I demand that Carsten Koch may or may not have written... > Darren Salt, the guardian of the english lanaguage, wrote: >> I demand that Carsten Koch may or may not have written... [snip] >>> Maybe green and yellow could be used altered, so they continue to go >>> forward/backward one minute out of play mode, but would go >>> forward/backward one frame out of pause mode? >> Why not when _in_, respectively, play mode and pause mode? > You may be in play/pause mode before and after skipping forward/backward, > but while you skip you are in skip mode. Or, rather, VDR may be in the relevant mode. ;-) > Does that make any sense to a native english speaker? Well... yes - but, wrt what's being discussed, it's a curious way of putting it. I prefer to consider playing, paused etc. as states within playback mode. (Strangely, we have "resume playback" from the paused state. I blame the language.) > I would certainly put it that way in german. :-) That's "English" and "German". We do have /some/ capitalised nouns... :-) -- | Darren Salt | d youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | nr. Ashington, | Debian, | s zap,tartarus,org | Northumberland | RISC OS | @ | Toon Army | <URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.packages.html> You will live a long, healthy, happy life and make bags of money.
