From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 18 04:36:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E0A9106568F for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:36:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.copeland@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f171.google.com (mail-yx0-f171.google.com [209.85.210.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FAF18FC08 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:36:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe1 with SMTP id 1so2946869yxe.3 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:36:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=tSfCHRQSR8U15DLxBbyjEvcvHtcPVbqdr9YHzwJSEcw=; b=w9eVIs0UJH2QHaE8nh0NocukDx656mFE4lbPVxzAhr3Yss9v5HDsKsPXV0pBEaaYfU qFO0ewVmBY6KMweT8jwUgmuUo/ok8pJPdYw+6Zr8w4d2XypBUeBlj3qbXXTsObM8Dx46 ntsprxMYG00EXEVZTe5B92koySSc8blkNeh/4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=AjmKh892MprFWE1O0X7eqWGg63AqrBHI+C5uVEzWuafcuZkB4ptt9DthKJJi6umAU8 bZS15roxmUhCC5xCa42U53QKmaaE7W/6WkHAUkDV/olSw+AwIVYzD5/VpCMxLKZw/meY Cql2bG1xAbl+KIF8SXitSyzsqTIwrAnclnbCw= Received: by 10.150.65.19 with SMTP id n19mr5572214yba.233.1255840604675; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:36:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.76? (99-166-165-150.lightspeed.jcvlfl.sbcglobal.net [99.166.165.150]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 13sm938739gxk.1.2009.10.17.21.36.43 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:36:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4ADA9B5F.4020504@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:36:47 -0400 From: michael User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: RW 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> In-Reply-To: <20091018053212.60b6ea4d@gumby.homeunix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:36:45 -0000 RW wrote: > On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:49:52 -0400 > Bob Hall 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" >