[WAYYY OT] Begs the question

[Carroll Grigsby]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:47:16 +0000
mike cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm well aware of that. Spanish is a case in point:
> >
> > 1) Vamos a comer. -- Let's eat.
> > 2) ¿Vamos a comer? -- Are we going to eat?
> >
> > In fact I know from observation that some question forms can be
> > hard for non-native speakers to grasp when using English, such as
> > the correct use of the auxiliary verb 'do'. A common mistake for
> > example is "Didn't he went?" instead of "Didn't he go?"
> 
> I am confused here - I clearly mistakenly thought this was a Fedora
> users list!

Mike:

Meanwhile, over on the ISGN [1] list, there is a big
thread about the relative advantages of su - and sudo.

[1] International Society of Grammar Nazis

-- cmg