On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 15:12 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 14:58 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > >> Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > Le samedi 28 janvier 2006 à 21:16 -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : > >> >> God. Is this supposed to be rational technical discussion, or > >> >> an exercise in jejune mud slinging. > >> > > >> > Deliberate use of words a non-native English speaker cannot understand > >> > won't help your argumentation. > >> > >> How is "jejune" unfair? How can I predict which words you will or > >> won't know? Maybe Debian should ship a dictionary. Oh wait, it does. > > > > Manoj probably thought (as I did, until I ran dict) that jejune > > is a French word never used in English. > > I find it unlikely to think that Manoj was trying to use a French > word. I think he is simply an accomplished writer, using a carefully > chosen ordinary English word, and doesn't know which English words > French people normally learn.
Then I made a mistake in who wrote "Deliberate use of words..." -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA "In politics you can't be true to all of your friends all of the time." Perry S. Heath (RNC secretary, 1900-04)
