On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:57:44AM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > Wouter Verhelst writes ("Re: Use of the first person in messages from the > computer"): > > A computer cannot refer to itself, because it does not have a self. > > I'm sorry, but that is completely wrong. > > "README" > "drink me" > "<someone> me facit" > > I'm sure others can come up with many other examples, ancient and > modern.
Examples of incorrectness in the past do not make the incorrectness correct. I have always felt somewhat awkward about the "README" filename; but since it's used mostly everywhere, everyone knows what it means. > I web searched for "inanimate object first person" and it seems that a > common task set in writing classes is to write an essay or story in > the first person from the point of view of an inanimate object. > > Or are we going to rename all our READMEs READTHISFILE ? I'm not suggesting anything of the kind. -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by the following formula: pi zz a -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120211184200.gj4...@grep.be