No problem Brandon. Feel free to use any local sayings you like it is always
nice to learn something new. I am getting tired of that old "the straw that
brakes the camels back" which by the way in swedish goes "little tuft of
grass topples a chariot". What do you think, Bakis

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brandon" < bdu@... >
To: < Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com >
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 7:50 AM
Subject: Re: 1 OT:again ,about the club of the knobs...


> 5/12/2003 10:40:18 PM, "Andreas Lindholm"
> < andreas.k.lindholm@... > wrote:
>
> >What do you mean with this, Brandon
> >
> >"The fact remains that both give sticker shock
> >initially and require some amount of validation of what appears
> to be an
> >inflated price"
> >
> >Do you get shocks when inserting cables into modules of this
> brand or is
> >this just a feeling you high prices
>
> Sorry, I forget sometimes that people who are not native english
> speakers sometimes misunderstand special sayings like this.
>
> In english "Sticker Shock" means "surprise at a high price on
> an item".
>
> In the future I'll try to not use these kinds of phrases on lists that
> I know have a high percentage of non-english speakers on
> them.
>
> > I happend to like motm, and if you
> >build the kits it gets cheaper. Still they prices are just high
> enough to
> >have kept me from buying it, but I can see why people do.
>
> Yes, that was essentially what I was saying. Some people
> decide that the "better" hardware isn't worth the extra money,
> some people decide it is.
>
> -Brandon
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