* Re: [9fans] blanks in file names
@ 2002-07-05 19:21 David Gordon Hogan
2002-07-05 19:52 ` Jim Choate
2002-07-05 20:10 ` Mark Bitting
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: David Gordon Hogan @ 2002-07-05 19:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
>>>> Change space! Change the file delimiter!
>>>> The shell will never recover. The system will break.
>>>> I will mourn.
>>>
>>> Isn't a haiku supposed to have 17 syllables?
>>
>> Some would dispute the imposition of such an absolute rule.
>
> Is that why your message has only 16 syllables?
Word.
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* Re: [9fans] blanks in file names
2002-07-05 19:21 [9fans] blanks in file names David Gordon Hogan
@ 2002-07-05 19:52 ` Jim Choate
2002-07-05 20:10 ` Mark Bitting
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jim Choate @ 2002-07-05 19:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, David Gordon Hogan wrote:
> >>>> Change space! Change the file delimiter!
> >>>> The shell will never recover. The system will break.
> >>>> I will mourn.
> >>>
> >>> Isn't a haiku supposed to have 17 syllables?
> >>
> >> Some would dispute the imposition of such an absolute rule.
> >
> > Is that why your message has only 16 syllables?
>
> Word.
Actually only one style of Hiaku uses 17 'syllables' in Japanese. Not the
same thing as English 'syllables'. For an excellent discussion on this
point, and how to compensate for it...
The Haiku Handbook: How to write, share, and teach Haiku
W.J. Higginson, P. Harter
ISBN 4-7700-1430-9
$13 US
Enjoy!
--
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When I die, I would like to be born again as me.
Hugh Hefner
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* Re: [9fans] Haiku maaaaadness!
2002-07-05 20:10 ` Mark Bitting
@ 2002-07-05 19:52 ` Sam
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Sam @ 2002-07-05 19:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
>
> To write a Haiku
> of exactly seventeen syllables
> is diff.
>
Now surely you jest,
Writing a decent haiku,
is rather easy.
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* Re: [9fans] blanks in file names
2002-07-05 19:21 [9fans] blanks in file names David Gordon Hogan
2002-07-05 19:52 ` Jim Choate
@ 2002-07-05 20:10 ` Mark Bitting
2002-07-05 19:52 ` [9fans] Haiku maaaaadness! Sam
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Mark Bitting @ 2002-07-05 20:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
On Friday 05 July 2002 15:21, you wrote:
> >>>> Change space! Change the file delimiter!
> >>>> The shell will never recover. The system will break.
> >>>> I will mourn.
> >>>
> >>> Isn't a haiku supposed to have 17 syllables?
> >>
> >> Some would dispute the imposition of such an absolute rule.
> >
> > Is that why your message has only 16 syllables?
>
> Word.
To write a Haiku
of exactly seventeen syllables
is diff.
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* Re: [9fans] Haiku maaaaadness!
2002-07-06 9:01 Andrew Simmons
@ 2002-07-08 8:56 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Douglas A. Gwyn @ 2002-07-08 8:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Andrew Simmons wrote:
> Spaces in file names,
> Do I care? I don't think so.
> I'm off to the pub.
This life is for squirrels!
I'm off to the drugstore to whistle at girls.
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* Re: [9fans] Haiku maaaaadness!
@ 2002-07-06 9:01 Andrew Simmons
2002-07-08 8:56 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Simmons @ 2002-07-06 9:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Plan 9 is quite nice.
Acme, plumbing, pipes, but no
Spaces in file names.
Spaces in file names,
Do I care? I don't think so.
I'm off to the pub.
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