From: Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 21:41:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5AC689EA.3080501@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2459357.okX7Qq0oeU@peak>
On 05/04/18 18:12, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Thursday, 5 April 2018 12:47:43 BST Wol's lists wrote:
>> > On 05/04/18 09:57, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>> > > Indeed, and that's more-or-less how I see the usual American insistence on
>>> > > a comma before the "and" before the last item in a list, even though it
>>> > > gets in the way and introduces ambiguity - the infamous Oxford comma.
>>> > >
>>> > > But that's a whole new can of worms.
>> >
>> > I think we should table that ...
> Do you mean shelve it? In this country, tabling something means putting it on
> the table - for discussion.
>
Didn't you look at my email address :-) But yes I know the meaning
depends on nationality, which is exactly why I said it ... :-)
(Oh - and the meaning in both languages is actually a lot closer than
most people realise, as was explained to me somewhere ...)
Cheers,
Wol
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-30 22:28 [gentoo-user] Firefox and addons no longer supported question Dale
2018-03-31 1:57 ` Adam Carter
2018-03-31 2:23 ` Dale
2018-03-31 2:35 ` tuxic
2018-03-31 2:45 ` Dale
2018-03-31 3:05 ` tuxic
2018-03-31 3:36 ` Dale
2018-03-31 3:45 ` tuxic
2018-04-02 8:54 ` Dale
2018-04-02 8:59 ` Dale
2018-04-02 15:21 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2018-04-02 15:26 ` Daniel Frey
2018-04-02 15:44 ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-04-02 17:19 ` Philip Webb
2018-04-02 16:18 ` Martin Vaeth
2018-04-02 20:14 ` Dale
2018-04-02 20:50 ` Philip Webb
2018-04-02 21:08 ` Dale
2018-04-03 8:28 ` Peter Humphrey
2018-04-03 9:02 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-04-03 10:18 ` Marc Joliet
2018-04-03 9:53 ` [gentoo-user] frenchspacing (was: Firefox and addons no longer supported question) Martin Vaeth
2018-04-04 18:12 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question Wol's lists
2018-04-05 7:23 ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-04-05 8:57 ` [gentoo-user] [OT] " Peter Humphrey
2018-04-05 11:23 ` Mick
2018-04-05 11:53 ` Wol's lists
2018-04-05 11:47 ` Wol's lists
2018-04-05 17:12 ` Peter Humphrey
2018-04-05 17:53 ` Mick
2018-04-05 20:39 ` Wols Lists
2018-04-05 20:41 ` Wols Lists [this message]
2018-04-03 20:28 ` [gentoo-user] " Walter Dnes
2018-03-31 3:42 ` [gentoo-user] " tuxic
2018-03-31 12:18 ` [gentoo-user] Firefox with tab-grouping Philip Webb
2018-03-31 18:45 ` Dale
2018-03-31 8:18 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question Martin Vaeth
2018-03-31 10:17 ` Arve Barsnes
2018-03-31 10:37 ` tuxic
2018-03-31 13:21 ` Martin Vaeth
2018-03-31 17:36 ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-04-01 9:15 ` Martin Vaeth
2018-04-01 14:35 ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-04-01 16:29 ` Martin Vaeth
2018-04-01 22:26 ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-04-01 23:22 ` Dale
2018-04-02 0:28 ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-04-02 1:44 ` Bill Kenworthy
2018-04-02 5:41 ` Martin Vaeth
2018-04-02 7:37 ` tuxic
2018-04-02 8:23 ` Martin Vaeth
2018-04-02 8:32 ` tuxic
2018-04-02 8:33 ` Dale
2018-04-02 8:50 ` Walter Dnes
2018-04-02 10:14 ` Martin Vaeth
2018-04-02 9:48 ` Bill Kenworthy
2018-04-02 10:24 ` Martin Vaeth
2018-04-02 0:20 ` Michael King
2018-04-01 15:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Taiidan
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