On 12 July 2010 14:23, Jacob Nordfalk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 2010/7/12 Jimmy O'Regan <[email protected]> >> >> On 12 July 2010 09:55, Jacob Nordfalk <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Yes, continue or even break or interrupt would make more sense in an >> > action >> > tag. >> > At least to me, as a programmer. >> > >> >> 'rule', 'exception'. What's difficult to understand there? >> >> Anyway, I call bikeshed. > > You mean I 'give disproportionate weight to trivial issues'. > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikeshed) > Could you please just write plainly that you think Im wasting peoples time > then, avoiding us with lesser than perfect English to have to look it up.
That's not a general English idiom, it's specific to open source programmers. More than that, it's used on #apertium from time to time - often enough that I considered it reasonable to expect that you know what it meant. Anyway, Wikipedia gives a dry idea, but the original message to the BSD list gives a much better sense: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=506636+517178+/usr/local/www/db/text/1999/freebsd-hackers/19991003.freebsd-hackers But I digress. I gave a number of caveats, which I intended to be points of discussion. The name of the element is, in fact, a trivial detail, and it's one that, in m opinion, you're giving disproportionate weight to. > And you asked for comments here. And I didnt ask for insults. So try to > express yourself more polite if you want my comments. > Oh come on. You think *that* was an insult? Even expressed in Wikipedia terms: "Frankly, I think you're giving disproportionate weight to a trivial detail"... where is the insult? Or, more to the point, why are you so keen to find an insult where none was intended? > -- > Jacob Nordfalk > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > Apertium-stuff mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff > > -- <Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil. <Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
