Re: pptp-based vpn
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 09:27:46PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 07:54:19 +1200
> Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 11:32:37PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> > > A nation of supermarket-keepers.
> >
> > Why does there seem to be preocupation with hyphens these days, or am
> > I imagining things?
>
> It was a play on 'shopkeepers', all one word, so a hyphen gave a better
> approximation.
>
> Hyphens are dying out, they used to be much more common, and probably
> when Napoleon was first reported, 'shop-keepers' would have been used.
TBH, I'm noticing them all over the place, and I'm sure they weren't
used as often as they are now. I'm even seeing it being used separating
'no one' *shudder* :)
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"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the
oppressing." --- Malcolm X
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