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On Friday, January 21, 2011 02:53:57 Dale wrote: |
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> Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > On Thursday, January 20, 2011 14:47:24 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: |
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> >> Also "angry unhelpful tools"? You're putting words in my mail that |
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> >> aren't there. I said infra _used_ to be against that; it was obvious |
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> >> that knowing that I wouldn't just push the issue against their will. |
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> > |
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> > no, you didnt. you said "the Infra team has been against this idea". |
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> > you didnt say anywhere that infra had changed their mind, and this |
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> > statement made it sound like basically "screw infra, this is what QA |
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> > says, and if infra doesnt like it they can figure something out on their |
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> > own". |
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> Actually, yea he did. In your quote of him, he said "has been'. Maybe |
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> you misread it but that means they had a different view or opinion in |
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> the past but that has changed. |
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no, not really. "has been" is the present perfect continuous tense which |
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means he is describing something that has continued up to or through $now. |
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without explicitly stating that infra has changed their minds, my assessment |
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above stands. |
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yes, this is a nuance that might be hard for non-native (and probably many |
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native) english speakers to pick up, but that's why it's even more important |
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for people to provide more supplementary details so that they arent |
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misconstrued. |
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-mike |
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