On Tuesday 13 October 2009 01:28:13 Neal Hogan wrote: > >> If I tell you "ball" is the objective case and "the boy" is > >> the subjective case, can you see where I'm going? It's still > >> the boy that kicked the ball but the position denotes > >> emphasis, not case. > > > > Ah, yes I see. So you can then use position to imply whether > > the statement is attempting to answer the question "what was > > kicked?" or "who kicked the ball?" > > I haven't been following, but looked because I was curious what was > going on in this thread that was OT to begin with . . . . ~3 days ago. > > Is this a comedy sketch?
Nope, just a bunch of bored geeks showing off with clever facts and silly (but true) observations. We do this about once a month. Tomorrow morning most of us will go back to trying to figure out how to get x.org to work everywhere, either with or without hal. As for me it's 2:24 local time, I really tried but made no progress architecting my central syslog work project tonight, so I'm going to bed. :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
