Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic writes:

VAXman writes to my post:

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Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic writes: > >>I went to a number of talks; quality varied. Mostly speakers overran >>their hour, they outta work on their presentations. Talks varied from >>lock-picking to solar-panel technology. > > 'outta work'?

1) I write 400 words, you comment on the choice of one?

out=C2=B7ta =CB=88oud=C9=99 preposition preposition: outta; preposition: outa

an informal contraction of =E2=80=9Cout of,=E2=80=9D used in represe= nting=20 colloquial speech. "we'd better get outta here" - courtesy of Google Translate

My error, my intention was a contraction of "ought to", as in "oughta".=20 It's a (regional) homophone. I ignored the spell-checker to be colloquial= .

Ought or out -- that makes a big difference to understanding what you wrote.

2) My post is time-stamped Mar 22 17:10 CET (I don't know why the list=20 chooses Central time and not Eastern time). Your reply after was=20 time-stamped Mar 22 16:15. Looks like someone's computer clock was not=20 set forward (not sure whose).

Don't look at me, all of my clocks are correct. It's currently about 15 mins after noon here. (EDT)

5) (ignore, no response)

Readers: vote for your favorite response. VAXman: what fits your=20 expected response?

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