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Re: About /dev/sr impatience with automatic tray loading



On 11/12/18 17:31, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 06:22:56PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>> Dan Ritter wrote:
>>> The English use it more than Americans do.
>>
>> In school it was a big deal to distinguish "will" and "shall".
>> (I was very eager to forget the exact rules when nobody cared any more.)
> 
> Americans (at least in my part of the country) never use "shall" at
> all.  To us, it simply sounds archaic.  We'd expect it in the King James
> Bible, or in certain kinds of fantasy literature.
> 

Not the bible, but pretty close:
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt


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