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Re: OT: sudo questions



On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 16:47 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Doug wrote:
> > Luther Blissett wrote:
> > > help I found in this community. Oh, and the shell... what a shinny
> > > little thing, full of secrets.
> > 
> > I'm confused. I only know "shinny" as a verb: to shinny up a pole, or a
> > tree, etc. To climb, as a kid would. Here he uses it as a noun and an
> > adjective, and I have no idea what he meant.
> 
> I think that was a simple typo.  I think the intention was to say
> "what a shiny little thing, full of secrets".  Which makes sense to me.


I'm a dyslexic and my native language is German. IMO it should be
"shiny".



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