This thread has decended into a slightly pointless and certainly
bandwidth stealing argument about Language and spelling, so I thought
I would bring it back onto a computing track:
On 6 January 2011 19:42, Joe Zeff wrote:
>
>
> I probably learned how to use language like that long before you wer
On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 09:05 -0500, Tony Placilla wrote:
> "Viola" is the French from
> which such a hypothetical Americanism would have sprung.
No it isn't.
poc
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On 01/10/2011 07:41 AM, Jim wrote:
> I have been around since the Microcomputer came into being. and you had
> to build your own hardware.
*Shrug!* And I started out using an IBM 029 keypunch to put machine
language programs on punched cards for an IBM 1620 mini-computer with
20,000 individuall
On 01/10/2011 09:05 AM, Tony Placilla wrote:
> --snip--
>
> The thought of Joe being young is PURELY relative. At my age
> he might be. But he's not a kid just out of grammar school by just a few
> more decades than he may want to remember. He's also been mucking around
> computers "just a whole
> If "Wa-La" crept in through the transom sometime in the last decade or
> so I suppose Joe and I might have missed it. "Viola" is the French from
> which such a hypothetical Americanism would have sprung.
"Voila" - Viola is (alleged to be [1]) a musical instrument and somewhat
different 8)
Alan
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The thought of Joe being young is PURELY relative. At my age
he might be. But he's not a kid just out of grammar school by just a few
more decades than he may want to remember. He's also been mucking around
computers "just a whole long time." He is also quite reasonably literate.
On the
On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 02:32 -0800, jdow wrote:
> From: "les"
> Sent: Thursday, 2011/January/06 04:03
>
>
> > On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 10:45 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
> >> On 01/06/2011 09:59 AM, Jim wrote:
> >> > So the little birdie told me to look in the Fedora repo and Wa-La
> >>
> >> If you're g
From: "les"
Sent: Thursday, 2011/January/06 04:03
> On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 10:45 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> On 01/06/2011 09:59 AM, Jim wrote:
>> > So the little birdie told me to look in the Fedora repo and Wa-La
>>
>> If you're going to use a french word, spell it right: viola!
>
> do you mean
From: "Patrick O'Callaghan"
Sent: Thursday, 2011/January/06 11:26
> On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 14:05 -0500, Jim wrote:
>> On 01/06/2011 01:45 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> > On 01/06/2011 09:59 AM, Jim wrote:
>> >> So the little birdie told me to look in the Fedora repo and Wa-La
>> > If you're going to use
From: "Jim"
Sent: Thursday, 2011/January/06 11:05
> On 01/06/2011 01:45 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> On 01/06/2011 09:59 AM, Jim wrote:
>>> So the little birdie told me to look in the Fedora repo and Wa-La
>> If you're going to use a french word, spell it right: viola!
> You mean you don't know Americ
On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 10:45 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
> If you're going to use a french word, spell it right: viola!
Only if you're going to play music on it... ;-)
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On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 10:45 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 01/06/2011 09:59 AM, Jim wrote:
> > So the little birdie told me to look in the Fedora repo and Wa-La
>
> If you're going to use a french word, spell it right: viola!
do you mean voila?
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On 01/06/2011 11:26 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> poc (born 1949 if you think age is relevant to this)
Yeah. Me too. Same year. Back when I went to college, having to take
bonehead English, or any other *remedial* class was considered a
disgrace, not a badge of pride.
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On 01/06/2011 11:05 AM, Jim wrote:
> You mean you don't know American slang.
> You must a young person, you should give up being a English Teacher on
> the Internet.
I probably learned how to use language like that long before you were
born, and certainly before I went to 'Nam. Show some respe
On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 11:08 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 01/06/2011 10:56 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 10:45 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
> >> On 01/06/2011 09:59 AM, Jim wrote:
> >>> So the little birdie told me to look in the Fedora repo and Wa-La
> >>
> >> If you're going to
On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 14:05 -0500, Jim wrote:
> On 01/06/2011 01:45 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> > On 01/06/2011 09:59 AM, Jim wrote:
> >> So the little birdie told me to look in the Fedora repo and Wa-La
> > If you're going to use a french word, spell it right: viola!
> You mean you don't know American s
On 01/06/2011 10:56 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 10:45 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> On 01/06/2011 09:59 AM, Jim wrote:
>>> So the little birdie told me to look in the Fedora repo and Wa-La
>>
>> If you're going to use a french word, spell it right: viola!
>
> I presume you me
On 01/06/2011 01:45 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 01/06/2011 09:59 AM, Jim wrote:
>> So the little birdie told me to look in the Fedora repo and Wa-La
> If you're going to use a french word, spell it right: viola!
You mean you don't know American slang.
You must a young person, you should give up being
On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 10:45 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 01/06/2011 09:59 AM, Jim wrote:
> > So the little birdie told me to look in the Fedora repo and Wa-La
>
> If you're going to use a french word, spell it right: viola!
I presume you mean French and voilà.
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On 01/06/2011 09:59 AM, Jim wrote:
> So the little birdie told me to look in the Fedora repo and Wa-La
If you're going to use a french word, spell it right: viola!
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On 01/06/2011 12:40 PM, Jim wrote:
> Fedora 14 / Kde
> BSD-games-2.16
>
> GNUmakefile:1220: wump/wump.d: No such file or directory
> ./mkdep wump/wump.c wump/wump.d gcc -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wstrict-prototypes
> -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual
> -Wwrite-strings-Iinclude
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