Re: OT: Military Ranks/Computers : WAS Re: newbie question on cobol syntax

On 19 May, 00:23, "Pete Dashwood" <dashw...@removethis.enternet.co.nz>
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> I really hate explaining things, but, as I'm not Mary Poppins, I guess I'l
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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 no
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> 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 technica
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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
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> 4. Given the correction was a joke, I then linked to the previous referenc
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> as a lighthearted response. The implication of my extremely rhetorical
> question (I certainly don't care about your underwear) was purely: "you ar
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> being an old woman; get a life".
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It does. Thanks. I'm sorry but I insist on fora, indices, echidnae,
and octopii.

In article <1179677003.051183.192070@w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
Alistair  <alistair@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>On 19 May, 00:23, "Pete Dashwood" <dashw...@removethis.enternet.co.nz>
>wrote:

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>It does. Thanks. I'm sorry but I insist on fora, indices, echidnae,
>and octopii.

'All at the same meal?'

'All on the same plate!' - B. Hill

DD

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