Windows 10 October 2018 Update rollout now paused

Wynona said:

And then there's the caveat faced by at least one person . . . I think she had her files on D:\ drive and they disappeared.

Exactly If you've just changed the location of your user folders, Windows still knows where the files are, and can delete them regardless of the location.

jimbo45 said:

Hi there

Try French (Belgium for example 70 is different to 70 in French, Flemish has different words to Dutch, Afrikaans has different words to both, Icelandic based on Old Norse has diverged differently, Mexican spanish different to catalan, brazilian portuguese different to Lisbon Portuguese etc.

It would be impossible to have a totally 100% unified language --different customs, traditions etc etc -- not possible sometimes to even explain to other cultures a meaning of a local event etc.

In any case would we really want a bland universal language "Robotese" for example.

Cheers
jimbo

Now if you want insane - try Danish counting.

A couple of years ago, I became Nine and Half Three (Twenties implied) years old using literal translation from Danish.

That is obvious isn't it i.e. 9 + (3-0.5)*20

The rest of Scandinavia would use

9 + five tens (9 plus fifty).

Wynona said:

Just trying to make myself understood, TC. Finally figured out how, I think.

As a f'r instance, we have one Guru who won't update to 1809 for a couple or three months. What if that guru's system is one that 1809 deletes personal files from?

The guru decides everything's hunky dory once more, and at that point chooses to update to 1809. If the offending code hasn't been deleted . . . Whoops! All personal files are gone!

In 3 months, if MS hasn't fixed the issue, there won't be any update to do.

reddice said:

I pay my bills online so I don't use checks either. However older people like my relatives only use checks. They are over paranoid and don't trust anything online.

I resemble that remark - now 83 going on 84, consider myself "older" like your relatives and I pay everything I can online - using credit card, bank, PayPal! However I do keep my cash under the mattress - lol.

At this stage in the game and my life, all my money is tied up in cash. lol.

And there always seems to be more month left at the end of the money. =(

cereberus said:

Now if you want insane - try Danish counting.

A couple of years ago, I became Nine and Half Three (Twenties implied) years old using literal translation from Danish.

That is obvious isn't it i.e. 9 + (3-0.5)*20

The rest of Scandinavia would use

9 + five tens (9 plus fifty).

this reminds me on the last Olympics... somebody ordered couple of trucks of eggs for breakfast..

alphanumeric said:

Exactly If you've just changed the location of your user folders, Windows still knows where the files are, and can delete them regardless of the location.

Which brings up another way of thinking . . .

When I set the extra hard drive in my desktop, I named it Data, not User. Could that be a reason I didn't get my files disappeared? Just a wild guess . . .

cereberus said:

Now if you want insane - try Danish counting.

A couple of years ago, I became Nine and Half Three (Twenties implied) years old using literal translation from Danish.

That is obvious isn't it i.e. 9 + (3-0.5)*20

The rest of Scandinavia would use

9 + five tens (9 plus fifty).

Just a Number

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So, uh, yeah. We have the same number system as everybody else, but we say the numbers a bit funny here in Denmark. Swedes and especially Norwegians love to make fun of that.

In case you’re wondering what numbers Denmark is saying it’s:
10 cows, 34 pigs, 52 chickens, 193 eggs, 261 nuts, which he then changes to 371 nuts.

Not even Danes will recognize these numbers the way I wrote them in English, but I was being an extreme pronunciation nazi and writing them almost exactly like they’re said in Danish.

The thing that really confuse our Northern neighbors is that with a number like 52 we don’t say “fifty two” but “two and fifty” which sounds like “two fifty”. And our word for fifty sounds like “half sixty” and 90 sounds like “half fives” and it just goes on like that.

You are allowed to be confused. And Norway had to put up with that for 300 years.