Re: A language by any other name
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 09:07:27PM -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> 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... ~,^
I wouldn't -- I'd get kinda confused :-)
Duncan
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