From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A09A138010 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 02:01:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 30B86E04D2; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 02:00:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f53.google.com (mail-wg0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D46DE027D for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:58:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbfm10 with SMTP id fm10so25649wgb.10 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:58:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=NNo98LfDOSWquvzH2CTMr8vdMnW7gzRLIlTThzsVBmo=; b=RXcokWPDczIqNP/bE9eZOm096O7mReHuySlRg1PHMnCu79qoGo1ZE2ne1t4D3w4j2+ G/EHPW2wtXqLHQr3FItfoZOUTeH2ICcxWPjpUgbdgHifl4yP8Mq9K8kGm1FheENzXnQk h6aVet3ON3W7u2oUHja9kurLgz39XcdpRLdpkjqjzgJKk+7/I+kqI7WP9NcXfaVQAvw/ jP3UKtVWpDM2Vf2UZ3DPq7XRXBquLlrSXTaaAh5bkURECh0IeAk2gGYJ3C1sgLAvWJLF JhiB4zbfeDUuILxQYv9aGwb6SCBlpgo739dW/HInQutsumD5penmADdhi5li1YmrAn9F T50Q== Received: by 10.180.24.197 with SMTP id w5mr34967319wif.22.1346205487164; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:58:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from khamul.example.com (196-215-205-207.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.205.207]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id cu1sm7753789wib.6.2012.08.28.18.58.05 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:58:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 03:57:40 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try? Message-ID: <20120829035740.035370bf@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: References: <502DF7D0.8010200@wonkology.org> <502E9E84.4060500@wonkology.org> <503D30C7.1000209@wonkology.org> <201208290115.30740.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <20120829023733.59d19ddb@khamul.example.com> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.11; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5f4f6c53-4ef7-4ad9-bef9-4247a2697807 X-Archives-Hash: 889569d023239bc4dbaa73bcad16ae45 On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:43:29 -0400 Michael Mol wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:28:31 -0400 > > Michael Mol wrote: > > > >> > Is this a problem with the English language? I thought I knew it > >> > inside- out, upside-down and back-to-front. I still think so. Yet > >> > your account has you tying yourself in knots over a known fault. > >> > >> Too many uses of the insufficiently-explicit "the board"...but (in > >> English) such ambiguities are usually resolved by surrounding > >> context. > > > > > > hey, here's an idea, let's fix that by using Hungarian decorators > > on all English nouns! > > What, and get Esperanto? (Or Latin. Or Italian. Or Spanish.) > > Or Fanagalo. It exists - go on, google it :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com