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Re: OT: Military Ranks/Computers : WAS Re: newbie question on cobol syntax
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| Pete Dashwood 2007-05-17, 6:55 pm |
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"Alistair" <alistair@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1179429943.754723.29130@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
> On 14 May, 23:59, "Pete Dashwood" <dashw...@removethis.enternet.co.nz>
> wrote:
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> Shouldn't that be platypii?
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What colour are your knickers...?
Pete.
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| In article <5b6qr5F2r3n89U1@mid.individual.net>,
Pete Dashwood <dashwood@removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote:
[snip]
>I really hate explaining things, but, as I'm not Mary Poppins, I guess I'll
>have to...
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>1. A comment was made that some of the posts in this forum might be
>considered as coming from women (in the sense of "old women").
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>2. You responded that you sometimes like to wear women's underwear.
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>3. You then made a post that is trivial and pedantic (modern idiom does not
>require latin plurals in everyday speech; you can say indexes or indices,
>just as you can say platytpuses, octopuses, or echidnas... The Latin forms
>are more often used in a formal, technical, or scientific context;
>"antennas" (common speech referring to TV aerials), "antennae" (a technical
>paper on entomology)).
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> In fact, publicly correcting to the Latin form might be considered as
>supercilious, if it were serious. (I'm hoping it wasn't and took it as a
>joke...)
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>4. Given the correction was a joke, I then linked to the previous reference,
>as a lighthearted response. The implication of my extremely rhetorical
>question (I certainly don't care about your underwear) was purely: "you are
>being an old woman; get a life".
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>Hope that covers it... :-)
It appears to cover a few things, Mr Dashwood... perhaps including 'a joke
explained is a joke lost'.
(... so it's getting dark, see, and the traveling percussion-instrument
salesman - a real drummer's drummer! - stops by a farmhouse. The farmer
has two daughters, one named Lefty Echidna, on account of an accident she
had resulting in the loss of two toes on her left foot, and the other
named Righty Sloth, on account of an accident she had resulting...)
DD
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