Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 02/02/2018 09:47, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> 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 did say I can't remember the rules, not that I don't understand them :-)

I do remember there, their and they're though, that one gives many folks 
trouble. Of late I've decided that human languages are fuzzy, redundant 
and meaning can usually be determined from context. Not 100%, but 
usually close.

And now I don't care any more. Except "revert". That one still grates 
me; it is not "reply"

> 
>> I vote we dump English in it's entirety and all switch to Python
> 
> How do you pronounce indentation?

Like so: "tab tab space"



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Alan McKinnon
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