Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:36:47 -0400 From: michael <michael.copeland@gmail.com> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must Message-ID: <4ADA9B5F.4020504@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20091018053212.60b6ea4d@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <4AD8EB8F.9010900@videotron.ca> <20091017010758.088b8b8c.freebsd@edvax.de> <4AD9016E.20302@videotron.ca> <4AD90946.4020204@ibctech.ca> <4AD91DE0.3030701@videotron.ca> <200910170234.n9H2YeRI077329@asarian-host.net> <20091017034952.GA26451@stainmore> <20091018053212.60b6ea4d@gumby.homeunix.com>
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RW wrote: > On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:49:52 -0400 > Bob Hall <rjhjr0@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 02:34:40AM +0000, Mark wrote: >> >>> Actually, this has got very little to do with being a native English >>> speaker or not. It's ere a matter of intonation (which, in writing, >>> can only be conveyed to a certain degree, of course). 'Should' can >>> certainly mean "Don't try that." As in: >>> >>> Will the ice hold me? >>> Well, technically it should. >>> >>> (Meaning: it probably will, but I'm not overly confident.) >>> >> Actually, what's happening here is dropping part of a sentence. It's >> common in English to shorten >> Yea, it should work, but it doesn't. >> > > Not really, but the only sensible meaning is that it should, in an > ideal world, work. > > It seems that people are grasping for ambiguity here. If a phrase has > one sensible meaning and other absurd meanings then there really is > no ambiguity all unless one is trying to be deliberately obtuse. > > > i could have sworn this thread was about glabel and tunefs, whats with the grammar and linguistics? *note* not directed at RW > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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