From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 11 11:17:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from morpheus.skynet.be (morpheus.skynet.be [195.238.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 085D137BBCD for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:17:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by morpheus.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86952DB51; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:17:36 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:17:01 +0200 To: David Scheidt , Anatoly Vorobey From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: BSDCon East Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, "Thomas M. Sommers" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:56 PM -0500 2000/4/11, David Scheidt wrote: > I agree with most of this. English syntax is decidedly odd. The > construction "Would that Y X", though, is perfectly normal subjunctive > usage. Nevermind that, were I to quiz my cow-orkers, 80% of them wouldn't > know that. You want that I should quiz my cow-orkers over here? ;-) -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message