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Re: 'box' as noun, was: wireless can DHCP but not DNS?



On 2014-05-23, Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote:
>
> While you are correct, the sentence structure leads one to expect 'box'
> as a verb and 'ethernets' as a noun.  Speaking as another native
> speaker, it took me two passes to read what was intended there.
>

Speaking as a disgruntled and often restless native, linguistic
confusion is my norm.


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