On May 11, 2017 11:20:49 AM GMT+02:00, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> 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 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 following what the typical American is >doing. >> >>>> (By way of explanation, 35 years ago I was made the documentation >>>> manager of a 200-man-year software project. Ever since then I've >been >>>> unable to read anything at all without the eye of an editor - it's >>>> ruined my enjoyment of everything I read. There's no hope any >longer.) >>> >>> Oh noes. So you can't enjoy Pratchett? poor, poor you <shudder> :-) >> >> Sadness. >> >>> [1] Living in a country with 11 (yes, eleven!) official languages, >all >>> considered legally valid for purposes of government with equal >status, I >>> had to let go of English bias and accept that languages get mangled. >All >>> the time. >> >> I sympathise. I couldn't live in a place like that. >> >>> Except for this new meaning for "revert". can't bring myself to >accept >>> that one, too much like gouging out eyeballs with a blunt spoon. >> >> Eh? What meaning is that? I seem to have missed it. >> > >In Africa, "revert" has become synonymous with "reply". > >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 can even test them? You *beeeeeep*" -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
