Date   : Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:38:49 +0000
From   : jgh@... (J.G.Harston)
Subject: [OT] Who'da thought...

Rick Murray wrote:
> 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!

No, just got into instructor's car, turned key, drove off. But then, the
instructor's car is a Diesel manual Polo. My car, still in Sheffield, is
a petrol automatic Rover.

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

It was 20 years ago, so I'm rather rusty.

>> 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...

I did once manage to create an election leaflet in Chinese by looking
up each individual character in the input system ;)

>      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".

In Japanese my name sounds like the leader of Nationalist China...
...or a large vegetable mountain...

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J.G.Harston - jgh@...