From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:39:36 +0100 From: Eris Discordia To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <160F5E4B5D4057F12BB54C75@[192.168.1.2]> In-Reply-To: <4a1863cb6c2667274b1fd5c2babd9568@quanstro.net> References: <4a1863cb6c2667274b1fd5c2babd9568@quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] Simplified Chinese plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6dd0fe58-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > i think you need to read some chaucer. you are > the boiling frog in a pot of words. English isn't my native tongue. It's a bit too much to expect me to read 14th century "stuff" only to understand what probably amounts to an affront. You tell me what is "the boiling frog in a pot of words." --On Saturday, September 12, 2009 10:27 -0400 erik quanstrom wrote: >> > These are novel and amusing orthographies and in-crowd jargon and >> > nothing more [...] >> >> I think we agree there: I said they were fad. > > i think you need to read some chaucer. you are > the boiling frog in a pot of words. > > - erik >