Tom Roche <tom_ro...@pobox.com> writes: > Lisi Reisz Fri, 23 May 2014 17:10:49 +0100 >> "box" is a verb, so I found it confusing. > > You are indeed confused. As a native speaker of English, I can assure > you, 'box' is both noun and verb. > Also, having been "in computing" in the US for decades, I can assure > you, 'box' as a noun is widely used to refer to informatic devices > generically.
While you are correct, the sentence structure leads one to expect 'box' as a verb and 'ethernets' as a noun. Speaking as another native speaker, it took me two passes to read what was intended there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1b38g02pmd....@snowball.wb.pfeifferfamily.net
