On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 10:35:51 am walt wrote: > On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:03:33 +0000, Greg Lee wrote: > > On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:58:21 +0000, walt wrote: > >> ... Because pan is stuck in a loop somewhere, ... > > > > In my opinion, you guys are spinning your wheels. Because pan is > > not stuck (if I'm talking about the same bug as you are); it's just > > taking a long time. > > My old 7th grade English teacher would now rap you on your knuckles > with a ruler, shouting "Antecedent! Antecedent!"
Antecedent? As in, "A preceding occurrence or cause or event", and similar definitions? I don't understand. Did your teacher suffer from Tourette's Syndrome, causing her (him?) to yell out irrelevant words at awkward moments? > The whole puzzle > here is exactly what is "it" that's taking a long time? I can be as pedantic as the next person, assuming the next person is a pedant, but it's not hard to determine what is "it" in the above sentence: it's the subject of the sentence, Pan. I'm reminded of one of the first programming languages I learnt (or learned if you prefer). Apple's HyperTalk allowed you to write things like this: get the number of words of "Coke Is It" put it into x which would assign the value 3 to x. [...] > (Oh crap, now my old teacher > would whack my knuckles for ending a sentence with a preposition.) I hope you would say, "Listen up you old biddy, if ending sentences with prepositions was good enough for Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton, to say nothing of Winston Churchill and the Queen herself, it's good enough for me." http://www.dailywritingtips.com/go-ahead-put-that-preposition-at-the-end/ http://grammartips.homestead.com/prepositions2.html http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/ling009.html -- Steven _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
