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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 01:31:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180202013142.10655943@phoucgh.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4189554.co7EuDdkty@peak>

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On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 00:41:29 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> 9/10 for effort, though, as my Dad might have said.  :)
> 
> (He was a teacher, and he never gave 10/10 for anything because, he
> said, surely there must always be some room for improvement. You see
> what we children had to cope with...)

Good for him. 10/10 means "well done, but you're never going to get any
better". A depressing concept :(


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Shotgun wedding: A case of wife or death.

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-02  1:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-01 17:03 [gentoo-user] [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers Peter Humphrey
2018-02-01 18:12 ` Rich Freeman
2018-02-01 18:27   ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2018-02-01 18:47     ` Philip Webb
2018-02-01 18:50       ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-01 19:09         ` Grant Taylor
2018-02-01 19:25           ` Rich Freeman
2018-02-01 21:17         ` Philip Webb
2018-02-01 22:24           ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-01 23:39             ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-02  0:04               ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-02  0:36                 ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-02  1:30                   ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-02  4:48                   ` allan gottlieb
2018-02-02  5:31                     ` Floyd Anderson
2018-02-01 23:36       ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-01 18:55   ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2018-02-01 22:45     ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2018-02-01 23:03       ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-01 22:52     ` [gentoo-user] [OT] " Frank Steinmetzger
2018-02-01 23:05       ` Jack
2018-02-01 23:34         ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2018-02-02  0:05           ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-02  0:08           ` Jack
2018-02-03  0:19             ` Wol's lists
2018-02-03  8:43               ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-03 17:24                 ` Wols Lists
2018-02-03 18:32                   ` Philip Webb
2018-02-01 23:42         ` [gentoo-user] " Frank Steinmetzger
2018-02-01 23:43       ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-02  7:34       ` Alan McKinnon
2018-02-02  7:47         ` Frank Steinmetzger
2018-02-02  7:46           ` Alan McKinnon
2018-02-02  8:10         ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-02 10:06           ` Alan McKinnon
2018-02-02 17:28           ` Grant Taylor
2018-02-03  0:21             ` Wol's lists
2018-02-02  4:06     ` Grant Taylor
2018-02-02  8:03       ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-02 20:05         ` Grant Taylor
2018-02-02 20:34           ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-02 23:44             ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-03  8:44               ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-02 20:37           ` allan gottlieb
2018-02-01 23:45   ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-02  0:25 ` R0b0t1
2018-02-02  0:41   ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-02  1:31     ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2018-02-02  1:58       ` Rich Freeman
2018-02-03 13:46   ` Frank Steinmetzger

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