On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 02:28, 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'.
In my part of the world we refer to more than 1 pointing device as rodents :) > 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. Perhaps thats just what we should do here too. Cheers Bob
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