[Gambas-user] The interview on FLOSS

adamnt42 at ...626... adamnt42 at ...626...
Mon Sep 21 08:19:51 CEST 2015


On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 23:22:27 -0400
Kevin Fishburne <kevinfishburne at ...1887...> wrote:

> On 09/19/2015 01:16 PM, Caveat wrote:
> > Really not sure what you mean by 'doesn't come from English'... of
> > course it comes from Greek, but it's a word appearing in most English
> > dictionaries... so?  Should we exclude anorexia as an English word
> > because it also comes from Greek, or manxome because it was made up by
> > Lewis Carroll... ? :-)
> 
> All words came from half-human apes in caves making grunting sounds, 
> which at some point they decided was more useful than the usual boolean 
> expression of "hit with club" or "do not hit with club". The evolution 
> of language is a complex topic, and these days to some degree they all 
> bleed together borrowing from each other (especially English, which is 
> messy and fluid).
> 
> -- 
> Kevin Fishburne
> Eight Virtues
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> 
I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation
prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the king
and queen moult no feather. 

I have of late—but wherefore I know not—
lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; 
and indeed it goes so heavily
with my disposition that this goodly frame, 

the earth, seems to me a sterile
promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, 
this brave o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted
with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to
me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason!

How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how
express and admirable! In action how like an angel!
In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the
world! The paragon of animals! 

And yet, to me,
what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not
me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling
you seem to say so.


mmmneh, one grunter did alright, methinks.

-- 
B Bruen <adamnt42 at ...3379... (sort of)>




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