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karent · Jul 12, 2005, 01:52 PM

I'm on hold, "The estimated wait time is 10 minutes." So I'm reading MacNN while I wait.

Will one of you Brits please explain the use of "whilst?"

Can I say "I read whilst I waited?"

Thank you.

budster101 · Jul 12, 2005, 01:54 PM

On hold with who?

Mastrap · Jul 12, 2005, 01:59 PM

whilst and while are interchangeable.

budster101 · Jul 12, 2005, 02:00 PM

Or is that whom?

Mastrap · Jul 12, 2005, 02:04 PM

I was wondering that myself.

RAILhead · Jul 12, 2005, 02:07 PM

Whom.

budster101 · Jul 12, 2005, 02:08 PM

Dangit. I'm just too lazy to edit it so consider this the correction.

dreilly1 · 02:16 PM

BlueSky · Jul 12, 2005, 02:17 PM

If you want to go with the works, you can say "I perused whilst I lingered."

Demonhood · Jul 12, 2005, 02:33 PM

just remember that they can hear you while you're on hold.

the possibilities....

OwlBoy · Jul 12, 2005, 02:41 PM

Originally Posted by Demonhood

just remember that they can hear you while you're on hold.

the possibilities....

karent · Jul 12, 2005, 02:43 PM

Originally Posted by budster101

On hold with who?

Whom.

Billing.

budster101 · Jul 12, 2005, 02:45 PM

me too.

Billing for whom?

karent · Jul 12, 2005, 02:48 PM

I can't think of an entertaining answer to that and the real answer is too boring to post

did you mean who is being billed or who is doing the billing?

Chuckit · Jul 12, 2005, 03:00 PM

Originally Posted by budster101

Or is that whom?

Easy way to tell the difference between "who" and "whom": Imagine whether you would use "he" or "him."

Who = he
Whom = him

"Who went to the bank?" "He went to the bank."

"With whom did you go?" "I went with him."

turtle777 · Jul 12, 2005, 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by Demonhood

just remember that they can hear you while you're on hold.
the possibilities....

THEY can hear you even when you're asleep

-t

budster101 · Jul 12, 2005, 03:46 PM

That makes sense, because sometimes I've been on hold so long I take a nap...

Chuck: Thanks for that bit of info! "Whom" v. "Who".

karent · Jul 12, 2005, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by budster101

"Whom" v. "Who"

Supreme Court case?

budster101 · Jul 12, 2005, 08:31 PM

I was jus teasing about being so inquisitive. It's really none of my business who you are on hold with.

karent · Jul 13, 2005, 09:06 AM

Originally Posted by budster101

I was jus teasing about being so inquisitive. It's really none of my business who you are on hold with.

It's really none of my business with WHOM you are on hold.

sheesh.

vexborg · Jul 13, 2005, 09:15 AM

Originally Posted by budster101

That makes sense, because sometimes I've been on hold so long I take a nap...

Chuck: Thanks for that bit of info! "Whom" v. "Who".

Doctor ?

karent · Jul 13, 2005, 09:26 AM

Originally Posted by vexborg

Doctor ?

ok, half point.

be more specific for full credit.

karent · Jul 13, 2005, 09:30 AM

vexborg: many congrats, (just read your sig). I only know of Skye because it's mentioned in a Proclaimers' song. Is it pretty there?

vexborg · Jul 13, 2005, 11:58 AM

Originally Posted by karent

vexborg: many congrats, (just read your sig). I only know of Skye because it's mentioned in a Proclaimers' song. Is it pretty there?

Thanks a lot!

Yes, Isle of Skye is in my opinion, the most beautiful place in the world... Wild unspoiled nature, the sea arund the island, the mountains and the wee villages scattered there...

Isle of Skye Photos and some more photos - ok, the last links also has pictures from the whole of Scotland and not only Skye, but anyways a stunningly beautiful place!

It's going to a wedding with me in a kilt (Black Watch tartan), and my girlfriend in her own dress - she spend 5 months making it.

nonhuman · Jul 13, 2005, 01:14 PM

I was once on hold with Microsoft for over 70 minutes. This was after I had already been on hold for about 20 minutes and gotten through to the first line of support idiots. It turned out that that first person had transferred me to a department that was closed at the time and didn't open up for another 70 minutes...