[WAYYY OT] Begs the question
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Mar 22 21:15:58 UTC 2011
On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 17:03 -0400, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> 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
I invoke Godwin's Law.
poc
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