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RE: [off-topic] Re: Relax NG Projects

• To: 'Rick Jelliffe' <ricko@a...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: [off-topic] Re: Relax NG Projects
• From: "Anderson, John" <John@B...>
• Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 12:15:54 +0200

Try explaining "How's yer bum for grubs?" and see how far you get.

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Jelliffe [mailto:ricko@a...]
> Sent: 22 June 2002 13:25
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: [off-topic] Re: Relax NG Projects
>
>
> From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
>
> > Can someone please explain the verb "to whiteant" so
> someone who is not
> > a native speaker of the American language?
>
> Sorry, I see the dictionary labels it "colloquial".  I am not
> British nor American.
> To "white-ant" is to subvert or undermine from within (an
> organisation or enterprise).
>
> A very useful for word for conspiracy theories. Someone who
> white-ants is not
> a white-ant but  a white-anter, b.t.w. Examples below.
>
> Cheers
> Rick Jelliffe
>

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