2009/5/9 Rob Beezer <goo...@beezer.cotse.net>: > > Gonzalo, > > I don't think you have anything to apologize for relative to your > participation in this thread. To the contrary, your key questions > halfway through (that ended up in some other thread), I thought did a > perfect job of capturing the debate. > > Your English is great
Agreed. Anyway, many words in English derive from Latin: "non-sequitur" is in my English dictionary (though I do not have an American one). and your Latin is even better. See above. John > > Rob > > On May 8, 8:38 pm, Gonzalo Tornaria <torna...@math.utexas.edu> wrote: >> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg....@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> Indeed... but the OP claimed that a jpeg couldn't be a derived work of >> >> gimp because it's not a C++ program, which is a non sequitur. >> >> > Do you actually think a JPEG is a derived for of GIMP or do you >> > disagree with how I was arguing? If you merely disagree with my >> > argument, please don't misquote a small portion of it out of context >> > and use fancy latin words to make yourself sound smart. English words >> > work just fine. >> >> I apologize for the way I presented this. No offense was intended for >> anybody. I won't follow up in sage-flame, because it was never my >> intention to start a flame (I don't think this discussion has turned >> into a flame yet, neither by me or others, but I can see it has the >> potential to become one). I think licensing issues, although painful, >> are quite important and don't qualify as flames. >> >> BTW, I use latin words not to sound fancy, but because I think they >> may convey a message I want to share. Note that as english is not my >> native language, I've got some handicap wrt finding the correct >> english words for some things I want to say. You may want to factor >> that in when reading my posts (I mean, when I actually use english). >> OTOH, there are many latin expressions which are very commonly used in >> english (more commonly than in spanish, I'd say). >> >> I hope that this will be, as per William's request, my last post in this >> thread. >> >> Best, >> Gonzalo > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
