Re: [OT] Apology

From: R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah (ng4rrjanbiah_at_rediffmail.com)
Date: 11/27/03 

Date: 27 Nov 2003 06:41:02 -0800

Joona I Palaste <palaste@cc.helsinki.fi> wrote in message news:<bq4k7u$ofl$1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi>...
> Grumble <invalid@kma.eu.org> scribbled the following:
> > R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah wrote:
> >> Joona I Palaste wrote:
> >>
> >> <sig>Finland rules!</sig>
> >>
> >> No one rules, not even America or Finland or India... But, only
> >> the money and crooked brains rules (and also divides people). I think,
> >> the genius who belongs to the total world of C programming should
> >> consider removing such ethnic slogan from his sig block (IMHO).
>
> > When one says "X rules", it means "X is cool". Thus "Finland rules"
> > means "Finland is a nice place". It does not mean "Finland has
> > authority, or exerts control, over anything".

     Oh my!! English seems to be more strange than what I'd thought...

> At last that's the impression I was trying to give. Finland is a nice
> place, but it does not have authority or exert control on anything
> except itself.
> I'm sorry if I didn't make this clear earlier.

     My sincere apologies for misunderstanding that idiom (or phrase).
BTW, you may consider idiots like me when framing words :) 

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