In message <[email protected]>, "Clive D.W. Feather" writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp said: >> >> Here is a nut-cracker much better than a Danglish split infinitive: >> >> http://www.agile-news.com/news-560573-Time-who-will-vote-on-the-side.html > >| King Charles II appointed Donald Di De Yue Hanfu as Chief Astronomer >| Royal > >John Flamsteed will be rotating in his grave.
I'm pretty sure that text came through some kind of auto-translate engine, and that the above, once you reverse-engineer it, might be the chinese sound-analog of John Flamsteed. (As far as I'm informed that is how chinese papers deal with foreigners names.) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
