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From: jmfbahciv on 1 Jan 2010 09:33 Peter T. Daniels wrote: > On Dec 31, 9:50 am, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv(a)aol> wrote: > >> I see I've been wasting my time. > > If you're referring to your pontifications on matters you know nothing > about, namely linguistics, then you may be right. I was trying to learn some stuff. It's too bad you are not interested in teaching it. /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 1 Jan 2010 09:34 Robert Bannister wrote: > jmfbahciv wrote: > >> <grin> I was extremely surprised by the number of people >> who didn't know Roman numerals. > > Isn't that why Hollywood adopted them so that people wouldn't realise > just how old the films were? > I had class sessions in grade school which taught them. IIRC, it was first or second grade. /BAH
From: Cheryl on 1 Jan 2010 09:50 jmfbahciv wrote: > Robert Bannister wrote: >> jmfbahciv wrote: >> >>> <grin> I was extremely surprised by the number of people >>> who didn't know Roman numerals. >> >> Isn't that why Hollywood adopted them so that people wouldn't realise >> just how old the films were? >> > > I had class sessions in grade school which taught them. IIRC, > it was first or second grade. > > /BAH > So did I, I think a little later, and I still remember some of them. I don't remember a lot of stuff I was taught in primary or elementary school, and I bet for a lot of people, Roman numerals come in the 'not remembered' category. I don't even know if they teach them any more, or if they don't, when they stopped. I'd be a lot more knowledgeable than I am if I remembered everything I was taught. I'd have gotten better marks in school, too. -- Cheryl
From: Harlan Messinger on 1 Jan 2010 10:14 Joachim Pense wrote: > jmfbahciv (in sci.lang): > >> António Marques wrote: >>> jmfbahciv wrote (29-12-2009 13:39): > ... >>>> I've been using Seamonkey which is web-based. >>> Uh? >> You wrote that you don't know of any other web interface newsgroup >> software.... I thought i would point you to one that isn't >> as painful as Google's. >> > > But the fact that Seamonkey has a web-browser functionality doesn't make > it's news-reader functionality web-based, does it? SeaMonkey is no more a web-based news/mail reader than Firefox is a web-based web browser! A web-based application is one where the data (the news, the mail) is somewhere else, and all the application gives you is a web browser-based way to view and interact with that data. SeaMonkey is an application that runs locally, on your computer, and (assuming it's like Thunderbird, the mail/news app that I use), it downloads the data, so you are working with it locally, and can work with it even when you aren't on-line.
From: Peter T. Daniels on 1 Jan 2010 11:10
On Jan 1, 9:33 am, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv(a)aol> wrote: > Peter T. Daniels wrote: > > On Dec 31, 9:50 am, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv(a)aol> wrote: > > >> I see I've been wasting my time. > > > If you're referring to your pontifications on matters you know nothing > > about, namely linguistics, then you may be right. > > I was trying to learn some stuff. It's too bad you are not > interested in teaching it. With well over 500 postings in this thread, I can't remember what it was that you were trying to learn, but you came here armed with an enormous arsenal of preconceptions that need to be cleaned out. So can you ask your first question? |