Not that you were unclear, I just couldn't resist the opportunity to poke fun.

db

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Jordan Erickson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Heh, sorry David, I was cut/pasting on my Asus EEE. What I meant was,
>
> "For example, FIREFOX doesn't crash during normal browsing or using Java
> applets"
>
> I.E.  - probably shouldn't have used that abbreviation, at least in the
> context of browsers - although your refined statement DOES tend to make
> more sense. ;)
>
> Cheers,
> Jordan
>
> David Burgess wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Jordan Erickson
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> [snip]...
>>
>>> (I.E. don't crash consistently
>>> during normal browsing or using Java applets)
>>>
>> ...[snip]
>>
>> Hmm, that's worded a bit roughly. How to fix that. Let's try
>>
>> "IE doesn't crash consistently during normal browsing"
>>
>> Reads better, but it still doesn't make sense. How about
>>
>> "IE does crash consistently during normal browsing"
>>
>> Maybe, but it's not really in agreement with your original statement,
>> so it's a bit of a stretch. One more try.
>>
>> "IE crashes inconsistently during normal browsing"
>>
>> I think we have it now: grammatically correct and effectively in
>> agreement with what you wrote. Don't mention it.
>>
>> (Sorry, couldn't resist :)
>>
>> db

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