That's clutching at straws: gei means art or craft, and was only ever
mapped to gay after gay changed from happy to homosexual. You've
confused causation and coincidence.
On 28/12/2011 10:06, john lewis wrote:
Perhaps in this case it wasn't a change of usage so much as adoption
of a Japanese
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 06:48:59 -
Mike Austin mja...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Perhaps this thread should become What's In A Name?. Words often
change their usage and, therefore, meaning. 50 years ago the word
gay had a different meaning than now.
Perhaps in this case it wasn't a change of usage
On 28 December 2011 10:06, john lewis johnle...@hantslug.org.uk wrote:
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 06:48:59 -
Mike Austin mja...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Perhaps this thread should become What's In A Name?. Words often
change their usage and, therefore, meaning. 50 years ago the word
gay had a
On 27/12/2011 10:55, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
On 26 December 2011 18:24, Jacqui Caren jacqui.ca...@ntlworld.com
mailto:jacqui.ca...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Many many decades ago when I studied physics and computer science I had a
hard time
Can't be THAT many decades, as I recall
On 22/12/2011 22:28, hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Thursday 22 December 2011 21:28:15 Keith Edmunds wrote:
Right or
wrong, justified or not, that's reality.
Speaking personally, that jars considerably less than modern teenager-speak
for contact lenses.
Many many decades ago when I
On 23/12/2011 17:46, hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
Many people, I know, use Fahrenheit. But does it make sense to anybody??
Centigrade clearly doesn't to weather forecasters, several of whom have
recently said that temperatures of 11 degC are twice the seasonal
average - since twice implies
Celsius not centigrade!
http://chemistry.about.com/b/2010/09/20/difference-between-celsius-and-centigrade.htm
On 24/12/11 13:09, Simon Reap wrote:
On 23/12/2011 17:46, hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
Many people, I know, use Fahrenheit. But does it make sense to anybody??
Centigrade
Tony Wood ( hex 47 )
:-)
(from Linux PC)
On 23/12/11 11:12, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
On 23 December 2011 10:03, john lewis johnle...@hantslug.org.uk
mailto:johnle...@hantslug.org.uk wrote:
but 4F looks odd!!
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On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 09:55 +, Jack Knight wrote:
Well Jim, you've only got 1 year to go before you can (re)adopt the
practice I have done - i.e. quoting your rapidly increasing age in
Hex; 40 has a nice ring to it don't you think? ;^)=
I've long since adopted a mathematical system.
On 22/12/11 21:28, Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:17:07 +, aecl...@candt.waitrose.com said:
real
people using GNU/Linux operating systems.
Nobody outside geekdom uses GNU/Linux: they use Linux
You are pretty well correct in this, the cause is probably already
lost. Any
On 24/12/11 18:37, alan c wrote:
On 22/12/11 21:28, Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:17:07 +, aecl...@candt.waitrose.com said:
real
people using GNU/Linux operating systems.
Nobody outside geekdom uses GNU/Linux: they use Linux
You are pretty well correct in this, the cause
On Thursday 22 December 2011 23:11:04 Jim Kissel wrote:
hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Thursday 22 December 2011 21:28:15 Keith Edmunds wrote:
Right or
wrong, justified or not, that's reality.
Speaking personally, that jars considerably less than modern
teenager-speak for contact
On 22 December 2011 23:11, Jim Kissel j...@osml.eu wrote:
I've worn contacts since the late 70's. Maybe I'm younger in heart than
my 63 years would indicate. ;-)
Well Jim, you've only got 1 year to go before you can (re)adopt the
practice I have done - i.e. quoting your rapidly increasing
On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:55:18 +
Jack Knight j...@pobox.com wrote:
On 22 December 2011 23:11, Jim Kissel j...@osml.eu wrote:
I've worn contacts since the late 70's. Maybe I'm younger in
heart than
my 63 years would indicate. ;-)
Well Jim, you've only got 1 year to go before
On 23 December 2011 10:03, john lewis johnle...@hantslug.org.uk wrote:
but 4F looks odd!!
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On 23 December 2011 09:55, Jack Knight j...@pobox.com wrote:
Well Jim, you've only got 1 year to go before you can (re)adopt the practice
I have done - i.e. quoting your rapidly increasing age in Hex; 40 has a nice
ring to it don't you think? ;^)=
Cool. I am now 27 again! Yay.
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hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Thursday 22 December 2011 23:11:04 Jim Kissel wrote:
hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Thursday 22 December 2011 21:28:15 Keith Edmunds wrote:
Right or
wrong, justified or not, that's reality.
Speaking personally, that jars
Well I for one am glad that's been clarified, Keith.
TYVM
:-)
Tony Wood
from Linux Netbook
Ubuntu 11.10
On 22/12/11 21:28, Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:17:07 +, aecl...@candt.waitrose.com said:
real
people using GNU/Linux operating systems.
Nobody outside geekdom
On Friday 23 December 2011 11:12:10 Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
On my recent birthday, I rejoiced at being told that I'm only 21 Celsius!
Sorry to be dim, Chris, but are you saying that 21 Celsius is the same thing
as 70 Fahrenheit? Getting that far has taken me a mere 7 hours! Yes, I
suppose
I am staggered that the choice of the name of my group should cause so much
comment. Perhaps I should ask the editors of Linux Format magazine to be
more specific about their content.
Perhaps I should also contact Amadeus, one of the major players in the
travel industry, to ask what they mean by
On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:46:30 +
hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hello hants...@googlemail.com,
Sorry to be dim, Chris, but are you saying that 21 Celsius is the same
thing as 70 Fahrenheit? Getting that far has taken me a mere 7
hours! Yes, I suppose you are. But that took arithmetic.
On Friday 23 December 2011 19:53:35 Jack Knight wrote:
On 23 December 2011 17:46, hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Friday 23 December 2011 11:12:10 Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
On my recent birthday, I rejoiced at being told that I'm only 21
Celsius!
Sorry to be dim, Chris, but are you
On Friday 23 December 2011 18:58:46 Mike Austin wrote:
Fortunately the several members of this LUG who have already joined
understand my intent.
I'm sure that everyone did. Pedantry is just that, but most pedants know
perfectly well what other people actually mean. And it is sometimes
I have to apologise for not being very active in the group, but I have had a
very busy year after I recovered from a very nasty illness. I intend to
attend some meetings next year, as I am not that far away in Port Solent.
You may recall my mentioning, in previous posts, that I run an online
On 22/12/11 19:09, Mike Austin wrote:
Should anyone be interested, you can apply to join at
http://groups.google.com/group/linux-answers
Hi Mike and well done for the new group.
I guess you intend the group to be for the linux based operating
systems rather than the kernel only. Unfortunately
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:17:07 +, aecl...@candt.waitrose.com said:
real
people using GNU/Linux operating systems.
Nobody outside geekdom uses GNU/Linux: they use Linux. I've been using
Linux since 1993, and working with it on a daily basis for more than ten
years. The only people I have ever
On Thursday 22 December 2011 21:28:15 Keith Edmunds wrote:
Right or
wrong, justified or not, that's reality.
Speaking personally, that jars considerably less than modern teenager-speak
for contact lenses.
To me, a contact is either a person with whom I in contact, or a person with
whom I
I for one think it is quite appropriate for Mike to choose 'linux-answers'
as the name for the group he is setting up considering the expected
audiences. My wife who has put up with me for 35+ years, 15 or so of them
with Linux in the frame, knows what 'Linux' means (she adamantly refulses
to
hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Thursday 22 December 2011 21:28:15 Keith Edmunds wrote:
Right or
wrong, justified or not, that's reality.
Speaking personally, that jars considerably less than modern teenager-speak
for contact lenses.
To me, a contact is either a person with whom
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