From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MxUJL-0000NT-QK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:28:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CD4B7E0807; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:28:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f189.google.com (mail-yx0-f189.google.com [209.85.210.189]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACEE1E0807 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:28:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe27 with SMTP id 27so8102584yxe.10 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:28:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=KQJb/Sj2D3WXQpvVNb8iZrm547epba7bR9XITKa5nBY=; b=lQlmfeEPZlYjIx5H8biymg+Eko/P1ZQFClFJxUh8DP3WwVEXuX/C4sS/JcGnvOYvdW 6HICpy4eG98ItPSVapJ3fzvp4J99KlZC4TBwf04ol20IZ1K+0wZaD2Z39DOOG2OY1mQ8 a8qIVcTVgJjzf8PqdvBqTzYpio8uYG/JmnFiU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=FbHVqYHFh1i2mZ6KBkWEOSa2uOZ4KPfOXbCKayuP+nv4ArkZIEtyZp8b+hdQt2Rd74 WZeKvLhy4YlyvRLj++I5/hJHF01juC/fiz6tX3RvPQgeKuu8rCeIbCAYLwYeszHiWnRC iKRev1ISib49ZwIWhH+tA/wL2tSNHwZ28PsPs= 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 Received: by 10.150.118.36 with SMTP id q36mr11115582ybc.277.1255390093762; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:28:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20091011090443.GE21168@solfire> <200910122232.12774.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <200910130037.19147.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:28:13 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error From: Neal Hogan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: c98a08aa-a17a-49d6-9bf8-74eb7c6f57d5 X-Archives-Hash: 512c00aa0fd4a531782df2a56b264703 >> >> If I tell you "ball" is the objective case and "the boy" is >> the subjective case, can you see where I'm going? It's still >> the boy that kicked the ball but the position denotes >> emphasis, not case. > > Ah, yes I see. =A0So you can then use position to imply whether > the statement is attempting to answer the question "what was > kicked?" or "who kicked the ball?" I haven't been following, but looked because I was curious what was going on in this thread that was OT to begin with . . . . ~3 days ago. Is this a comedy sketch? > > -- > Grant > > > >