From: Zeerak Mustafa Waseem <zeerak.w@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:05:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100317130511.GB6612@Cauthorn.wlan.tnb.aau.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1268830696.6194.27.camel@localhost>
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On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:28:16PM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> 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 <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
>
> In war, truth is the first casualty.
> -- U Thant
>
>
Ah it's just using two different words that describe seeing something :-)
I like to think that my english is a little better. I mean it should have been "see if" or "look to see whether" (as far as I remember anyway :-))
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Zeerak Waseem
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-16 8:42 [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it Dale
2010-03-16 9:00 ` Dirk Uys
2010-03-16 9:15 ` Dale
2010-03-16 9:25 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-16 9:30 ` Dale
2010-03-16 9:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-16 9:59 ` Dale
2010-03-17 12:48 ` Iain Buchanan
2010-03-17 14:06 ` Dale
2010-03-16 17:39 ` James Ausmus
2010-03-16 19:29 ` Dale
2010-03-16 9:02 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-16 9:18 ` Dale
2010-03-16 10:13 ` Philip Webb
2010-03-16 10:31 ` Dale
2010-03-16 12:44 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-16 15:37 ` Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
2010-03-16 17:19 ` Willie Wong
2010-03-16 17:33 ` Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
2010-03-16 18:13 ` Dale
2010-03-16 18:38 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-16 19:25 ` Dale
2010-03-16 19:58 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-16 20:15 ` Dale
2010-03-16 21:28 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-16 21:42 ` Dale
2010-03-16 19:39 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-17 1:17 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-03-17 7:56 ` Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
2010-03-17 12:58 ` Iain Buchanan
2010-03-17 13:05 ` Zeerak Mustafa Waseem [this message]
2010-03-17 14:25 ` Willie Wong
2010-03-18 0:29 ` Iain Buchanan
2010-03-18 1:57 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2010-03-18 9:52 ` Willie Wong
2010-03-18 16:58 ` Frank Steinmetzger
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