Murdering English
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Marc Clifton wrote:
Y'all remember them thar days, righty?
yeah, I remember them days.... why we used to walk ten miles in the snow to school every morning while chopping down trees for firewood, and then collect them trees and carry them back on the way home.... yup, life was hard back then, the youth of today got it easy! :-D
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
modified on Monday, April 21, 2008 7:29 PM
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I guess I am a curmudgeon today. I was sitting here Googling for information on a programming question (which I will NOT mention here), when I came across an old Microsoft forum post in which two guys were going back and forth. I don't know if English was either one's first language or not, but the following caught my eye: "But marshaling this byte array, which, for all intensive purposes, holds exactly the same type and style of data as an unsigned char array would in C++ ...". I assume he meant "all intents and purposes". Maybe he really has "intensive" purposes. :rolleyes: Then, the other guy, in his answer, comes up with this gem: First, he lists two different ways to accomplish the same thing in C++ code. Then the gem... "Note: both 1 and 2 are threaten the same by the interop marshaler, only the C code semantics differs." Now maybe I've not done enough with .NET interop, but I have yet to see the interop marshaller "threaten" anyone or anything... It is Microsoft code, so I guess anything is possible... Reminds me of the old boss I had that used to say that something was a "mute point" (rather than a moot point). :mad: I guess I'll crawl back into my cave now...
WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.
I know an Englishman (not even an American, mind you) on CP who regularly says "I could of done it..." And don't even get me started on the your/you're thing.... :mad:
Cheers, Vikram.
The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.
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I know an Englishman (not even an American, mind you) on CP who regularly says "I could of done it..." And don't even get me started on the your/you're thing.... :mad:
Cheers, Vikram.
The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
And don't even get me started on the your/you're thing
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