On 06/02/11 at 02:08pm, Tom Furie wrote: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 11:15:37AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Stan Hoeppner a écrit : > > > > > > You're much better off simply changing sources.list right > > > before your next distribution upgrade. This is what Debian recommends, > > > oddly enough > > > > Oddly ? > > It's another of the strange idioms of the English language. That usage > of "oddly enough" actually means something more like "and it should be > blatantly obvious why that is the case". Without the "enough" tagged on > it would really mean "oddly".
Not to get into language lessons, but although it is frequently (mis-)used this way, oddly enough really does mean the same thing as oddly. It is just very rarely used without sarcasm or irony. -- Liam
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