From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 10 11:28:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EDCD37B409 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:28:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.244.107.249.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.244.107.249]) by robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (8.11.5/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f9AISRH09988; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:28:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3BC4937D.5FB32720@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:29:17 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Unhappy Adobe Customer , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSSCA? References: <20011008193423.77229.qmail@web11901.mail.yahoo.com> <3BC34784.4D56D9DF@mindspring.com> <3BC404A6.89276494@mindspring.com> <3BC410E4.ACF8074B@mindspring.com> <20011010113341.G57921@lpt.ens.fr> <3BC48B9F.F385BFC7@mindspring.com> <20011010195728.E83192@lpt.ens.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Your point being? Do you claim that "post" is modified to "pos"? > And in that case, since "post" means "after" or "behind", exactly > why should "i pos facto" mean "before the fact"? "Behind". As I said elsewhere, colloquial legal usage doesn't really match a literal translation. Literal translations are useless for this, which is what I was trying to point out to DES. This is also true of lots of English words and phrases, when it comes to common usage. For example "That's a moot point" is a phrase often used to dismiss further argument, but in fact, it means that the point is subject to discussion. I remember a dicussion I had once, with someone over the compound word "cyberspace". They insisted that it applied to things like "MUD" and "IRC", etc.. I said "Let's ask that guy over there?"; they said "Why?", and I said "He's William Gibson, and he invented the word". "It's not cyberspace until you can torture someone to death there, and they die in the real world as a result". Didn't stop them misuing it, though... it was "cool" to apply it to what they were doing, since it lent an air of "cool" to their own "nerd-dom", and they wanted to appear "cool" ("31337" for you kiddies out there). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message