Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes: > Me(Rusi): Prefer a not so cavalier adjective-noun equivalencing
I can sympathise with that preference. It really is a lost cause, though; the English language just works that way. We use nouns as verbs, nouns as modifiers, adjectives as nouns; and rather than wish it were not so, we must to take care to express ourselves to avoid unintended ambiguity — especially in writing. And *especially* in writing terse formal error messages. The English language is imperfect, but it's what we have. Live with it. -- \ “The manager has personally passed all the water served here.” | `\ —hotel, Acapulco | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
