Re: Battlefield Weapon Popularity Trend

2006-10-01 Thread Scott David Daniels
Gabriel Genellina wrote: > At Wednesday 27/9/2006 07:30, Mirco Wahab wrote: > >> >> When the Samurai of medieval Japan were confronted >> >> with new 'battlefield language', e.g. early Shotguns, >> >> they resisted because one could push any peasant >> > >> > shouldn't this be "they [the Samurai]

Re: Battlefield Weapon Popularity Trend

2006-09-28 Thread Chris Mattern
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mirco Wahab wrote: >Thus spoke Chris Mattern (on 2006-09-27 19:09): >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mirco Wahab wrote: >>> >>>When the Samurai of medieval Japan were confronted >>>with new 'battlefield language', e.g. early Shotguns, >> >> "early Shotguns" :D. Y

Re: Battlefield Weapon Popularity Trend

2006-09-27 Thread Gabriel Genellina
At Wednesday 27/9/2006 07:30, Mirco Wahab wrote: >> When the Samurai of medieval Japan were confronted >> with new 'battlefield language', e.g. early Shotguns, >> they resisted because one could push any peasant > > shouldn't this be "they [the Samurai] did not resist"? The "resisted" believing

Re: Battlefield Weapon Popularity Trend

2006-09-27 Thread Mirco Wahab
Thus spoke Chris Mattern (on 2006-09-27 19:09): > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mirco Wahab wrote: >> >>When the Samurai of medieval Japan were confronted >>with new 'battlefield language', e.g. early Shotguns, > > "early Shotguns" :D. Your mastery of the history of > firearms overwhelms me. Y

Re: Battlefield Weapon Popularity Trend (was: Computer Language Popularity Trend)

2006-09-27 Thread Chris Mattern
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mirco Wahab wrote: > >When the Samurai of medieval Japan were confronted >with new 'battlefield language', e.g. early Shotguns, "early Shotguns" :D. Your mastery of the history of firearms overwhelms me. -- Christopher Mattern "Which one you figure

Re: Battlefield Weapon Popularity Trend

2006-09-27 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
On 9/27/06, Mirco Wahab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thus spoke Ramon Diaz-Uriarte (on 2006-09-27 11:01): > > >> When the Samurai of medieval Japan were confronted > >> with new 'battlefield language', e.g. early Shotguns, > >> they resisted because one could push any peasant > > > > shouldn't this

Re: Battlefield Weapon Popularity Trend

2006-09-27 Thread Mirco Wahab
Thus spoke Ramon Diaz-Uriarte (on 2006-09-27 11:01): >> When the Samurai of medieval Japan were confronted >> with new 'battlefield language', e.g. early Shotguns, >> they resisted because one could push any peasant > > shouldn't this be "they [the Samurai] did not resist"? The "resisted" believ

Re: Battlefield Weapon Popularity Trend (was: Computer Language Popularity Trend)

2006-09-27 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
On 9/27/06, Mirco Wahab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thus spoke Xah Lee (on 2006-09-27 05:03): > > > This page gives a visual report of computer languages's > > popularity, as indicated by their traffic level in newsgroups. > > ... > > http://xahlee.org/lang_traf/index.html > > When the Samurai of

Battlefield Weapon Popularity Trend (was: Computer Language Popularity Trend)

2006-09-27 Thread Mirco Wahab
Thus spoke Xah Lee (on 2006-09-27 05:03): > This page gives a visual report of computer languages's > popularity, as indicated by their traffic level in newsgroups. > ... > http://xahlee.org/lang_traf/index.html When the Samurai of medieval Japan were confronted with new 'battlefield language',