Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 02:01:21
Message-Id: 20120829035740.035370bf@khamul.example.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try? by Michael Mol
1 On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:43:29 -0400
2 Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
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4 > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Alan McKinnon
5 > <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
6 > > On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:28:31 -0400
7 > > Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
8 > >
9 > >> > Is this a problem with the English language? I thought I knew it
10 > >> > inside- out, upside-down and back-to-front. I still think so. Yet
11 > >> > your account has you tying yourself in knots over a known fault.
12 > >>
13 > >> Too many uses of the insufficiently-explicit "the board"...but (in
14 > >> English) such ambiguities are usually resolved by surrounding
15 > >> context.
16 > >
17 > > <evil thought>
18 > > hey, here's an idea, let's fix that by using Hungarian decorators
19 > > on all English nouns!
20 >
21 > What, and get Esperanto? (Or Latin. Or Italian. Or Spanish.)
22 >
23 >
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25 Or Fanagalo.
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27 It exists - go on, google it :-)
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32 Alan McKinnon
33 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com