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RE: English translation please
Posted by: Kelland Hutchence ()
Date: May 31, 2001 07:18PM

<HTML>I agree whole heartedly with Geoff. It\'s understandable that those without English as a mother tongue will think this means blood thirsty or lacking in intelligence, but these would both be wrong.

A good example of someone who was \'bloody minded\' was Nelson when at the battle of Copenhagen he was bloody minded enough to decide he did not wish to see a signal, for withdrawal, I believe and said \'I see no signal\' afetr putting his telescope to his blind eye.

Nelson could be bloody when he wanted to be, but he never lacked intelligence and had a reputation for resolution and stubbornness which made him the man that he was.

Regards

Kelland</HTML>

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Subject Written By Posted
English translation please Tom Iwanski 05/30/2001 12:27PM
RE: English translation please Rainer Bruns 05/30/2001 02:26PM
RE: English translation please Kris 05/30/2001 04:20PM
RE: English translation please Fiona 05/30/2001 05:37PM
RE: English translation please Walter M. 05/30/2001 09:15PM
RE: English translation please peter 05/31/2001 06:56PM
The context Tom Iwanski 05/30/2001 09:35PM
RE: English translation please Ihavone 05/30/2001 09:59PM
RE: English translation please Geoff Harvey 05/30/2001 10:37PM
RE: English translation please Ihavone 05/31/2001 02:51PM
RE: English translation please Kelland Hutchence 05/31/2001 07:18PM
RE: Not the words I would use MPC 05/31/2001 08:25AM
RE: Not the words I would use Rainer Bruns 05/31/2001 11:54AM
RE: English translation please Ken Dunn 05/31/2001 03:37PM
RE:Ihaveone? You have nothing! John Griffiths 05/31/2001 04:29PM
RE:Ihaveone? You have nothing! Peter Johnson 05/31/2001 07:06PM
RE:Ihaveone? You have nothing! Ken Dunn 06/01/2001 10:42AM
RE:Ihaveone? You have nothing! John Griffiths 06/01/2001 06:06PM
RE Concise Oxford Dictionary MPC 05/31/2001 08:19AM
RE: RE Concise Oxford Dictionary Tom Iwanski 05/31/2001 12:44PM


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