I'm forwarding this to you because I think you might enjoy the discussion that follows the 1st "OT : light years, arrrrggggh (Jack Byers)"
Best regards, Robert On Monday 17 March 2003 01:51 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Send redhat-list mailing list submissions to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of redhat-list digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. OT : light years, arrrrggggh (Jack Byers) > 2. Re: OT : light years, arrrrggggh (Bill Anderson) > 3. Re: Is RH8 Ever Going to be Updated? (Ritesh Raj Sarraf) > 4. Re: OT : light years, arrrrggggh (Robert P. J. Day) > 5. Re: OT : light years, arrrrggggh (Anthony E. Greene) > 6. Re: OT : light years, arrrrggggh (gabriel) > 7. Re: OT : light years, arrrrggggh (Jack Byers) > 8. Help (Price, Charles) > 9. Re: OT : light years, arrrrggggh (Ric Tibbetts) > 10. Re: Help (Rus Foster) > 11. Re: Sharing home and mail directories (Matthew Saltzman) > > --__--__-- > > Message: 1 > From: "Jack Byers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: OT : light years, arrrrggggh > Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 18:15:07 +0000 > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hal Burgiss responded to another thread: > >Mutt + procmail is light years ahead of this stuff. Especially, when > >you consider vim can be used as the editor. > > I am reasonably sure most members of this list, > and almost surely Hal himself, > really know that "light year" is a technical term: > > specifically it is a measure of _distance_ ; > and said another way, it most certainly is not a measure of _time_ > which is the sense it was used in the above quote. > > Sadly, this kind of thing seems to have entered the popular jargon of > the day. > I even ran across some technical type article in the NYtimes a year or > so ago > that misused the term in just the same way. > > It's no worse than saying "miles ahead of" but that is badjunk use > too. > > call me an old f**t if you must, but I couldn't help responding to > this > > regards > Jack > > _________________________________________________________________ > Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail > > > > > --__--__-- > > Message: 2 > Subject: Re: OT : light years, arrrrggggh > From: Bill Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Organization: > Date: 17 Mar 2003 11:54:17 -0700 > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 11:15, Jack Byers wrote: > > Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Hal Burgiss responded to another thread: > > >Mutt + procmail is light years ahead of this stuff. Especially, > > > when you consider vim can be used as the editor. > > > > I am reasonably sure most members of this list, > > and almost surely Hal himself, > > really know that "light year" is a technical term: > > > > specifically it is a measure of _distance_ ; > > and said another way, it most certainly is not a measure of _time_ > > which is the sense it was used in the above quote. > > > > Sadly, this kind of thing seems to have entered the popular jargon > > of the day. > > I even ran across some technical type article in the NYtimes a year > > or so ago > > that misused the term in just the same way. > > > > It's no worse than saying "miles ahead of" but that is badjunk use > > too. > > > > call me an old f**t if you must, but I couldn't help responding to > > this > > I feel for you. I'm the same way with "new and improved". Sorry if it > is improved, it can not be new. If it is new, there was nothing to > improve. It is either now OR improved, not both. > > Ok, I'll go back to topical-ness now. ;) -- Silverman's Law: If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will. 8:30am up 10 days, 13:08, 7 users, load average: 0.08, 0.24, 0.18 Repeat after me: "The primary purpose of any government entity is to employ the unemployable." -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
