Latin's a dead language As dead as dead can be It killed off all the Romans And now it's killing me
On 7/29/10, Bryan Irvine <sparcta...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard <eagir...@cox.net> wrote: >> From: Marco Peereboom <slash () peereboom ! us> >> Date: 2010-07-29 23:25:14 >> >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 01:17:28AM +0400, Vadim Zhukov wrote: >>> > On 30 July 2010 c. 00:37:23 Kenneth R Westerback wrote: >>> > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:54:29AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz >>> > > wrote: >>> > > > >>>>> "Jason" == Jason McIntyre <j...@kerhand.co.uk> writes: >>> > > > >>> > > > Jason> fixed this and the syslogd_flags example above it, which >>> > > > Jason> had >>> > > > the same Jason> error. >>> > > > >>> > > > The style guide for a former employer of mine forbid these, >>> > > > requiring us to spell out "for example" and "that is". Even if >>> > > > you can get them right, it's not obvious that the reader would >>> > > > know them as well. >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > -- >>> > > > Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 >>> > > > 503 777 0095 <mer...@stonehenge.com> >>> > > > <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix >>> > > > consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See >>> > > > http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside >>> > > > discussion >>> > > >>> > > You mean not everyone speaks enough latin to know the difference >>> > > between "exempli gratia" and "id est"? What is modern education >>> > > coming to. >>> > >>> > Well, here, in Russia, while English/German/French are more or less >>> > popular in the schools, Latin is being learned by specialists only >>> > (medicians, historians etc.) almost. And it's the way it is for >>> > about a century, if not more. >>> >>> In russia latin learns you! >> >> Omnia dici possunt Latine. > > Romanus eunt domus > > -- Sent from my mobile device http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk "This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity." -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation. "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted." -- Gene Spafford learn french: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30v_g83VHK4
