On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 18:37:52 +0200 Antony Stone <antony.st...@devuan.open.source.it> wrote:
> On Friday 07 September 2018 at 17:59:39, Edward Bartolo wrote: > > > On 07/09/2018, aitor_czr wrote: > > > El 07/09/18 a las 12:00, Edward Bartolo escribió: > > >> Aitor wrote: > > >> "I spent a lot of time downgrading the frontend from Gtk3 to > > >> Gtk2, because of the general preference in favor of this second > > >> one. The packages for jessie will be available in a couple of > > >> days." > > >> > > >> Thank you for caring about users. > > >> > > >> edbarx > > > > > > Not at all :) > > > > Why are you in denial? Don't bother, you will not get a halo above > > your head, but if you care, why don't you admit it? > > I think this is a linguistic misunderstanding - "Not at all" is a > common and polite English way of saying "you're welcome" or "don't > mention it" - basically a standard response to "thank you". To add to the confusion, whilst 'Not at all' is said to be common, it isn't where I come from, I have heard it, but not often. Our area of England would probably just reply 'Thanks'. > > There's as much point in interpreting the phrase literally as there > is with "how do you do?" That's a dangerous one ;-) In my area (and we would probably just say 'how do'), the reply would be 'nots so bad' or 'well, apart from my (add area of body here), I would be okay'. If the latter, a long discussion could ensue about health ;-) Best not to give responses on a mailing list in local phrases, most people will not understand them. > > > Please, make an effort to grow up. > > I think that is a very unfriendly and unnecessary comment. Yes, that was a bit uncalled for Rowland _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
