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From: Andrew Usher on 23 Feb 2010 19:47 Peter T. Daniels wrote: > > >> The word 'Christendom', which you used, would normally be taken to > > >> include the Eastern Orthodox. One wonders why you wouldn't. > > > > > They are among the many churches for which the Roman Catholic Church > > > (which may have been what you meant by "the Catholic Church"?) does > > > not speak. > > > > It's just that that's what he was saying. That the CC "hasn't spoken for all > > of Christendom" for "longer than half a millennium". > > That was I that said that. Count chevrons very carefully when deleting > attributions. His point, though, is still correct. > > You pretend not to know what "The Catholic Church" refers to, yet your > > answer is built on equating it with a certain church currently led by one > > Benedict XVI.- > > It is Usher who said "'The Church' refers to exactly one > organisation" (complete with the quaint British spelling). You have provided no evidence to refute that people in general context understand the phrase to particularly refer to that church headed by the Pope. Andrew Usher
From: Andrew Usher on 23 Feb 2010 19:57 Jerry Friedman wrote: > I just dropped by rasfw, where people had discussed a different > proposal: > > http://individual.utoronto.ca/kalendis/symmetry.htm I would object to this because of the huge variation in month lengths. This is not only against the original purpose of months, but against the modern use of them as financial periods. Also, he has weeks starting on Monday, which I of course find unacceptable. Having a similar proposal with Sunday would make every month have Friday the 13th, which would hopefully get rid of that ridiculous superstitious concept. Andrew Usher
From: Andrew Usher on 23 Feb 2010 19:59 John Atkinson wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_genitive > > Constructions similar to the 'his' genitive do exist in many of the > world's languages, including Norwegian and, I understand, some German > varieties. In Afrikaans, it's the standard possessive construction. That's why I called it a common Germanic feature. Andrew Usher
From: jimp on 23 Feb 2010 19:53 In sci.physics Andrew Usher <k_over_hbarc(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > j...(a)specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: > >> >> I suspect that you could find people celebrating Pesach, Purim, Rosh >> >> Hashanah, and Yom Kippur in as many countries as any four Christian >> >> holidays. >> > >> > Well, yes, but not _more people_. >> > >> > Andrew Usher >> >> With roughly 1.3 billion Chinese alone, New Years is celebrated by a LOT >> more people. > > New Year is not among the holidays Kirshenbaum mentioned. I exclude it > from my consideration as by its nature it can't be fixed to a > particular day of the week. > > Andrew Usher Neither can most holidays. The original issues were international and total recognition. New Years is the only holiday that is recognized by virtually every culture and nation and is obsevered by more people than any other. -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply.
From: Andrew Usher on 23 Feb 2010 20:07
António Marques wrote: > >> Well, I'm astounded. Indexing from 0 is so obviously the Right Way > >> that I can't imagine why anyone would do it the other way. > >> > > You always count items starting with 0? > > It's a matter of stupid perspective. Since the array's position is the > 'first', the 'first' element's position is the array's ('first') plus 0. > First plus 0 = first! Indeed, indexing is not the same thing as counting. If I were creating a non-computer _indexing_ system, I would start from 0 as well. Andrew Usher |