On 12/05/2017 09:37, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On May 11, 2017 11:20:49 AM GMT+02:00, Alan McKinnon > <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 11/05/2017 02:09, Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> On Wednesday 10 May 2017 23:33:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> >>>> I you read -dev, you could have replied to the original with a >> correct >>>> fix :-) >>> >>> No good. I can't read C. I gave up in the '80s and reverted to >> assembler. >>> >>>> The author isn't English mother-tongue btw [1] >>> >>> Maybe not, but he's only following what the typical American is >> doing. >>> >>>>> (By way of explanation, 35 years ago I was made the documentation >>>>> manager of a 200-man-year software project. Ever since then I've >> been >>>>> unable to read anything at all without the eye of an editor - it's >>>>> ruined my enjoyment of everything I read. There's no hope any >> longer.) >>>> >>>> Oh noes. So you can't enjoy Pratchett? poor, poor you <shudder> :-) >>> >>> Sadness. >>> >>>> [1] Living in a country with 11 (yes, eleven!) official languages, >> all >>>> considered legally valid for purposes of government with equal >> status, I >>>> had to let go of English bias and accept that languages get mangled. >> All >>>> the time. >>> >>> I sympathise. I couldn't live in a place like that. >>> >>>> Except for this new meaning for "revert". can't bring myself to >> accept >>>> that one, too much like gouging out eyeballs with a blunt spoon. >>> >>> Eh? What meaning is that? I seem to have missed it. >>> >> >> In Africa, "revert" has become synonymous with "reply". >> >> Causes no end of confusion when the firewall admin replies to a ticket >> saying he'll do it and revert. > > I'd be complaining about someone like that the whole time. > "Why the *beep* will you revert all changes before we can even test them? You > *beeeeeep*"
True story: I used to do exactly that, then got into horrible trouble with HR, and disciplinary hearing and $DEITY knows what else. Turned out one of the fellows I called a *beeeeeep* was the CEO of our subsidiary in Ghana -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
