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From: Adam Funk on 22 Feb 2010 15:07 On 2010-02-22, R H Draney wrote: > In APL, indexing starts at one unless you've explicitly set it to zero by > setting the system variable quad-IO....r "quad-IO" ... are you winding me up? -- Do you know what they do to book thieves up at Santa Rita? http://www.shigabooks.com/indeces/bookhunter.html
From: Adam Funk on 22 Feb 2010 15:18 On 2010-02-22, Adam Funk wrote: > On 2010-02-22, R H Draney wrote: > >> In APL, indexing starts at one unless you've explicitly set it to zero by >> setting the system variable quad-IO....r > > "quad-IO" ... are you winding me up? Just remembered that that means "#IO", therefore arguably no sillier than "$[". Never mind. -- Usenet is a cesspool, a dung heap. [Patrick A. Townson]
From: Adam Funk on 22 Feb 2010 15:27 On 2010-02-22, Androcles wrote: > "Michael Stemper's blunder" is a contraction of "Michael Stemper, his > blunder". You see the latter construction in some C.17 English, but it was based on a folk etymology or hypercorrection (or a combination of the two) of "Michael Stemper's blunder". -- The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. [Robert R. Coveyou]
From: Mahipal7638 on 22 Feb 2010 15:54 On Feb 22, 2:20 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...(a)verizon.net> wrote: > On Feb 22, 2:12 pm, "Androcles" <Headmas...(a)Hogwarts.physics_u> wrote: > > > "Michael Stemper" <mstem...(a)walkabout.empros.com> wrote in message > > >news:hlufet$ida$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > > > > In article <%GIfn.45264$lB6.23...(a)newsfe16.ams2>, "Androcles" > > > <Headmas...(a)Hogwarts.physics_u> writes: > > >>"R H Draney" <dadoc...(a)spamcop.net> wrote in message > > >>news:hlni3r01mb3(a)drn.newsguy.com... > > >>> Robert Bannister filted: > > >>>>Androcles wrote: > > > >>>>> The USA doesn't have a football schedule. The rest of the world plays > > >>>>> football, the USA calls that soccer and then plays it's own version of > > >>>>> parochial handball. > > > >>> One expects such a reaction from someone who inserts an apostrophe into > > >>> possessive "its".... > > > >>Oops... I forgot that is one possessive word that doesn't have an > > >>apostophe. > > > > mine, yours, his, > > > "Michael Stemper's blunder" is a contraction of "Michael Stemper, his > > blunder". > > No, it is not. > > Where did you learn your historical linguistics? Fine, there are cross-posted groups here. Given that or no, and forgetting History, for that is the one thing that History's good for, what makes you pretend Androcles is an expert, or even, merely learned, in hystericle (my pronunciation of your historical) linguistics?! The gravity of your presumptuous expectation -- handwritten or otherwise, for the blind or no -- defies ... err ... physics -- mathematical or otherwise. When one writes on Usenet, or some WWW, one has to allow for that "deaf, dumb, and blind kid" playing Who's Pinball. It's only considerate, in any Language. > > http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contraction > > : a shortening of a word, syllable, or word group by omission of a sound or > > letter;- Enjo(y)... -- Mahipal
From: R H Draney on 22 Feb 2010 16:27
Adam Funk filted: > >On 2010-02-22, Adam Funk wrote: > >> On 2010-02-22, R H Draney wrote: >> >>> In APL, indexing starts at one unless you've explicitly set it to zero by >>> setting the system variable quad-IO....r >> >> "quad-IO" ... are you winding me up? > >Just remembered that that means "#IO", therefore arguably no sillier >than "$[". Never mind. Actually, it means some funky character that I can't type here...it's drawn as a rectangle and pronounced "quad" by the APLinese.... (Comments are denoted by the "lamp" character, made by overstriking "jot" and "up-shoe")....r -- "Oy! A cat made of lead cannot fly." - Mark Brader declaims a basic scientific principle |