On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 14:03 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 21:54 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > 1) Does this look like an error? > > > 2) How do I do this? > > > > When viewed as single sentences what you've said makes sense. > > > > However, when viewed as part of a larger piece of work the sentence > > "This looks like an error?" may indeed be just fine and dandy. It > > would be a shorten form of "This looks like an error to you?" where > > the > > "to you" is implied by the broader context of the larger work. > > My examples were short in order to make a point, but of course one of > the delights of English is the huge variety of expression. There's > almost nothing that can't be placed in a context where it can be > construed to mean something (rather like Perl :-) > > poc > Is this subject of the space and time it has taken up on the list? I would say it is not . After all as the subject indicates it is: [WAYYY OT] -- ======================================================================= A CONS is an object which cares. -- Bernie Greenberg. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
