On Friday 06 April 2012 23:43:37 Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > One of the keys to "plain English" is brevity. ;-) > > > > > > http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=4904#comment-303296 > > > > That is about spelling, not grammar. Since requires the perfect tense. > > It is > > It was supposed to be a joke. :( I didn't snip severly enough.
I am, I'm afraid, missing a joke-detecting radar. So blame my inability to detect a joke, not your own snipping. The first French I ever learnt was "Vous prenez les choses au pied de la lettre". (You take things too litterally.) 57 years later, I still do. :-( Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201204071050.28482.lisi.re...@gmail.com