Re: Metrical Stress, Feet, Syllables, Genders, Email Servers etc.

jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM wrote:

>For that matter, naming a computer "up" was a bad idea in the first place:
>it leads to silly-sounding sentences like "Is up down?" and "Boot up up."
>See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1178.txt for details on this and other
>bad ideas for computer names; http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2100.txt for
>another view of the subject.
>
>
Is "boot up" still current? I haven't heard that in like fifteen years.

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