Re: li! (Was: Re: Naming mp3 players and Yakuza was Re:

Douglas Koller, Latin & French scripsit:

> Egads, am I beyond the pale? At least on the pre-vocal level, I read
> it to myself as if it were the Charles Schultz character with a binky
> [lainVks]. If I actually had to *say* it, I'd probably opt for
> [linUks]. All of this would assume I had the vaguest idea as to what
> I was talking about (well, it's something computery).
It's an operating system, like Windows, except 1) it's free (Windows costs
you about $200 of the price of any computer you buy), and 2) you get a lot
more with it, and 3) you can change it if you don't like it, or pay someone
else to do so, or wait until free improvements are dropped on your head,
and 4) ... but this is OT.

> So are we to understand that if the HTML is whacked, we would read:
>
> "If you understand John Cowan, things are just as they are;"?
More like "If you understand, John Cowan things are just as they are".

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Real FORTRAN programmers can program FORTRAN    John Cowan
in any language.  --Allen Brown                 jcowan@reutershealth.com

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