![]() | |||||||||||||
Messages in this thread |
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 08:10:57PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Andy Isaacson @bitmover.com wrote: > > 'cuz I don't get pissed when people say "thanks for bending over, > > now bend over farther". > Oh, is that what it's like working for Larry :) It's an amusing feature of English that leaving out the word "backwards" can so drastically change the meaning of a sentence, without actually changing its meaning. (I wonder if this is peculiar to American English, or to my dialect, or if it's shared with British. Linguist BCCed.) -andy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
| Last update: 2005-03-22 13:01 [from the cache] ©2003-2008 | |||||||||||||