Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?
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- Subject: Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?
- From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
- Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 17:04:55 -0600
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On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 14:58 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> writes:
>
> > Le samedi 28 janvier 2006 à 21:16 -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit :
> >> God. Is this supposed to be rational technical discussion, or
> >> an exercise in jejune mud slinging.
> >
> > Deliberate use of words a non-native English speaker cannot understand
> > won't help your argumentation.
>
> How is "jejune" unfair? How can I predict which words you will or
> won't know? Maybe Debian should ship a dictionary. Oh wait, it does.
Manoj probably thought (as I did, until I ran dict) that jejune
is a French word never used in English.
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