I've heard this as "Don't be a Foo!",
it is usually reinforced by a barrage
of expletives. It seems more common
in urban areas, although heard in rural areas
also where it is usually believed to
be used in imitation of typically violent
crime scene investigation dramas
in American television shows.
:-)))
Jay B.
print Wikipedia as an 20-volume encyclopedia set and
start selling it tomorrow, without having any legal
problems. Am I wrong here? Perhaps a CD-format would
be more practical though. ;-)
Also, could someone direct me to a page that
illustrates why being under the GFDL license is better
than simply being public domain. I've pretty much
ignored all the discussions before about it, but now
I'm involved in a few projects and we're thinking
about our license policies, so...
Chuck
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word bridge is the
English pronunciation of biritch, an older name of the game of unknown
middle eastern origin. The OED reports speculation that it may come
from a Turkish term, bir-uc which translates as "one-three" and is
said to refer to the fact that one hand is exposed and three are
concealed.
manufacture and sell the merchandise, at no cost to you. You set the
prices; if you decide to charge more than their base price, you'll get
a check in the mail.
Should we go for it?
Axel
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most people did not think that having
www.wikipedia.org as a multi-language portal would be
stupid. When I promote Wikipedia, I want to promote
the project *as a whole*, but I'm certainly not going
to promote www.wikipedia.org which goes to a webpage
in English if I'm promoting the in an Esperanto
magazine and I doubt people who are promoting the
German, Polish, Dutch, Spanish, etc would want to
point to that page either.
I know a lot of people who thought the Esperanto
Wikipedia was the only language that existed in the
project and I'd imagine that we're not alone in this.
I started promoting www.vikipedio.org because people
got confused when we promoted eo.wikipedia.org.
I also know a lot of people who don't speak English
who simply click off a page if they see that it's not
in a language they understand, thus they'd never get
past the English front page of Wikipedia. Also, a
dropdown box like we use at www.tejo.org might work as
well, instead of the portal as planned, but I think
the multilingual portal at www.wikipedia.org is
necessary.
Also, what's wrong if people have linked to
www.wikipedia.org from their webpages. It will still
go to Wikipedia, they don't need to change their
links! The Wikipedia is a multilingual project, not
just an English project. Plus, this is one of the
reasons why the Spanish project won't merge back with
us.
I'm crossposting this on Intlwiki-L and Wikipedia-L so
all can participate. I recommend that we continue
this discussion on Wikipedia-L.
Thanks,
Chuck
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> I think this is more of a global (worldwide) policy
> issue, so
> discussion belongs on wikipedia-l, rather than an
> internationalization
> issue.
Ok, I subscribed today. I guess I missed the mailing
list change while I was travelling...