From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:36:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910131036.42318.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910130903.13463.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 10:03:13 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday 12 October 2009 21:17:47 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > In theory you could pollute English with decent German grammar and slowly
> > deprecate the idiocies over time.
>
> Is that the sort of decent grammar that insists on putting all adverbs
> before their verbs, or that inserts a comma between a verb and its object?
There's nothing wrong with either of those things, a language is built by
convention after all. If you know the convention, you can use the language.
And German has no need to use the English conventions.
But German is consistent. English is not consistent.
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-13 8:37 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 [this message]
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
2009-10-14 14:23 ` Peter Humphrey
2009-10-11 17:36 ` KH
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