On Friday 20 April 2012 13:08:56 Juergen Weigert wrote:
On Apr 20, 12 11:49:57 +0200, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
On Friday 13 April 2012 17:18:30 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
In the meeting we had we decided: - to delay the final decision with max one week - but work with the assumption we're going university - the theme would be "*bootstrapping awesome*",
I got some puzzled looks when I tried to discuss this theme in the documentation team. Awesome is an adjective and should be followed by a noun.
Of course, it's a language joke, not proper English. But both native speakers (who get the joke) and non-natives (who probably don't) will understand what it means. I think... :D
Variants that would make more sense to me: *bootstrapping awe* *awesome bootstrapping* *bootstrapping, awesome!* *bootstrapping - awesome!*
because
- we always bootstrap awesome things in openSUSE - we bootstrap the first gentoo summit - we bootstrap the first community-led LinuxExpo - SUSE Labs is all about weird words like 'bootstrapping', 'chrooting'
Intended weirdness is great, but somehow it did not work here. Any native speakers to comment on this?
Yes, I find it funny but I'm (although quite a english language freak) not a native speaker. Natives, talk to us :D
thanks, JW-