On 11/05/2017 02:09, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 10 May 2017 23:33:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> I you read -dev, you could have replied to the original with a correct >> fix :-) > > No good. I can't read C. I gave up in the '80s and reverted to assembler. > >> The author isn't English mother-tongue btw [1] > > Maybe not, but he's only following what the typical American is doing. > >>> (By way of explanation, 35 years ago I was made the documentation >>> manager of a 200-man-year software project. Ever since then I've been >>> unable to read anything at all without the eye of an editor - it's >>> ruined my enjoyment of everything I read. There's no hope any longer.) >> >> Oh noes. So you can't enjoy Pratchett? poor, poor you <shudder> :-) > > Sadness. > >> [1] Living in a country with 11 (yes, eleven!) official languages, all >> considered legally valid for purposes of government with equal status, I >> had to let go of English bias and accept that languages get mangled. All >> the time. > > I sympathise. I couldn't live in a place like that. > >> Except for this new meaning for "revert". can't bring myself to accept >> that one, too much like gouging out eyeballs with a blunt spoon. > > Eh? What meaning is that? I seem to have missed it. >
In Africa, "revert" has become synonymous with "reply". Causes no end of confusion when the firewall admin replies to a ticket saying he'll do it and revert. -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
