Patch to fix compile

Hello, `make all' is currently broken on git master. This patch fixes the problem. Thanks, Patrick >From b298a2adda7282020b293834b318cd2f5fb4bee6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick McCarty Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 16:24:32 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Fix compile * @example environment needs escape

Re: Building GUB3

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Samstag, 7. Februar 2009 23:16:35 Patrick McCarty wrote: > Hello, > > I've been trying to build GUB3 on my x86 box, but Guile fails in the > configure stage. > > Attached is the relevant part of config.log. That's the same problem I encountered a w

Building GUB3

Hello, I've been trying to build GUB3 on my x86 box, but Guile fails in the configure stage. Attached is the relevant part of config.log. Thanks, Patrick configure:22123: checking size of char configure:22425: gcc -o conftest -I/home/pnorcks/git/gub/target/tools/root/usr/include -L/home/pnorcks

Re: [frogs] Discourse on the Consumption of Dog Food

In message , Hans Aberg writes On 6 Feb 2009, at 23:00, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: I was surprised recently to discover how FEW rules it takes to pronounce English words. Given that the average person has a 20,000 word vocabulary, it apparently only takes about 30 or 40 rules for a computer

Re: [frogs] Discourse on the Consumption of Dog Food

In message <20090207154751.ga2...@nagi>, Graham Percival writes Sure, and what about languages with a variety of accents, like English? Which one do you base the spelling on? The Queen's, of course. ;) You mean English, as spoken by a German, of Saxon descent imported to kick the Anglish o

Re: [frogs] Discourse on the Consumption of Dog Food

In message <498d801d.3020...@gmail.com>, Jonathan Kulp writes Graham Percival wrote: IMNSHO, one of the first rules of an (alphabetized) written language should be that every single word should be pronouncable by a complete novice after 10 hours of study. Or maybe 5 or 20... but you get the i

Re: [frogs] Discourse on the Consumption of Dog Food

In message <20090207083104.ga2...@nagi>, Graham Percival writes On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 10:00:04PM +, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message <20090204160623.ga2...@nagi>, Graham Percival writes being surrounded by nothing but ESL people now (and trying to teach them better English), I have

Re: Good luck, Valentin

2009/2/5 Francisco Vila : > In another concession to windows users like my students, I'd like to > have a windows built-in version of main.ly (say winmain.ly) with the > foo/ path style in the includes, and which they could process directly > on their systems. Johannes: thank you very much, FOSS

Re: [frogs] Discourse on the Consumption of Dog Food

Graham Percival wrote Saturday, February 07, 2009 3:47 PM But in a well-designed language, the accents would at least be consistent -- i.e. if you pronounced "about" as "aboot" (which, despite the best efforts of the cartoon South Park", I've never heard any Canadians say), you should also pron

Re: [frogs] Discourse on the Consumption of Dog Food

On 6 Feb 2009, at 23:00, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: I was surprised recently to discover how FEW rules it takes to pronounce English words. Given that the average person has a 20,000 word vocabulary, it apparently only takes about 30 or 40 rules for a computer speech program to *correctly*

Re: [frogs] Discourse on the Consumption of Dog Food

On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 11:04:30PM +0800, Graham Breed wrote: > Graham Percival wrote: > >> I'm not as sympathetic when they forget to add a "the" or "an" in >> front of a noun. English is consistent on that point. > > It is not. Countable and uncountable nouns are already a good hour's > lesson

Re: [frogs] Discourse on the Consumption of Dog Food

Graham Percival wrote: I mean, in Japanese there's no pluralization of nouns. Given the writing that I see from the graduate students here, I gather that Chinese doesn't pluralize nouns either. Now how can I explain to them how to do something as simple as saying "one foo" and "two foos" ? Th

Re: [frogs] Discourse on the Consumption of Dog Food

Graham Percival wrote: IMNSHO, one of the first rules of an (alphabetized) written language should be that every single word should be pronouncable by a complete novice after 10 hours of study. Or maybe 5 or 20... but you get the idea. Cheers, - Graham 100% right. I have no idea how anyone

Re: [frogs] Discourse on the Consumption of Dog Food

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 10:00:04PM +, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: > In message <20090204160623.ga2...@nagi>, Graham Percival > writes >> being surrounded by nothing but ESL people now (and >> trying to teach them better English), I have newfound appreciation >> for what a completely stupid la