On 11/03/18 12:26, Istvan Gabor wrote:
On Fri, 9 Mar 2018 08:37:20 +0800, George from the tribe wrote:
On 03/09/2018 06:41 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On Thursday, 2018-03-08 at 23:12 +0100, Knurpht - Gertjan Lettink wrote:
Op donderdag 8 maart 2018 22:45:11 CET schreef Dave Howorth:
On Thu, 08 Mar 2018 10:12:41 -0800
John Andersen <jsamyth@gmail.com> wrote:
Verbing nouns is a built-in feature of English
No, generally it's a feature of American, not English.
Just wondering, is this really what this ML is for?
Telling people to search in google for an answer instead of asking here, in terms that not everybody understands is not nice, IMHO. Nor mocking for not understanding the answer ("google it").
I agree. In my case, I had in fact done a google search, as I always do before posting anything to the list, and come up empty. I knew it was probably a simple solution; hence, in my original post, I noted that it was a feature that "should be easily disabled."
And the answer (that I should google for a solution) somehow didn't register as a command when I read it. Perhaps because I am not looking for someone to order me to do something I already tried. Or maybe I was tired. You can't read voice intonation into typed text, something else that is indicative of meaning in normal conversational English. That effect could have happened on both John's answer, and my response, which was a genuine question, not an attempt to be daft.
I am very thankful for all the smart people on this list who have helped me immensely over the last few years, John included. Maybe I could have waited and thought about it a little more before asking the initial question. From time to time each one of us is inevitably going to post something that if we had thought of a little harder was probably unnecessary. None of us are perfect or all-wise. I expect that most, if not all of us, are doing our best.
I take no offense, and hope that I have caused none. But again, thank you to everyone who works very hard on this list to help people like me, who haven't had time to study and become a real expert.
Hello:
George, you don't have to explain it. There wasn't any problem with your question. However, the answer, I quote
"It's a feature not a bug. Google deactivating automatic changes in libreoffice."
is 1) inappropriate and 2) rude.
I also wondered what this sentence exactly meant. I could not understand what Google company had to do with LO development/features.
ad 1) The answer should have been "do a google search with the phrase 'deactivating automatic changes' " to make it clear.
ad 2) The polite answer would have been describing how to deactivate automatic changes or at least include a link to such a description.
Seems to me the problem that's arisen here is down to an obsession with brevity. Though brevity has it's own reward, as they say, it's possible to take it so far as to obscure meaning. (And I'd hold too that that comment is not off-topic, since what's the point of a mailing list like this one other than to impart unambiguous meaning?) -- Robin K Wellington "Harbour City" New Zealand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org