Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting John H. Robinson, IV as of Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 02:25:43PM > -0700: > > So a meteor may be a streak of light, but it's not ONLY a streak of light.
Leave it to the English language to take a nice, unambiguous word, and pervert it into meaning something it was never meant to mean. > > You are not hit by a ``bright trail or streak.'' You are hit by a lump > > of rock. > > Correct. And that lump of rock is called a meteor. I shan't argue with you anymore about it. Nor, likely, any word, but instead call up the Humpty Dumpty Defense if something like this should happen in the future. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
