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Lloydy
Joined: 02 Sep 2009 Posts: 7785 Location: Ironbridge. UK.
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Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 12:37 am Post subject: |
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Lloydy wrote:
Dude, this is a shedload of freakin awesome minty!
The bookcases are actually made by 'Minty Library Specialists, Oxford' _________________ LENSES & CAMERAS FOR SALE.....
I have loads of stuff that I have to get rid of, if you see me commenting about something I have got and you want one, ask me.
My Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/mudplugga/
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http://www.ipernity.com/home/294337 |
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kryss
Joined: 13 Sep 2009 Posts: 2169 Location: Canada
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Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 12:57 am Post subject: |
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kryss wrote:
Brilliant Lloyd,haven't laughed so much since Grandma caught her drooping thing'ys in the lawnmower. Merry Christmas to you and yours.Regards |
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tromboads
Joined: 29 May 2012 Posts: 1782 Location: Melbourne AU
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Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 4:32 am Post subject: |
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tromboads wrote:
I love you guys |
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philslizzy
Joined: 07 Aug 2012 Posts: 4748 Location: Cheshire, England
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Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 5:18 am Post subject: |
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philslizzy wrote:
Interesting topic. Bad use of English is a pet hate of mine. I borrowed a book from someone at work and he must have seen me going to town on the bus. At work the next day his question was; "I seen yer on the buz goin town. Was ya readin that book what I borrowed ya?"
This guy is a trainer at work, and most of the trainees he gets are Eastern European (M&S employed 1200 of them for peak). They dont have a clue what he's saying.
Common words northerners use that confuses the hell out of foreigners:
"y'llafta" y'gorrageddit" "sorted" "smashin" etc
One of the things about my OWN English is the way I miss the first part of a sentence (when writing) for example above "Interesting topic." Instead of "What an interesting topic" or "An Interesting topic..." _________________ Hero in the 'messin-with-cameras-for-the-hell-of-it department'. Official. |
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caspert79
Joined: 31 Oct 2010 Posts: 2926 Location: The Netherlands
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Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 5:23 am Post subject: |
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caspert79 wrote:
Minty objects surely smell fresh. |
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hifisapi
Joined: 25 Sep 2012 Posts: 941 Location: USA
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Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 9:55 am Post subject: |
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hifisapi wrote:
I don't see what the big deal is with minty. It just roughly means near mint condition. _________________ ===========
ACQUIRED OVER 30 YEARS:
Cameras: DSLR=Pentax istDS FILM=Pentax SP, SP-F, ESII, SP1000, KX, K2
Lenses : Pentax M42 = Super Multi Coated Takumars 50/1.4 55/1.8 100/4-BELLOWS 500/4.5 1000/8 135-600/6.7 Pentax PK= SMC Pentax-Ks K17/4-FF Fisheye K18/3.5 K20/4 K24/3.5 K28/3.5 K28/2 K35/3.5 K35/2 K50/1.2 K50/1.4K 50/4-MACROK 55/1.8 K85/1.8 K100/4-MACRO K100/4-BELLOWS K105/2.8 K120/2.8 K135/3.5 K135/2.5 K150/4 K200/4 K400/5.6 K45-125/4K 85-210/4.5 Pentax PKM = SMC Pentax-M M40/2.8-Pancake M50/1.4 M75-150/4 M80-200/4.5 Pentax PKA= SMC Pentax-A A15/3.5 A50/2.8-MACRO A28/2 A35/2 A50/1.4 A135/2.8 A200/4 A*300/4 A35-105/3.5 A24-50/4 A70-210/4 TAMRON AD2= SP80-200/2.8 SP180/2.5 TOKINA AT-X PK= ATX28-85/3.5-4.5 ATX35-70/2.8 ATX60-120/2.8 ATX80-200/2.8 ATX100-300/4 ATX90/2.5 MACRO KIRON-LESTER DINE PK = 105/2.8-MACRO VIVITAR PK = 135/2.8-MACRO 28-85/4 NOFLEXAR AUTOBELLOWS PK = 60/4 105/4 |
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exaklaus
Joined: 11 Aug 2009 Posts: 1633 Location: Niederrhein, Germany
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Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 10:26 am Post subject: |
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exaklaus wrote:
kryss wrote: |
barryreid: you caught it...could't resist |
could't??
My proposal is, to switch to German at this forum, would make my life easier!
Merry X-Mas
klaus _________________ my Ebay auctions
Canon 5D II,
Fuji GW690III, Fuji G617, Fujifilm X-E1
Bessaflex TM
Tachihara 4"x5"
Summilux-R 1:1,4/50
Canon FD 85mm 1:1,2
Color-Heliar 75mm F2.5 SL
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Nordentro
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 4713 Location: Lillehammer, Norway
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Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 1:01 pm Post subject: |
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Nordentro wrote:
Easy - GERMAN _________________ Lars | Manuellfokus.no |
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kryss
Joined: 13 Sep 2009 Posts: 2169 Location: Canada
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Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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kryss wrote:
hifisapi.... Thank you so much for explaining the meaning to me. |
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kryss
Joined: 13 Sep 2009 Posts: 2169 Location: Canada
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Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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kryss wrote:
exaklaus.. oops, thanks,edited. |
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Rick1779
Joined: 17 May 2013 Posts: 1207 Location: Italy
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Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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Rick1779 wrote:
barryreid wrote: |
"Bokehlicious" |
Also Bokeh Monster _________________ TELLTALE
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Rick1779
Joined: 17 May 2013 Posts: 1207 Location: Italy
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Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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Rick1779 wrote:
exaklaus wrote: |
kryss wrote: |
barryreid: you caught it...could't resist |
could't??
My proposal is, to switch to German at this forum, would make my life easier!
Merry X-Mas
klaus |
We just even turn into a Babel forum in which everyone speaks his own language _________________ TELLTALE
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shaky
Joined: 13 Aug 2012 Posts: 22 Location: london, england
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Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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shaky wrote:
It is quite possible that minty could simply be a misspelling of the term describing a decoction or infusion produced using peppermint leaves and hot water. The "tea" thus formed is reckoned by many to be effective in the relief of symptoms of flatulence among other complaints, no? |
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shaky
Joined: 13 Aug 2012 Posts: 22 Location: london, england
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Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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shaky wrote:
Seriously, though, what about the use of "collectible" to mean battered, corroded, missing vital parts or generally in poor condition as rescued from a tip (rubbish dump)? |
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harry tibi
Joined: 11 Nov 2011 Posts: 58 Location: nl
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Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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harry tibi wrote:
Native speakers writing 'I would of wanted'. Tss. I like Klaus' idea: let's talk German. French maybe. Dutch, why not? Oh, you folks only speak English, kind of |
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fermy
Joined: 17 Feb 2012 Posts: 2877
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Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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fermy wrote:
Nordentro wrote: |
Easy - GERMAN |
Nice. Minty immediately became "Pfefferminzaroma". QED _________________ Many lenses and some film bodies for sale here: http://forum.mflenses.com/canon-fd-minolta-md-c-mounts-m42-pentax-and-more-t50465.html
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kryss
Joined: 13 Sep 2009 Posts: 2169 Location: Canada
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Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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kryss wrote:
When I posted this subject I did not anticipate so much fun,so thanks and to all a Merry Christmas and a New Year that brings megalumps of bokehlicious,minty,worked last time I used it,I no nothing about the item STUFF. |
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kuuan
Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 4573 Location: right now: Austria
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Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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kuuan wrote:
hifisapi wrote: |
I don't see what the big deal is with minty. It just roughly means near mint condition. |
agreed, I find it good because it's short and descriptive. If used in the context of a lens sale I never would think of Peppermint.
my mother tongue is not English and I admit that I care little about "formal", even grammatical issues but only about communication. Traveling I have met quite a number of native English speakers who insist on talking what they consider "correct" even though that may mean that the people they are talking to have a very hard time understanding. Often I was an "interpreter", translated the English of a native speaker into my faulty and simplified English for another non native speaker who's level is below mine. _________________ my photos on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kuuan/collections
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kryss
Joined: 13 Sep 2009 Posts: 2169 Location: Canada
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Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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kryss wrote:
So you have minty..Trousers, shoes ,car,bicycle,Wife etc. I don't understand how it should apply to photographic equipment.
Hope the snow in Austria is minty enough for you. |
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kuuan
Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 4573 Location: right now: Austria
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Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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kuuan wrote:
haha Chris, minty wife sure sounds funny! how I see it the meaning of words are conventions and 'minty', to describe the condition of a lens, saying that is it in a condition near to how it was when it left the factory, is just such a convention
no snow yet, once it comes it will be pristine, a wife never will be a virgin, but she might be "virgin-y" _________________ my photos on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kuuan/collections
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danfromm
Joined: 04 Sep 2011 Posts: 576
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Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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danfromm wrote:
harry tibi wrote: |
Native speakers writing 'I would of wanted'. Tss. I like Klaus' idea: let's talk German. French maybe. Dutch, why not? Oh, you folks only speak English, kind of |
The monetary economist Karl Brunner, one of my teachers in grad school, was a native speaker of Schweizerdeutsch and was fluent in Hochdeutsch. I visited him once in Konstanz, spent a week in his monetary economics seminar at Uni Konstanz at his request, sizing up his students, all Germans. He taught the seminar in English, insisted that it was impossible to think clearly in German. He published in English, not in German. |
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kryss
Joined: 13 Sep 2009 Posts: 2169 Location: Canada
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Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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kryss wrote:
Hi kuuan... If it wasn't so expensive I would ship you tons of snow,we have far too much in Canada this year.Anyway you and yours have a very merry and safe Christmas and a fantastic New Year.Regards |
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kuuan
Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 4573 Location: right now: Austria
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Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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kuuan wrote:
hi Chris, no need to ship the snow there is snow in the mountains, in the plains it will come any time, these last few years winter came late and there was abundant snow during February and March.
wish you a merry Christmas, all the best wishes, andreas _________________ my photos on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kuuan/collections |
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Excalibur
Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5019 Location: UK
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Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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Excalibur wrote:
harry tibi wrote: |
Native speakers writing 'I would of wanted'. Tss. I like Klaus' idea: let's talk German. French maybe. Dutch, why not? Oh, you folks only speak English, kind of |
My son's Dutch girlfriend says "most Dutch people can speak English " ...and she told us a funny story that she and a group of Dutch friends were having a conversation in English and no one in the group knew why or how English was started _________________ Canon A1, AV1, T70 & T90, EOS 300 and EOS300v, Chinon CE and CP-7M. Contax 139, Fuji STX-2, Konica Autoreflex TC, FS-1, FT-1, Minolta X-700, X-300, XD-11, SRT101b, Nikon EM, FM, F4, F90X, Olympus OM2, Pentax S3, Spotmatic, Pentax ME super, Praktica TL 5B, & BC1, , Ricoh KR10super, Yashica T5D, Bronica Etrs, Mamiya RB67 pro AND drum roll:- a Sony Nex 3
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Pontus
Joined: 18 Dec 2011 Posts: 1471 Location: Jakobstad, Finland
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Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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Pontus wrote:
"len"
"mint conditions"
"mushrooms"
"zoom" for long lens
"a lot of bokeh"
"Bokina" when used for lenses other than the Tokina macro (Bokeh+Tokina=Bokina) _________________ Follow this link for my FOR SALE list (partially updated 19.11.2015) |
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