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Subject: BS: Check Out Our Forum From: Santa Date: 17 Nov 03 - 07:21 AM Every time I click on this to check out, I check in. So to check in, I have to check out. Am I the only one confused? Don't Americans have check out tills in their supermarkets? |
Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum From: GUEST,MMario Date: 17 Nov 03 - 09:38 AM yes - though "checkout counter" would be a more familiar form to us. "Check out" in American-ese is equivilant to "Have a look at" |
Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum From: Amos Date: 17 Nov 03 - 12:40 PM Santa: "Check this out" is a fairly recent (last five-ten years) expression from the young, meaning to look it over, investigate it, eyeball it, scope it out, etc. With some forums you have to check in to the forum before you can check out the forum. Check? A |
Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum From: GUEST,MMario Date: 17 Nov 03 - 12:52 PM Amos? the phrase was in current use when I was in High School. That was quite a few years more then 5 or 10 |
Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum From: Amos Date: 17 Nov 03 - 01:06 PM Sorry, Mario -- I don't believe you. I have seen your picture and you aren't a day over 28. A Oh, all right. All right!! 30 years tops. |
Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum From: Wolfgang Date: 17 Nov 03 - 01:11 PM Einchecken, durchchecken, auschecken. Mein Arzt hat mich durchgecheckt Ich muss das erst noch auschecken. If we even conjugate it already in German, it must be old. What had puzzled me on the Mudcat site for a wee moment was that the filter actually isn't out when you click on 'filter out'. Wolfgang |
Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum From: GUEST,MMario Date: 17 Nov 03 - 01:12 PM hell - my *diploma* is older then that Amos! |
Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum From: Ebbie Date: 17 Nov 03 - 01:13 PM In Alaska when we say 'the lights are out', chances are we're not talking about bulbs. |
Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum From: Wolfgang Date: 17 Nov 03 - 01:17 PM Once, nearly the whole CSSR icehockey team had names ending in 'check' (whatever your English transliteration is) which makes a lot of sense for Czechs and the reporter was heard saying "...Franticzech, Holyczech, Bodilczech, crosscheck!" Wolfgang |
Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum From: Peace Date: 17 Nov 03 - 03:55 PM Check in--hotel, airline, conference Check out--hotel Check out (be careful with the transitivity on this one because it is used with a phrase) the ________ on her, him Check it out--after understanding the pronominal referent Check--got it or I agree Cheque--thing that comes back from the bank |
Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 17 Nov 03 - 06:36 PM You missed out "check up" (not to be confused with "chuck up") |
Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum From: Bill D Date: 17 Nov 03 - 09:09 PM some folks here seem to have a checkered past*! and present, too... *means roughly, containing black areas (like a checker board) of questionable moral behavior |
Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 17 Nov 03 - 09:31 PM a chukkaed past would mean you used to play polo. |
Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum From: Burke Date: 17 Nov 03 - 09:36 PM The worst is that library compuer systems designate a book that is checked out as "charged" that means when it comes back it is "discharged." No one ever understands this, but the manuals for the computer systems use these terms. The instructions end up being rewritten locally. Why they do not just call it check-in or return is beyond me. |
Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum From: Peace Date: 17 Nov 03 - 10:56 PM McGH: Tried water polo once. Damn near drowned the horse. |
Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum From: rangeroger Date: 18 Nov 03 - 12:51 AM Brucie, doesn't a cheque come from a banque? rr |
Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum From: Deda Date: 18 Nov 03 - 12:55 AM Check into it. I'll check around. It's time for my annual check-up. |
Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum From: open mike Date: 18 Nov 03 - 03:30 AM check, czech, cheque what you say when doing a sound check on a mike. so i guess a checker would be a sound technician, but a chukar is a game bird like a quail or grouse |
Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum From: rangeroger Date: 18 Nov 03 - 09:43 PM What about chukka boots? rr |
Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum From: Amos Date: 18 Nov 03 - 09:46 PM Burke: Computer programmers are always writing things from their own point of view instead of the users; to them it makes sense that a book being carried on the records (loaned out) is charged because the register is loaded with the books data, and the record will be carried until discharged. It makes sense electronically also. Just humanly obscure. Typical geeks. A |
Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum From: GUEST,pdc Date: 18 Nov 03 - 10:16 PM Oh dear. I wish I hadn't had a scotch before dinner, then wine with it, before reading this thread. I'm confused... |
Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 18 Nov 03 - 10:23 PM I've stopped checking things out. I'm an exchecquer. sp? Jerry |
Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum From: Peace Date: 18 Nov 03 - 10:25 PM rangerover: In Quebec, yep. In Alberta, nope. Good eye. Never noticed that before. |
Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum From: annamill Date: 19 Nov 03 - 10:15 PM BAD TASTE WARNING! DON'T READ IF SENSITIVE! What do you call an abortion in Czechoslavakia(sp)?? Boo... A cancelled Czech... Sorry.. love, Annamill |
Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum From: Mickey191 Date: 20 Nov 03 - 10:31 AM What about the _final_ checkout? To stop breathing. Used to be the euphemism-haven't heard it much lately. |
Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum From: muppett Date: 20 Nov 03 - 10:46 AM AND CHECK MATE |