(Please excuse my English, as it's not my native tongue).
Craig Sanders dijo:
small minded people think that dictionaries prescribe language.
anyone who has studied even basic linguistics knows that they do not,
linguistics is a *DESCRIPTIVE* discipline...it does not presume to
prescribe what
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 03:37:15PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
btw, as someone has mentioned privately, 'howto' is no more a word than
'zonefile' is. perhaps there should be auto spelling-flame bug reports
on every package that uses 'howto'
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 08:15:40PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
any search on google or other search engines will reveal many thousands
of uses of the word 'zonefile'. like i said, it's in common usage in
the field and has been for years. but that couldn't possibly be
evidence, could it?
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 08:15:40PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
any search on google or other search engines will reveal many thousands
of uses of the word 'zonefile'. like i said, it's in common usage in
the field and has been for years. but that couldn't possibly be
evidence, could it?
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Craig Sanders wrote:
a discussion on debian-devel is not policy. and even if it was
established as policy, i would as a matter of principal refuse to accept
anyone's idiosyncratic spelling rules.
No, of course not. Policy is policy. But policy does not come first.
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Craig Sanders wrote:
yawn. you're wrong. again.
I have seen no quotes from you, of other, *outside* sources, that show
'zonefile' in widespread use. I *have* seen posts saying that 'zone file' is,
however.
i'm just pissed off by trivial bug reports about bugs that
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 02:55:13AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Craig Sanders wrote:
yawn. you're wrong. again.
I have seen no quotes from you, of other, *outside* sources, that show
'zonefile' in widespread use. I *have* seen posts saying that 'zone
file' is, however.
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 02:55:13AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Craig Sanders wrote:
yawn. you're wrong. again.
I have seen no quotes from you, of other, *outside* sources, that show
'zonefile' in widespread use. I *have*
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in a word, No.
btw, learn to spell authoritative.
OTOH, it's kind of amusing to read someone who can't spell attempt to
harangue me over spelling.
craig
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On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 08:52:41PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
OTOH, it's kind of amusing to read someone who can't spell attempt to
harangue me over spelling.
It's kind of amusing to observe someone who can't perceive the practical
differences between package descriptions and conversational
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 07:37:44AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
It's kind of amusing to observe someone who can't perceive the practical
differences between package descriptions and conversational mail
messages.
However, conversational mail messages can demonstrate actual
language usage; eg
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[ drivel deleted ]
[Real drivel removed]
OTOH, it's kind of amusing to read someone who can't spell attempt to
harangue me over spelling.
It's NOT amusing to read this thread any more.
Get real! Stop being such an a...e. Start doing
som real
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 14:49, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 07:37:44AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
It's kind of amusing to observe someone who can't perceive the practical
differences between package descriptions and conversational mail
messages.
However, conversational
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Craig Sanders wrote:
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in a word, No.
So, you refuse to fix a bug. You refuse to provide reasons why.
btw, learn to spell authoritative.
I never said that my spelling of that was correct. And seen Branden's
response(mail(like irc) is conversational,
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 02:37:47PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
I never said that my spelling of that was correct. And seen Branden's
response(mail(like irc) is conversational, similiar to spoken speech, and
therefor has no need for spelling rules to be applied to it).
I wouldn't go that far.
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