Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 11 October 2009 19:02:07 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Sunday 11 October 2009 15:55:47 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Well, at least now we know that English contains at least one word that
> > is less ambiguous than the German equivalent.
> >
> > I would not have thought it could be done.
> 
> English contains many ambiguities, but if you know the current idiom they
>  all disappear, or at least recede. The difficulty is in keeping up with
>  the idiom. Personally, I prefer to rely on what I've known for the last 60
>  years or so and to hell with the trendies.
> 
> Things like "its" = "belonging to it"; "it's" = "it is".
> 

English is a mess. As a language it's worse than a pig's breakfast and makes 
almost no sense whatsoever to non-native speakers. Mind you, it makes about as 
much sense to native speakers as well :-) I had to take 5 years of Latin study 
in high school to understand how my own mother tongue works. Sad indictment 
for a language wouldn't you say?

I heard once that Perl is modelled after English. Pah! I reckon that's BS - 
Perl makes much too much sense for that. Brainfuck is the one modelled after 
English :-)

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