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Re: A language by any other name



On Wed, 2001-09-26 at 20:50, Ben Burton wrote:
> 
> >   British English is beautiful where it appears in poems, plays, and
> >   novels by Shakespeare and Wilde and other brilliant English authors.
> >   It certainly does NOT belong in the ls man page.
> 
> Why such emphasis?  The idea is to spell words like "colour" instead of
> "color", not to write the ls man page in iambic pentameter.
> 
> I am reminded of an email I saw some years ago with error messages in
> Haiku.
> 

I think I'd RTFM a lot more if the man pages *were* in Iambic
Pentameter...  ~,^

> Ben. :)
> 
> 

Sean Etc.



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