From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:38:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910122238.12857.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910122113.26455.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
On Monday 12 October 2009 22:13:26 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:18:04 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > 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 :-)
>
> Even allowing for the smiley, this isn't true. English makes perfect sense
> to me.
>
Come live and work with me for a week. I'll show you the average English
native speaker that lives outside of the British Isles. You can even listen to
them.
I dare say you are an exception to the norm, someone who in days gone by would
have been called "an educated man" or perhaps "a man of letters"?
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-12 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-11 9:04 [gentoo-user] Checksum error meino.cramer
2009-10-11 9:17 ` Dale
2009-10-11 9:58 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-10-11 11:07 ` [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: " Albert Hopkins
2009-10-11 11:17 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-10-11 19:21 ` Philip Webb
2009-10-11 19:23 ` Philip Webb
2009-10-12 9:39 ` Peter Humphrey
2009-10-11 11:18 ` Justin
2009-10-11 11:22 ` Albert Hopkins
2009-10-11 14:55 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-11 15:50 ` Mick
2009-10-11 15:54 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-11 18:57 ` Neil Walker
2009-10-11 17:02 ` Peter Humphrey
2009-10-11 17:37 ` KH
2009-10-11 17:39 ` KH
2009-10-11 20:40 ` Peter Ruskin
2009-10-11 21:21 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-11 21:25 ` Dale
2009-10-11 21:34 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-11 22:07 ` KH
2009-10-12 2:05 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-10-12 8:09 ` Dale
2009-10-12 9:40 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-12 10:13 ` Dale
2009-10-12 14:25 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-12 16:01 ` Dale
2009-10-12 16:32 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-12 19:31 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2009-10-12 20:33 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-12 21:23 ` Arttu V.
2009-10-12 19:03 ` [gentoo-user] " pk
2009-10-12 19:17 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-12 19:06 ` Neil Walker
2009-10-13 11:47 ` Dale
2009-10-11 22:04 ` KH
2009-10-12 1:47 ` Mike Edenfield
2009-10-12 4:15 ` Philip Webb
2009-10-12 9:18 ` Peter Humphrey
2009-10-11 21:18 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-12 19:37 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2009-10-12 19:58 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-10-12 20:14 ` Peter Humphrey
2009-10-12 20:46 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-10-12 20:17 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-13 8:03 ` Peter Humphrey
2009-10-13 8:36 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-13 10:04 ` KH
2009-10-13 10:56 ` Joerg Schilling
2009-10-12 20:13 ` Peter Humphrey
2009-10-12 20:32 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-12 21:22 ` Grant Edwards
2009-10-12 22:02 ` KH
2009-10-12 22:37 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-12 23:20 ` Grant Edwards
2009-10-12 23:28 ` Neal Hogan
2009-10-13 0:27 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-13 1:42 ` Grant Edwards
2009-10-14 19:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-10-14 19:46 ` Dale
2009-10-12 20:13 ` [gentoo-user] " Peter Humphrey
2009-10-12 20:38 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2009-10-14 14:23 ` Peter Humphrey
2009-10-11 17:36 ` KH
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