Betty or Veronica?

[Nate the Great]

Lexis/Nexus?

[mudshark]

No, Lexis/Nexis.

[Nate the Great]

Hardy har har. Seriously.

[catalina_marina]

Originally Posted by mudshark

Well, it's like this: an alarmingly large number of years ago, I studied German in school for two or three years -- not enough to where I could pretend I was actually fluent in the language, but I could get around in it a bit. After that, I never used it very much, but bits of it continued to stick.

Then, after a certain favorite musician/composer of mine died in 1993, I was using Lexis/Nexis to find all the articles printed about him that I could. Somewhat surprisingly (to me, anyway), many of the articles I found were in Dutch, and I discovered that, as long as they didn't get too complicated, I could more or less follow what was being written. In short, I can recognize bits when I see them and be able to understand what enough of them mean to get the gist of the article, but it's a very long way from actually knowing the right words or place-names for things.

It's a good way to say "I don't speak Dutch."

Originally Posted by Nate the Great

Lexis/Nexus?

Google it?

[mudshark]

Originally Posted by catalina_marina

It's a good way to say "I don't speak Dutch."

That's it, pretty much.

[Nate the Great]

So I go to lexisnexis.com and the first thing I see is "LexisNexis® is a leading provider of information and services solutions, including its flagship Web-based Lexis® and Nexis® research services." Thanks! That cleared THAT up!

I guess I could claim to have had a joke in mind with my typo about a LUXURY dream realm contained within a DESIGNER energy ribbon, but I can't claim to be that clever.