Scríobh "Michael \(michka\) Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I always assumed the lowercase "i" was either meant to be something similar
>to devs but mean something like "information" to normal (i.e.,
>non-developer) types. Then, like any concept is has to be [over]used
>everywhere. Maybe someone from
At 11:41 +0100 2003-07-22, Marion Gunn wrote:
I read that 'i' (in the Apple context) as
meaning 'i(nternet ready)'. It is possible I
could be wrong about that. Am I?
Yes, you are.
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ME
Pim Blokland wrote:
>> I'm not sure that even all English users appreciate the computer
>> related jargon and acronyms that their geek developers want to
>> force them to learn and use.
>
> Hm... Personally I feel just the opposite. I think the computer
> industry has taken too many normal words
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From: "Philippe Verdy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] French Government Bans the Term 'E-Mail'
> On Monday, July 21, 2003 7:16 PM, Jon Hanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&
Scríobh "Michael \(michka\) Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I always assumed the lowercase "i" was either meant to be something similar
>to devs but mean something like "information" to normal (i.e.,
>non-developer) types. Then, like any concept is has to be [over]used
>everywhere. Maybe someone from
Philippe Verdy schreef:
> I'm not sure that even all English users appreciate the computer
> related jargon and acronyms that their geek developers want to
> force them to learn and use.
Hm... Personally I feel just the opposite. I think the computer
industry has taken too many normal words and f
On Monday, July 21, 2003 7:16 PM, Jon Hanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > eBook, e-mail, eBay, e-money, and all that gunk.
> > I suppose we could do without them. Even Apple's
> > gone weird about it. I don't know what the "i" in
> > the iLifestyle suite (iChat, iPhoto, iBook,
> > iThis, iThat) m
> eBook, e-mail, eBay, e-money, and all that gunk.
> I suppose we could do without them. Even Apple's
> gone weird about it. I don't know what the "i" in
> the iLifestyle suite (iChat, iPhoto, iBook,
> iThis, iThat) means.
e-jit, iDiot, iMbecile.
From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I don't know what the "i" in
> the iLifestyle suite (iChat, iPhoto, iBook,
> iThis, iThat) means.
For developers, a capital "I" usually means interface -- in code certainly
but then often applied in life as only geeks can do. I have fond memories of
n
Michael Everson wrote on July 21, 2003 at 12:00 > *All* words must be traced
to someone. They do not grow on trees.
They do so: in computer data structures , at least! ;-)
K
On 21/07/2003 09:00, Michael Everson wrote:
At 10:59 -0400 2003-07-21, Patrick Andries wrote:
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De: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
At 19:56 -0400 2003-07-20, Patrick Andries wrote:
>Obviously, the AP has found someone to say it is artificial.
Of course, al
At 10:59 -0400 2003-07-21, Patrick Andries wrote:
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De: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
At 19:56 -0400 2003-07-20, Patrick Andries wrote:
>Obviously, the AP has found someone to say it is artificial.
Of course, all language is artificial.
Well, at least all n
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De: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> At 19:56 -0400 2003-07-20, Patrick Andries wrote:
>
> >Obviously, the AP has found someone to say it is artificial.
>
> Of course, all language is artificial.
Well, at least all new words that can be traced to someone ca
Philippe Verdy wrote on July 21, 2003 at 1:48 AM
> This one decision of the official terminology group is not stupid: it
adopts a term that is now spread among French and Canadian natives,
Best avoid the phrase 'Canadian natives'. Even though it might theoretically
embrace all of us who were born
On Monday, July 21, 2003 2:01 AM, Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 19:56 -0400 2003-07-20, Patrick Andries wrote:
>
> > Yahoo's title is obviously overblown ("sexed up" like the BBC says).
>
> And isn't *that* the meme of the moment. One idiot said it and it
> spread like a virus.
Patrick Andries scripsit:
> Obviously, the AP has found someone to say it is artificial. Actually, a
> study made by the Quebec linguist Marie-Éva de Villers(*) shows that
> newspapers (like Le Monde) in France as in Québec tend to use more and more
> the term now preferred by the French governmen
Philippe Verdy wrote on July 20, 2003 at 6:23 PM
>also like the term "courriel" which sounds and writes better with the
French orthograph than the imported acronym "e-mail", or "email" (confuzing
with the French term "émail" which is the material that covers teeth, or a
decoration and protection ma
At 19:56 -0400 2003-07-20, Patrick Andries wrote:
Yahoo's title is obviously overblown ("sexed up" like the BBC says).
And isn't *that* the meme of the moment. One idiot said it and it
spread like a virus. Ick.
Obviously, the AP has found someone to say it is artificial.
Of course, all language
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From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Off-topic, but interesting. This just crossed my desk
>
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=518&u=/ap/20030718/ap_on_re_eu/france_out_with__e_mail__3&printer=1
Yahoo's title is obviously overblown ("sexed up
On Sunday, July 20, 2003 9:56 PM, Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Off-topic, but interesting. This just crossed my desk
> http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=518&u=/ap/20030718/ap_on_re_eu/france_out_with__e_mail__3&printer=1
This is not a ban of the technology, just a ban
Off-topic, but interesting. This just crossed my desk
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=518&u=/ap/20030718/ap_on_re_eu/france_out_with__e_mail__3&printer=1
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