On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 1:50 AM, Timothy Collinson <xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:

. . . do some rooting round on the Internet. It does seem likely there'd at least be something informal if nothing else.

This discussion makes me wish I was better at learning languages. I'm apparently a better-than-fair mimic, able to parrot back something in a foreign tongue with reasonable accuracy upon hearing it. But learning what that means and being able to reliably duplicate my utterances . . . not happening.

Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein

"I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as Muhammed." Alexis de Tocqueville (1843)

"We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous." Dean Winchester

"It has been my experience that a gun doesn't care who pulls its trigger." Newton Knight (as portrayed by Matthew McConaughey), to a scoffing Confederate tax collector facing the weapons held by Knight's young children and wife.