Jack diederich wrote: ...
I think "fast talk" is a personal style or cultural thing and isn't related to geekiness. To cite two non-native English speakers (and python geeks) Christian Tismer is mile-a-minute and Alex Martelli never uses two words when one would do. The same spread applies to American speakers: Glyph Lefkowitz will talk you to death whereas Tim Peters (Buddhist author of "import this") would simply stab you and walk away.
Mile-a-minute -- does that mean something fast, like that fast-growing wheat? While searching for a translation, I stumbled over this one :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJHIACidds0 I never thought to be fast talking. Maybe I do it because I want to hide that I'm no native speaker. Bad fault. Will try the opposite at EuroPython, talking so slowly that I wake up from the audience's snoring :-) cheers - chris -- Christian Tismer :^) <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tismerysoft GmbH : Have a break! Take a ride on Python's Johannes-Niemeyer-Weg 9A : *Starship* http://starship.python.net/ 14109 Berlin : PGP key -> http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/ work +49 30 802 86 56 mobile +49 173 24 18 776 fax +49 30 80 90 57 05 PGP 0x57F3BF04 9064 F4E1 D754 C2FF 1619 305B C09C 5A3B 57F3 BF04 whom do you want to sponsor today? http://www.stackless.com/ _______________________________________________ EuroPython mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
