On March 17, 2003 01:15 pm, Jack Byers wrote:
> Hal Burgiss responded to another thread:
> >Mutt + procmail is light years ahead of this stuff. Especially, when
> >you consider vim can be used as the editor.
>
> I am reasonably sure most members of this list,
> and almost surely Hal himself,
> really know that "light year" is a technical term:
>
> specifically it is a measure of _distance_ ;
> and said another way, it most certainly is not a measure of _time_
> which is the sense it was used in the above quote.
i hate to drag on such an OT thread, but how is his statement improperly used?
yes "light years" is a term used for distance, but so is "miles" therefore
the following statements are fundamentally the same:
Mutt + procmail is light years ahead of this stuff.
Mutt + procmail is miles ahead of this stuff.
while one could substitiute "years" in the above, this does not make "light
years" an invalid use of language.
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