OT: Re: At peace with Debian (was: This is the last war...)

[Erik Mathisen <erik@mathisen.us>]

Ok,

I know from time to time OT threads will happen, but surely this is
not the time nor the place for this discussion.  So can we please drop
it, or atleast those interested can continue privately.

Thanks,

Erik

-- 
Erik Mathisen <erik@mathisen.us>
http://erik.mathisen.us
 
Who spread garbage all over Flanders's yard before I got a chance to?

		-- Homer Simpson
		   Two Dozen and One Greyhounds
 
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 06:30:36PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 17:33, Craig Dickson wrote:
> > Grant Edwards wrote:
> > 
> > > > See my other posts for the case supporting singular "they".  If
> > > > Shakespeare on George Bernard Shaw can do it, so can anyone else ;)
> > > 
> > > I used to try that argument in English class.
> > > 
> > > It didn't work.
> > 
> > So your English teacher was illiterate. Big deal. I had an illiterate
> > English teacher back in 8th grade. She completely missed a blatant
> > allusion to Shakespeare, and criticised me for "vagueness" because I
> > used the construct "such stuff as ... are made of".
> 
> If you habitually use Shakespearean English to write ordinary prose, you
> will be regarded as ... odd.
> 
> Shakespeare also changed spellings with gay abandon, including his own
> name.  If you do that now, you will rightly be regarded as illiterate.
> 


-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org