Re: [GTALUG] Favorite desktop manager?

On 7/31/23 09:32, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:

There is more than one way to pronounce MATE?

Years ago, an Australian friend (anyone else remember Rob Chanter?) was discoursing on the varied pronunciations of that word, ranging from a drawn-out appreciative "maaaate" for the buddy who had just bought you a pint, to a very short and clipped "mate" for someone who was on the verge of being on the other side of a brawl. And it's the word for your coworkers and any other group you're with, a very all-purpose term in that culture with context encoded in pronunciation. And then there's the South American drink by that name, coming out of a totally different linguistic tradition. Anthony