From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NrsqQ-0002xv-40 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:59:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 27399E0770; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:59:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail2.pcorp.com.au (mail2.pcorp.com.au [150.101.72.19]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3EFCE0770 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:59:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail2.pcorp.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id E05231074068 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:28:59 +0930 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mail2.pcorp.com.au Received: from mail2.pcorp.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail2.pcorp.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id L758zTQGp8Z7; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:28:59 +0930 (CST) Received: from [172.16.0.62] (dsl-203-113-238-189.SA.netspace.net.au [203.113.238.189]) by mail2.pcorp.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF9171074067 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:28:58 +0930 (CST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it. From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20100317075649.GA2836@Cauthorn.Fullrate> References: <4B9F4491.4050105@gmail.com> <20100316171931.GA19373@math.princeton.edu> <20100316173311.GE4499@Cauthorn.Fullrate> <201003170117.58328.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <20100317075649.GA2836@Cauthorn.Fullrate> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:28:16 +0930 Message-ID: <1268830696.6194.27.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c496756a-fe1b-4c00-9f44-a511a36ebfea X-Archives-Hash: d895ad50d902872b3e6f9919df6e0940 On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 08:56 +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 01:17:58AM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Tuesday 16 March 2010 17:33:13 Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: > > > > > usually always look to see if ... > > > > Sorry, but I'm having terrible trouble parsing this expression. > > Haha, no wonder. In the initial reply I had written that I left my > brain somewhere. I think that illustrates it quite well :P I don't see any need for excuses, it sounds like fine common English to me, with the possible exception of a run-on "if". The full sentence was "I usually always look to see if Dale has been involved in a thread if HAL is mentioned" -- Iain Buchanan In war, truth is the first casualty. -- U Thant