On 07/04/12 05:54, Lisi wrote: > On Friday 06 April 2012 20:34:28 Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 11:38:29AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> On 04/04/12 07:46, Lisi wrote: >>>> On Tuesday 03 April 2012 22:35:00 Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>>>> Note that apt-get *installs* recommended packages by default since >>>>> Lenny and starting with Squeeze is the preferred program to >>>>> perform system installation and major system upgrades. >>>> >>>> Note that apt-get *has installed* recommended packages etc. surely? >>> >>> "since" makes that redundant. >>> One of the keys to "plain English" is brevity. ;-) >> >> http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=4904#comment-303296 >> >> -- >> "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet." >> -- Napoleon Bonaparte > > That is about spelling, not grammar. Since requires the perfect tense. It is > quite simply wrong in English to say "since.... installs". Leave out the > words "since Lenny", and "installs" becomes correct, but loses some of the > intended meaning. > > Lisi > > That comment is tediously laboured attempt at humour in a monetising "story" ripped off from another April Fools joke. Any relevance to anything is entirely coincidental.
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