Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 16:58:04 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grammar Message-ID: <20030530215804.GK61246@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <20030530213625.GA41089@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <3ECD3A8C.1040506@potentialtech.com> <00ae01c32668$2ff5ad70$2441d5cc@nitanjared> <20030531072026.O33085@welearn.com.au> <20030530213625.GA41089@wopr.caltech.edu>
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On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 02:36:25PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Matthew Hunt, and lo! it spake thus:
> On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 07:20:26AM +1000, Sue Blake wrote:
>
> > Recently I provided some IT staff with the documentation for a
> > new piece of software. Many times it said things like "In case
> > Foo, do Bar". The users (correctly in my view) read that as
> > advice of a precaution worth taking, and took it.
>
> Could this be a .us-vs-.au issue? Here in the US, at least, it is
> common for fire alarms to have instructions like "In case of fire, pull
> handle." And I interpreted your examples the way the author intended,
> although I understand the ambiguity. Certainly mothers here will tell
> their kids to carry sweaters "in case it cools off."
And actually, I read that as a program:
[...]
case Foo:
bar();
break;
:-}
--
Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/
"The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I
haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"
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