Re: 'box' as noun, was: wireless can DHCP but not DNS?
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 09:52:43AM +0000, Curt wrote:
> 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.
Especially when you have phrases like: "Peter Snell won the walking race
three times running." :)
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