Morning Lau,
BIG SNIP
(and I used
that that that without qualms
I might be able to do better :
The owner of the Dog And Duck pub wanted a new sign painting and employed a
craftsman to do so. (You can tell how old this joke is, there are no craftsmen
left !)
When done, he went to admire
Lynn Truss missed this one.
Get the family to punctuate: Woman without her man is nothing
John.
On 1 Jun 2006, at 01:22, Tony Firshman wrote:
Laurence Reeves wrote:
snip
A la TF,
A le TF surely (8-)#
I deplore the loss of meaning specificity that a missed
apostrophe causes
Laurence Reeves writes:
PPS. Tony still hasn't told me whether he'd like to have fewer or less
computable numbers than points in a (mathematical) line.
Id vote for fewer because the words numbers and points represent
discrete objects. The reason it is confusing is that we are mixing up the
John Taylor writes:
Lynn Truss missed this one.
Get the family to punctuate: Woman without her man is nothing
Shouldnt that be: Lynne Truss? Missed this one.
See E,SL p9
Per
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Per
I don't think so, my daughter has my copy, but where is the
apostrophe in shouldnt?
John.
On 1 Jun 2006, at 10:24, P Witte wrote:
John Taylor writes:
Lynn Truss missed this one.
Get the family to punctuate: Woman without her man is nothing
Shouldnt that be: Lynne Truss? Missed
Not only did the Ancient Greeks develop a great language they understood human
nature quite well. At least if this is an accurate quote/translation:
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion.
Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they
Την Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:31:04 -0400,ο(η) Bill Cable [EMAIL PROTECTED]
έγραψε:
Not only did the Ancient Greeks develop a great language they understood
human
nature quite well. At least if this is an accurate quote/translation:
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to
PS. (this is a Pre-script, just for variety). I've always liked:
While marking their work, the teacher noted that John had written had,
whereas Jim had had had had. Had had had had the teacher's approval.
Just to wind up this one, from way back, Tony Firshman wrote:
One very common one now is
Marcel Kilgus wrote:
...
Curious fact: there are also 2 zeros! +0 and -0.
When I worked with Data/Basic on Pick, -0 was used to represent infinity[1].
Add 1 and you got the largest positive number possible, subtract 1 and you
got the largest negative number possible.
[1] Data/Basic used
Laurence Reeves wrote:
PS. (this is a Pre-script, just for variety).
Shouldn't that be AS: Ante Script?
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Phoebus R. Dokos writes:
I would say that usability defines what is right. The perfect example
would be Greek. Ancient Greek for example had words for almost everything.
Modern Greek doesn't and as a consequence it is a lot more periphrastic
now than ever.
For example an average increase
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