On 07/04/12 19:54, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 07 April 2012 00:39:58 Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> That is about spelling, not grammar. Since requires the perfect tense. >>> It is quite simply wrong in English to say "since.... installs". Leave >>> out the words "since Lenny", and "installs" becomes correct, but loses >>> some of the intended meaning. >>> >>> Lisi
Re-editing so that it resembles the post you didn't understand:- =======re-insert start=========== >>> One of the keys to "plain English" is brevity. >> http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=4904#comment-303296 ===========re-insert end========= >> >> That comment is tediously laboured attempt at humour in a monetising >> "story" ripped off from another April Fools joke. Any relevance to >> anything is entirely coincidental. > > Sorry, don't understand. Which bit don't you understand - the comment I was referring to (it's the comment in the link Chris inserted) or my comment on the comment the link referenced? > > Lisi > > I couldn't see the connection with the post and didn't realise it's insertion in the thread was meant to be a joke (I didn't read Chris's later post explaining it was meant to be a joke until, oddly, later). I still don't get why inserting it into the thread was meant to be funny. Now if it was a picture of two hippos in a river... that would make perfect sense. :-) Kind regards -- Iceweasel/Firefox/Chrome/Chromium/Iceape/IE extensions for finding answers to questions about Debian:- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/Scott_Ferguson/debian/ -- 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/4f8016d1.7000...@gmail.com