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On 12/05/2017 09:37, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> On May 11, 2017 11:20:49 AM GMT+02:00, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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 |
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>> 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 |
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>> 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 |
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>> 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 |
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>> 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 |
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>> longer.) |
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>>>> |
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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, |
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>> all |
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>>>> considered legally valid for purposes of government with equal |
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>> status, I |
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>>>> had to let go of English bias and accept that languages get mangled. |
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>> All |
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>>>> the time. |
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>>> |
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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 |
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>> accept |
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>>>> that one, too much like gouging out eyeballs with a blunt spoon. |
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>>> |
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>>> Eh? What meaning is that? I seem to have missed it. |
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>>> |
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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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> I'd be complaining about someone like that the whole time. |
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> "Why the *beep* will you revert all changes before we can even test them? You *beeeeeep*" |
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True story: |
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I used to do exactly that, then got into horrible trouble with HR, and |
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disciplinary hearing and $DEITY knows what else. |
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Turned out one of the fellows I called a *beeeeeep* was the CEO of our |
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subsidiary in Ghana |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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