From: Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 08:47:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180202074736.GC5438@tp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d1670b38-9372-d277-6f8b-eab9e241ee6e@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 09:34:06AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > PS.: As a non-native, I always found e.g. and i.e. easy to keep apart
> > because when you say "e.g." as a word without the dots, it becomes "eg",
> > which, phonetically, is the start of the word "example".
> >
>
> As a native English speaker I can never remember the precedence rules
> about its and it's...
That is quite easy: the ’ *always* means something has been left out. "It’s"
it its unrolled form means It is. Once you start reading it aloud as such,
you will quickly get the hang of it. Try it, it is such fun.
> I vote we dump English in it's entirety and all switch to Python
How do you pronounce indentation?
--
Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’
Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network.
LOL, you said ROFL.
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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 [this message]
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
2018-02-02 1:58 ` Rich Freeman
2018-02-03 13:46 ` Frank Steinmetzger
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