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Re: Keeping stable stable.



On 06/02/11 at 02:08pm, Tom Furie wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 11:15:37AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> > Stan Hoeppner a écrit :
> > > 
> > > You're much better off simply changing sources.list right
> > > before your next distribution upgrade.  This is what Debian recommends,
> > > oddly enough
> > 
> > Oddly ?
> 
> It's another of the strange idioms of the English language. That usage
> of "oddly enough" actually means something more like "and it should be
> blatantly obvious why that is the case". Without the "enough" tagged on
> it would really mean "oddly".

Not to get into language lessons, but although it is frequently (mis-)used this way, oddly enough really does mean the same thing as oddly. It is just very rarely used without sarcasm or irony. 


-- 
Liam

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