Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3729 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 22:30, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
> Yikes, where do they find these writers?

It's a comment to an article, sent in by a regular reader. The fact that
he posted under an alias "NZheretic" should have been a clue, don't you
think?

> 
> "In May 1999, the Trillian Project is foundered ..." Did the writer mean that 
> the project was wrecked on the rocks like a 'foundered' ocean liner?
> 
> "... for all intensive purposes..." ?? What about non-intensive purposes?

Search google. You have very well paid writers, writing for very well
established news papers writing "its" when they mean "it's", "intensive"
instead of "intents and", "their" instead of "they're" and many, many
more.

"Security" isn't a dirty word, Blackadder, but it seems more and more as
though "grammar" is.

> 
> If the public advocates for Free and Open Source software cannot grammatically 
> express themselves so as to be understood by the people they want to "Win 
> over to our cause" then we ALL end up looking like un-educated boobs!

An educated boob? What a concept. Did it go to the Texas Institute of
Technology? :)

> 
> Venting from frustration .............. PeterB

"Exposing to cool or cold air so as to freshen" from frustration?

If you don't allow a simile such as "founder", you shouldn't use one
yourself