Post #251,250
4/6/06 8:35:27 PM
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Yes, but not quite the same.
It's a "holding tank" until it get dumped into proper sewage system. Actually two holding tanks, one gray and one black. The sinks and shower feed the gray and the toilet the black.
Alex
When fascism comes to America, it'll be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. -- Sinclair Lewis
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Post #251,515
4/10/06 9:00:48 AM
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So what, exactly, is (are) the tank(s) Scott (and mssrs..
...De Niro and Stiller) is (are) having problems with, then?
The stuff can't be supposed to sit in that tank for ever either, can it? (What would you do when it gets full; buy another one just like it and bury it next to the old one...?) Naah, AFAIK, the guys with the big suction hose come and slurp it up into their tank every now and then. (Wasn't it them that[*] Crazy CIA Dad [De Niro] spent most of the second half of the first movie frantically calling for?)
Peridocal emptying... JUST like the tank(s) on your RV.
[*]: Originally, I had written "Weren't they whom...", and while I still think that's not actually gramatically *wrong*, it doesn't look quite right either.
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Post #251,602
4/10/06 3:24:19 PM
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That goofy guy on Red Green :-)
Stop looking at my signature!
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Post #251,632
4/10/06 6:35:25 PM
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What's wrong with "they who.." ?
As in "was it not [they who]"
Intransitive 'to be'
(which constructs, I tend to check by reversing the order; if it still scans sans awkwardity-like-This-word, s'OK..)
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Post #251,721
4/11/06 9:44:56 AM
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Was De Niro calling they, or calling them?
Would you be calling he, or calling him?
That's what's wrong with they; they're not the subject, but the object of the action.
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Yes Mr. Garrison, genetic engineering lets us correct God's horrible, horrible mistakes, like German people. - [link|http://maxpages.com/southpark2k/Episode_105|Mr. Hat]
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Post #251,788
4/11/06 3:40:59 PM
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Re: Was De Niro calling they, or calling them?
In the romance languages, say Spanish with estar and ser - the intransitive nature is rendered clearer. In the US, especially now, with deterioration across the board.. there are far more egregious daily screwups (\ufffd l\ufffd 'me and him went to a ') which murder any idea of the er, mellifluous.
'Weren't they [those] whom..' works, technically. I suppose. The elided [those] has to be insertted by the listener. Awkward, that.
I think the phrase, 'they who blah blah', behaving somewhat as an object while-referring-to-a subject (!) scans better; and what "scans better" is oft lost in that kind of analysis as tends towards the turgid. Y'know?
I who be.
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Post #251,663
4/10/06 9:17:40 PM
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Septic systems.
[link|http://www.inspect-ny.com/septbook.htm|Here] is link with a diagram.
[link|http://www.inspect-ny.com/septic/lockwood.htm|Here] is link with some verbiage.
Basically, there is a lot of decomposition that occurs in the septic tank and then the effluent put out into the environment (the leach field). The solids that do not decompose go into the sludge that settles on the bottom. It is this sludge that is pumped out every few years.
Only a little of the decomposition occurs in a holding tank of an RV (or a boat that has one) before it is "dumped".
Alex
When fascism comes to America, it'll be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. -- Sinclair Lewis
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Post #251,719
4/11/06 9:42:01 AM
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Ah, I see. I had the English expression all wrong, then.
I thought it meant a closed system, a holding tank that needs to be entirely emptied of all you put into it (rather more often than every few years, unless it were gigantic), just like in your RV.
AFAICR, the kind your usage refers to have some longer name (with "decomposing" or "composting" or some such term in it) in Swedish, which set me off on the wrong track.
Oh well, live and learn.
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(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Yes Mr. Garrison, genetic engineering lets us correct God's horrible, horrible mistakes, like German people. - [link|http://maxpages.com/southpark2k/Episode_105|Mr. Hat]
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