Date   : Sun, 21 Nov 2010 03:47:25 +0100
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: [OT] Who'da thought...

On 21/11/2010 03:27, J.G.Harston wrote:

>> Here's a dead-simple test:
>>     Do you have a choke lever?
> No.... what's one of them?

!!!!?????

Little knobbly lever thing that will be your best friend on cold damp 
winter mornings if you DON'T have an ECU.

They tend to be finickety in use, but they sort of bump up the mixture 
to get the engine turning when it really doesn't want to (like getting 
me out of bed on a winter's morning!).

If you have one, you'll need to learn your engine. Some want it eased 
off as soon as it is up to tickover speed, some want it eased off as the 
engine temperature rises. Too much, or too little, can lead to stalling.


Or if you look around your controls and don't see a choke, you might 
have an ECU where all this is done for you. MUCH easier, turn the key 
and off you go.


I can't believe this wasn't mentioned at some point in your driving lessons!


>> "We bring Japanese"?
> Hmm. Should have been: That's all Japanese to me.
> Motsu - all
> nippongo - japanese
> wataksi - me (informal)
> e - towardsness

Here's a tip: http://translate.google.com/#

Which offers: ???????????????
    Said like: Sore wa watashi ni subete no nipponjindesu.

And for bonus marks, pasting the JP back into the translate box and 
swapping the direction of translation shows it is accurate, for the 
input and result (via Japanese) are the same:
               It's all Japanese to me.


This is of course something of a misnomer - you seem to know some 
Japanese, so...? ;-)


> Ditto. Jumping between squiggles on screen and my Kenkyusha is fiddly.

Indeed. Even worse using OvationPro's character map to look up kana 
Unicode numbers ('cos bloody Character Map does it in hex!). It's worse 
when looking up kanji, so many of them look like so many others...


Best wishes,

Rick.

PS: As of yesterday, I can now *correctly* write my some. Whoo! :-)
     I had been using ?????, but now it is "ma-ri" not
     "mu-ri" as the "u" is a different sound; and also a
     long consonant for "Rick", plus "ku" instead of "ki"
     for "Rick" instead of "Ricky". Swapped to Western order, too.
     Therefore: ??? ??? is my name. <phew!>

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