Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 10:28:02 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Language in danger: Language loss Message-ID: <20020528102802.K16567@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020527175613.A1214@HAL9000.wox.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0205261919370.49175-100000@m-net.arbornet.org> <3CF17486.F06F3E6A@mindspring.com> <20020527005647.A50028@FreeBSD.org> <3CF1CD8C.C3262181@mindspring.com> <20020527014353.B1951@HAL9000.wox.org> <20020528091410.G29491@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020528001001.GA20175@hades.hell.gr> <20020528095208.A16567@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020527175613.A1214@HAL9000.wox.org>
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On Monday, 27 May 2002 at 17:56:13 -0700, David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>: >> On Tuesday, 28 May 2002 at 3:10:02 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>> On 2002-05-28 09:14, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>>> On Monday, 27 May 2002 at 1:43:53 -0700, David Schultz wrote: >>>>>> Feel free to provide the counter example originally requested. It >>>>>> would be amusing to see someone find a way to discredit Goedel's >>>>>> Theorem on a "-chat" mailing list. >>>>> >>>>> Eh? What's wrong with Godel's proof for Godel's Theorem? >>>> >>>> Who's Godel? >>> >>> Instead of trying to duplicate the wealth of information that the >>> Internet has already, here's a few references: >>> >>> Kurt Goedel was a mathematician. >> >> Ah, you mean Gödel, not Godel. > > Yes. I don't use umlauts often enough outside of TeX to bother to > figure out an easy way to enter them on my keyboard. Besides, > extended ASCII characters get mangled somewhere on the way from mutt > to Emacs, and the last time I tried to debug a misfeature in Emacs it > took me two days. Hmm, it works fine for me. Anyway, there's an alternative: put an e after the non-umlauted letter, like the others have done. Just replacing it with a different letter is wrong. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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