On 27 June 2013 00:57, Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:09:13 -0700, rusi wrote: > >> On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 8:54:56 PM UTC+5:30, Joshua Landau wrote: >>> On 25 June 2013 22:48, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> > On Tuesday 25 June 2013 17:47:22 Joshua Landau did opine: >>> >>> I did not. >> >> I guess Joshua is saying that saying ≠ opining > > But it is. From WordNet: > > opine > v 1: express one's opinion openly and without fear or > hesitation; "John spoke up at the meeting" [syn: opine, > speak up, speak out, animadvert, sound off]
To give context; On 25 June 2013 22:48, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> (incorrectly) wrote: > On Tuesday 25 June 2013 17:47:22 Joshua Landau did opine: > > > On 25 June 2013 21:22, Bryan Britten <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Ah, I always forget to mention my OS on these forums. I'm running > > > Windows. > > > > Supposedly, Windows has "more" > > [http://superuser.com/questions/426226/less-or-more-in-windows], > > Yes, but less is more than more. > > > For Linux+less; this works: > > > > from subprocess import Popen, PIPE > > less = Popen("less", stdin=PIPE) > > less.stdin.write(b"\n".join("This is line number > > {}".format(i).encode("UTF-8") for i in range(1000))) > > less.wait() As you can see, my quoted text contained no *opinions*, at least of the nuance that "opine" refers to. > Admittedly we cannot tell what Joshua's mental state was at the time he > responded to Bryan, he may have been absolutely terrified for all we > know, but there's no sign of this fear, and no reason to think that he > hesitated, given that his response came through a mere nine minutes after > Bryan's comment. That's taking a very analytic turn... To clarify; I did have little hesitation but that was not the grounds to my objection. > Or if you prefer the Collaborative International Dictionary of English: > > Opine \O*pine"\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Opined; p. pr. & vb. > n. Opining.] [L. opinari, p. p. opinatus; akin to opinus > (in comp.) thinking, and perh. to E. apt: cf. F. opiner.] > To have an opinion; to judge; to think; to suppose. --South. > [1913 Webster] As this accurately sums up, to "opine" requires one to "judge" in some form, or to be "opinionated"; these are not things I did; I rather just referenced someone's work without openly judging it and stated (objectively so, you shall find) that some code worked. >> [Or is he opining?] > > That's just his opinion, man. > > *wink* -- (I wasn't expecting this to spawn so much discourse.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
