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On 11/05/2017 02:09, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 10 May 2017 23:33:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> I you read -dev, you could have replied to the original with a correct |
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>> fix :-) |
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> No good. I can't read C. I gave up in the '80s and reverted to assembler. |
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>> The author isn't English mother-tongue btw [1] |
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> Maybe not, but he's only following what the typical American is doing. |
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>>> (By way of explanation, 35 years ago I was made the documentation |
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>>> manager of a 200-man-year software project. Ever since then I've been |
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>>> unable to read anything at all without the eye of an editor - it's |
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>>> ruined my enjoyment of everything I read. There's no hope any longer.) |
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>> Oh noes. So you can't enjoy Pratchett? poor, poor you <shudder> :-) |
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> Sadness. |
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>> [1] Living in a country with 11 (yes, eleven!) official languages, all |
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>> considered legally valid for purposes of government with equal status, I |
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>> had to let go of English bias and accept that languages get mangled. All |
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>> the time. |
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> I sympathise. I couldn't live in a place like that. |
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>> Except for this new meaning for "revert". can't bring myself to accept |
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>> that one, too much like gouging out eyeballs with a blunt spoon. |
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> Eh? What meaning is that? I seem to have missed it. |
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In Africa, "revert" has become synonymous with "reply". |
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Causes no end of confusion when the firewall admin replies to a ticket |
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saying he'll do it and revert. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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