ats:
"Melbourne will host the linux.conf.au conference in 2008, the event's organisers announced today."
It took several attempts for me to parse the headline correctly, since I'd never seen this (Australian) idiom before.
(For reference, "Guernsey: [...] Austral., a coloured shirt worn by Austral. Rules players; so to get (or draw) a guernsey, to be selected (for a team)", says the OED.)
I thought initially that someone was organising a Linux conference in the Channel Islands, which actually strikes me as a reasonably cool idea.
David:
Ahh! So that's what it means. I only looked at the headline and was rather confused.
ats:
Some of the more interesting US state flags.
Did you know Hawaii's state flag has the Union Flag in the top left corner? Would you recognise the flag of the Islamic Republic of South Carolina?
ats: "Melbourne will host the linux.conf.au conference in 2008, the event's organisers announced today."
It took several attempts for me to parse the headline correctly, since I'd never seen this (Australian) idiom before.
(For reference, "Guernsey: [...] Austral., a coloured shirt worn by Austral. Rules players; so to get (or draw) a guernsey, to be selected (for a team)", says the OED.)
I thought initially that someone was organising a Linux conference in the Channel Islands, which actually strikes me as a reasonably cool idea.
David: Ahh! So that's what it means. I only looked at the headline and was rather confused.