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Some pages want to load up in a foreign language (Catlin) Google then asks me if I would like it translated to english. There is a drop down list of languages...but english is greyed out. How can I make english the default language?
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Amazing we all learned English! I think a retired English teacher was bored. THIS IS GREAT! Read all the way to the end. This took a lot of work to put together! You think English is easy?? 1) The bandage was wound around the wound. 2) The farm was used to produce produce. 3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse. 4) We must polish the Polish furniture. 5) He could lead if he would get the lead out. 6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert. 7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present. 8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum. 9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes. 10) I did not object to the object. 11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid. 12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row. 13) They were too close to the door to close it. 14) The buck does funny things when the does are present. 15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line. 16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow. 17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail. 18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear. 19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests. 20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend? Let's face it, English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France . Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down; you fill in a form by filling it out; an alarm goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick' ? You lovers of the English language might enjoy this: There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is 'UP' It's easy to understand UP meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report? We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house, and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special. A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearingUP. When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP. When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP. One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so........it is time to shut UP! Now it's UP to you to decide what to do with this email.
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The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for the various groups of animals. We are all familiar with a Herd of cows, a Flock of chickens, a School of fish and a Gaggle of geese. However, less widely known is a Pride of lions, a Murder of crows (as well as their cousins the rooks and ravens), an Exaltation of doves and, presumably because they look so wise, a Parliament of owls. Now consider a group of Baboons. They are the loudest, most dangerous, most obnoxious, most viciously aggressive and least intelligent of all primates. And what is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons? Believe it or not ....... a Congress! I guess that pretty much explains the things that come out of Washington!
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I just got the Scala Pro and was trying to sync my Nuvi 360 to it. The Nuvi has a password key of 1234, the Scala wants 0000. Does anyone know how I can change either of these? I can get into the programing language if it is in there somewhere and someone who knew what all that stuff means:big-grin-emoticon:
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So to all you fellows south of the border, do not forget to practice the language. :rotf:See attached for a refresher course. Brad [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4yiXRe6XFM]YouTube - Take Off - Bob & Doug & Geddy[/ame] Sorry I do not know how to attach the video.
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WE NEED THIS INFORMATION PASSED ON TO EVERY RED-BLOODEDAMERICAN!!!!!! 33 Senators Voted Against English as America 'sOfficial Language June 6, 2007On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 23:35:23 -0500,"ColonelHarry Riley USA ret" wrote: Senators, Your vote against an amendment to theImmigration Bill, 1348, to make English America's offical language isastounding. On D-Day no less when we honor those that sacrificed inorder to secure the bedrock character and principles of America . I canonly surmise your vote reflects a loyalty to illegal aliens. I don't much care where you come from, what yourreligion is, whether you're black, white or some other color, male orfemale, democrat, republican or independent, but I do care when you're aUnited States Senator, representing citizens of America and vote againstEnglish as the official language of the United States Your vote reflects betrayal, politicalsurrender, violates your pledge of allegiance, dishonors historicalprinciple, rejects patriotism, borders on traitorous action and, in myopinion makes you unfit to serve as a United StatesSenator...impeachment, recall, or other appropriate action is warrented. Worse,four of you voting against English asAmerica 'sofficial language are presidential candidates: Senator Biden,Senator Clinton, Senator Dodd, and Senator Obama. Four Senators vying to lead America but won't ordon't have the courage to cast a vote in favor of English as America'sofficial language when 91% of American citizens want English officiallydesignated as our language. This is the second time in the last severalmonths this list of Senators have disgraced themselves as politicalhacks.....unworthy as Senators and certainly unqualifed to serve asPresident of the United States. If America is as angry as I am, you will realizea back-lash so stunning it will literally rock you out of yourpanties...and preferably totally out of the United States Senate. The entire immigration bill is a farce...youraction only confirms this really isn't about America , it's aboutself-serving politics....despciable at best "Never argue with an idiot; they'll drag youdown to their level and beat you with experience." ~ anonymous The following senators voted against makingEnglish the official language ofAmerica : Akaka (D-HI) Bayh (D-IN) Biden (D-DE) Wants to be President? Bingaman (D-NM) Boxer (D-CA) Cantwell (D-WA) Clinton (D-NY) Wants to be President? Dayton (D-MN) Dodd (D-CT) Wants to be President Domenici (R-NM) Coward, protecting his Senateseat... Durbin (D-IL) Feingold (D-WI) Not unusual for him Feinstein (D-CA) Harkin (D-IA) Inouye (D-HI) Jeffords (I-VT) Kennedy (D-MA) Kerry (D-MA) Wanted to be President Kohl (D-WI) Lautenberg (D-NJ) Leahy (D-VT) Levin (D-MI) Lieberman (D-CT) Disappointment here..... Menendez (D-NJ) Mikulski (D-MD) Murray (D-WA) Obama (D-IL) Wants to be President Reed (D-RI) Reid (D-NV) Senate Majority Leader Salazar (D-CO) Sarbanes (D-MD) Schumer (D-NY) Stabenow (D-M ) "Congressmen who willfully take actions duringwartime that damage morale, and undermine the military are saboteurs andshould be arrested, exiled or hanged." President Abraham Lincoln
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