Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Horrible English

2017-05-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 12 May 2017 18:15:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Causes no end of confusion when the firewall admin replies to a > >> ticket saying he'll do it and revert. > > > > I'd be complaining about someone like that the whole time. > > "Why the *beep* will you revert all changes before we

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Horrible English

2017-05-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On May 12, 2017 6:15:05 PM GMT+02:00, Alan McKinnon wrote: >On 12/05/2017 09:37, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On May 11, 2017 11:20:49 AM GMT+02:00, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >>> On 11/05/2017 02:09, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 10 May 2017

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Horrible English

2017-05-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 12/05/2017 09:37, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On May 11, 2017 11:20:49 AM GMT+02:00, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> On 11/05/2017 02:09, Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> On Wednesday 10 May 2017 23:33:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> I you read -dev, you could have replied to the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Horrible English

2017-05-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On May 11, 2017 11:20:49 AM GMT+02:00, Alan McKinnon wrote: >On 11/05/2017 02:09, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Wednesday 10 May 2017 23:33:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> I you read -dev, you could have replied to the original with a >correct >>> fix :-) >> >> No good. I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Horrible English

2017-05-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 11/05/2017 02:09, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 10 May 2017 23:33:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> I you read -dev, you could have replied to the original with a correct >> fix :-) > > No good. I can't read C. I gave up in the '80s and reverted to assembler. > >> The author isn't English

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Horrible English

2017-05-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 10 May 2017 23:33:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: > I you read -dev, you could have replied to the original with a correct > fix :-) No good. I can't read C. I gave up in the '80s and reverted to assembler. > The author isn't English mother-tongue btw [1] Maybe not, but he's only

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Horrible English

2017-05-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 10 May 2017 10:57:30 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 10 May 2017 10:09:26 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Be advised that switching from an older version to GCC 6 will ... > > > > Those first three words are redundant; they add nothing. > > Except for those of us that are paid by

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Horrible English

2017-05-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 10/05/2017 11:09, Peter Humphrey wrote: > "Can not" should be "cannot" (different meaning). > > I did say this is all off-topic. Apologies to anyone who feels aggrieved. I > could have suggested several other improvements as well, so I could say I've > let you off lightly. ;-) I you read

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Horrible English

2017-05-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 10 May 2017 10:11:36 Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:09:26AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote > > > On Tuesday 09 May 2017 14:29:16 Walter Dnes wrote: > > > It's a feature, not a bug. There's a news item being worked on in > > > the Gentoo dev list. I'd normally just

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Horrible English

2017-05-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 May 2017 13:50:40 +0100, David W Noon wrote: > > Except for those of us that are paid by the word ;-) > > ... those of us *who* are paid by the word. ... :-) who/that/what/is it's all the same price ;-) -- Neil Bothwick Fill what's empty, empty what's full, scratch where it

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Horrible English

2017-05-10 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:09:26AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote > On Tuesday 09 May 2017 14:29:16 Walter Dnes wrote: > > > It's a feature, not a bug. There's a news item being worked on in > > the Gentoo dev list. I'd normally just link to a mail archive, but it's > > too new to have been

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Horrible English

2017-05-10 Thread Kent Fredric
On Wed, 10 May 2017 13:50:40 +0100 David W Noon wrote: > those of us *who* are paid by the word. *whomst pgpDeD8naDnBF.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Horrible English

2017-05-10 Thread David W Noon
On Wed, 10 May 2017 10:57:30 +0100, Neil Bothwick (n...@digimed.co.uk) wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Horrible English" (in <20170510105615.7340c...@digimed.co.uk>): [snip] Except for those of us that are paid by the word ;-) ... those of us *who* are

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Horrible English

2017-05-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 May 2017 10:09:26 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Be advised that switching from an older version to GCC 6 will ... > > Those first three words are redundant; they add nothing. Except for those of us that are paid by the word ;-) I learned grammar by reading the collected plays

[gentoo-user] [OT] Horrible English

2017-05-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 09 May 2017 14:29:16 Walter Dnes wrote: > It's a feature, not a bug. There's a news item being worked on in > the Gentoo dev list. I'd normally just link to a mail archive, but it's > too new to have been archived yet. Here's a copy of the proposed news > item. (Quoting order