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Douglas McNaught wrote (ao): > Sander <sander@humilis.net> writes: > > Erik Mouw wrote (ao): > >> Last night I've been browsing a little more through Dijkstra's papers, > >> and in a completely unrelated paper[1] about a now obsolete computer I > >> found that "prolaag" is a neologism coming from "probeer te verlagen", > >> which means "try and decrease". > > > > "probeer te verlagen" translates to "try to decrease". > > > > "try and decrease" would be "probeer en verlaag". > > Just in case you don't know, "try and" in English is an informal > equivalent of "try to". I agree your translation is probably better. :) I didn't, so thanks for the education :-) I read it as two things (try something, and decrease), but I see what is meant now. And I'm sure Erik Mouw knows his was around in both Dutch and English :-) -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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