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  1. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!amdahl!rtech!sgiblab!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!zeus.usq.edu.au!helios!house
  3. From: house@helios.usq.EDU.AU (ron house)
  4. Subject: Re: Canadian English
  5. Message-ID: <house.728186955@helios>
  6. Sender: news@zeus.usq.edu.au (News Administrator)
  7. Organization: University of Southern Queensland
  8. References: <C1C1AC.2ED@ecf.toronto.edu> <1jeb99INNe6d@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <AfM4vQW00iUzI4RNRl@andrew.cmu.edu> <1993Jan23.055835.22666@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> <1jt0d3INNh2s@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1993Jan24.192632.24928@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
  9. Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:09:15 GMT
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  12. mjhf@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Michael James Horsfall) writes:
  13. >"I don't like hamburgers very much" = "I'm not too *fussy* about ..."
  14. >                                    = "I'm not too *crazy* about ..."
  15.  
  16. >"Just put anything in/on my hamburgers" = "I'm not too *picky* about ..."
  17. >                                        = "I'm not too *finicky* about ..."
  18.  
  19. Come to Australia:
  20. "I don't like..." = "I'm not fussed..."
  21. "I don't care which..." = "I'm not fussy..."
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  25. Ron House.                 USQ
  26. (house@helios.usq.edu.au)  Toowoomba, Australia.
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