From: Andy Isaacson <adi@bitmover.com>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
Subject: Re: BK/Web improvements (includes patch server)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:18:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040315201840.GA17813@bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040315201057.GB10682@mail.shareable.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-15 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-15 6:16 BK/Web improvements (includes patch server) Larry McVoy
2004-03-15 11:41 ` Erik Andersen
2004-03-15 20:02 ` Andy Isaacson
2004-03-15 20:10 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-15 20:18 ` Andy Isaacson [this message]
2004-03-15 20:44 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-18 21:49 ` David Woodhouse
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