On Wednesday 19 December 2007 09:31:02 Patrick wrote: > On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 08:33 -0600, Tilghman Lesher wrote: > > On Wednesday 19 December 2007 07:40:21 James Collier wrote: > > > I think it should be "core dogs show black". > > > > No, that violates the pattern. "dogs" is not a verb. "core show black > > dogs" or "dogs show black" would be the correct form. > > Sorry but I'm not a native English speaker and I don't get it. Why is > "dogs show black" the correct form as opposed to the imho more correct > (in spoken language) "show black dogs"?
Because the form is always "section verb arguments", so "dogs" is the section, "show" is the verb, and "black" is the argument. I may not have come up with the convention, but I have faithfully enforced the convention, mainly for consistency. -- Tilghman _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
