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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