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On 02/02/2018 09:47, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
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> On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 09:34:06AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> PS.: As a non-native, I always found e.g. and i.e. easy to keep apart |
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>>> because when you say "e.g." as a word without the dots, it becomes "eg", |
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>>> which, phonetically, is the start of the word "example". |
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>> As a native English speaker I can never remember the precedence rules |
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>> about its and it's... |
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> That is quite easy: the ’ *always* means something has been left out. "It’s" |
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> it its unrolled form means It is. Once you start reading it aloud as such, |
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> you will quickly get the hang of it. Try it, it is such fun. |
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I did say I can't remember the rules, not that I don't understand them :-) |
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I do remember there, their and they're though, that one gives many folks |
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trouble. Of late I've decided that human languages are fuzzy, redundant |
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and meaning can usually be determined from context. Not 100%, but |
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usually close. |
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And now I don't care any more. Except "revert". That one still grates |
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me; it is not "reply" |
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>> I vote we dump English in it's entirety and all switch to Python |
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> How do you pronounce indentation? |
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Like so: "tab tab space" |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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