Re: [gentoo-user] [OT encfs] When encfs gets hungup

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 12 July 2011 04:27:18 Volker Armin Hemmann did opine 
thusly:
> On Monday 11 July 2011 23:43:06 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Monday 11 July 2011 17:26:36 Sebastian Beßler wrote:
> > > Am Mo 11 Jul 2011 17:18:16 CEST, Peter Humphrey schrieb:
> > > > I doubt I shall ever accept 'reoccur', any more than I
> > > > accept
> > > > 'transportation'.
> > >
> > > It's way OT but what is wrong with 'transportation'.
> > > If it is wrong, how would it be right?
> >
> > It isn't wrong, it's just silly. Americans love to add '-ation'
> > to everything. Just consider 'motivation', for example. It
> > nearly always means 'motive'. Ditto 'medication', which is
> > nearly always 'medicine'. I could go on all night, but this is
> > much too far off topic already. (I didn't mean to launch a
> > troll - I just get wound up about poor language - sorry. And
> > while I'm at it, an adverb should not precede the verb of the
> > sentence. This is not German. And in English we do not put a
> > comma between the verb and the predicate. Anyone who wants to
> > discuss things like this seriously is welcome to contact me
> > off-list.)
> >
> > > I'm not a native speaker so I might be blind to see the
> > > error.
> >
> > I can see that, but i'm impressed by your grasp of your second
> > language, which is incomparably superior to my grasp of your
> > first.
>
> well, your language is broken beyond help anyway (as everybody who
> was forced to learn this clusterfuck* realized in the second or
> third week) so why get your panties in a knot? It can hardly get
> worse. Maybe better.

Funny thing about English (and Perl, and Unix):

The thing that made it a real clusterfuck is the only thing that made 
it successful. Now that I think about it, that holds true for Intel 
too.



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