Ron Johnson posted on Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:28:23 -0500 as excerpted: > On 11/03/2011 05:47 PM, Duncan wrote: >> Ron Johnson posted on Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:34:09 -0500 as excerpted: >> >>> Anyway... "Task Manager" (Real Men run top(1) in a separate window...) >>> just reports what the kernel tells it. >> >> I parsed his "task manager" reference as to pan's TM, not the one in >> his DE, corresponding to top, etc. >> >> > Except that the pan TM doesn't appear when you run "pan --no-gui".
Thus this bit (I /think/ it's the correct number of quote levels)? >>>> The only way I was able to completely shut it up was to select all >>>> the items in Task Manager and delete them, when in gui mode. =:^) Perhaps that's why I parsed it as referring to pan's task manager, tho I obviously didn't take the time to analyze why, back then, the pieces simply fit together better when I parsed TM as referring to pan's, than otherwise. For more discussion of the alternate parsings effect, google "crash blossoms". Here's an explanation of how the name came to be (and a very amusing read it is), by Language Log's Ben Zimmer. (I came to know them thru language log, which I believe I'm mentioned here before, after originally stumbling upon LL while googling, IIRC, "toe the line" vs. "tow the line", the former being "correct", tho I was sure it was the latter, but that could well be its own subthread!) http://www.google.com/search?q=%22crash+blossoms%22 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/magazine/31FOB-onlanguage-t.html http://languagelog.com/ ( which redirects to http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/ , take your pick) Then of course there's also eggcorns and Lady Mondegreens... Suffice it to say that I have LL in my feed-reader now. Not only the articles themselves, but the comments as well. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
