On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 01:28:51PM -0200, Josenildo Marques wrote: > On Friday 14 November 2003 09:13, Margot wrote: > > Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > > On Thursday 13 November 2003 07:55 pm, robin wrote: > > >>Does he still start lists with "zero"? > > >> > > >>Sir Robin > > > > > > and wears old computer parts... :-) > > > > I've never heard of this, but I'm all in favour of recycling. I've got a > > couple of old 386's lurking under the bed, and a selection of keyboards > > and mouses (mice?). What sort of clothes do you think I could make? > > > > Margot > > The interview is great. I've just read it. > To me, it's inevitable to look at Mr Stallman and not to imagine a kind of > computer Jesus Christ ! :-) > (I don't mean to disrespect anybody's faith ! Please !) > > Margot, you're right. The plural of 'mouse' (i.e., the object you were > referring to) is 'mouses'.
I agree. Mice are animals. Mouses are not. Nut I wouldn't get upset about anyone who calls mouses mice. > Although I'm not a native speaker, I've read lots of texts on Linguistics. > I recommend the book The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker. It's a wonderful > read and not so full of difficult terminologies. Though I.m not quite a native speaker either (learned English at the age of 5 by moving to an English-speaking part of Canada. But I speak English better than Dutch, which is my native language.) -- hendrik > > Cheers ! > > > -- > JM > > http://cyb.ezdir.net/ > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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