me: in at least parts of India, the phrase till the other day has a temporal quality that is different from American English. In the general sense, till the other day means "recently," as in "I didn't see that movie till the other day." This quality of recentness is (to my American-English ear) fairly specific: until a recent day. The day in question is unspecified, but it is a discrete day, and it occurred in the close past.In examples I've...http://www.mikepope.com/blog/DisplayBlog.aspx?permalink=1990 A slightly less trivial browser history example- July 3, 2008 One of the ASP.NET features that will be officially mainstreamed in the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 release is browser history. (Video) (The feature has been available in Futures releases and in the SP1 beta for a while.) In my editing role I keep crossing paths with the browser history feature, and in my limited exposure to it, I kept thinking that the examples I was seeing were sort of trivial.1 In particular, the examples I was seeing either a) showed history for a single state change or b) in...http://www.mikepope.com/blog/DisplayBlog.aspx?permalink=1989 Roundup- July 3, 2008 And we're back.Firebreathing electric wheelchair - the answer to a question nobody asked. "Why drive something that looks like a medical device when you can drive something lethal" via Friend SteveHow to Understand Copyright Basics. Here's something that the Interweb at large doesn't seem to get: "Understand that nearly everything on the Internet, and everywhere else, is copyrighted, by default." The Web: world's most efficient medium for copyright violation. Coca-Cola around the world. A..http://www.mikepope.com/blog/DisplayBlog.aspx?permalink=1988 |