From: Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [ANN] OCaml Meeting 2009 -- dinner, schedule for talks
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:03:38 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrngo6n8q.e8q.sylvain@gallu.homelinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <416387.89574.qm@web111507.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
On 30-01-2009, Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> No, I mean "Monday". I need to call the restaurant before midday on
>> Tuesday, so I need to have the list on Monday (or Tuesday before midday,
>> but Monday is better). The dinner, I am speaking of, is on Tuesday.
>
> Yeah, English grammar is ambiguous that way... I would phrase the
> statement as "We need to know on Monday how many people are coming
> to the dinner (on Tuesday) to book the restaurant".
>
> An alternative is start learning Lojban:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban
>
Re-reading my own annoucement (and followup), I realize that this is not
clear.
But you catch the meaning of it. So lets make it official:
We need to know on Monday how many people are coming to the dinner (on
Tuesday) to book the restaurant.
Regards
Sylvain Le Gall
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-30 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-30 13:46 Sylvain Le Gall
2009-01-30 14:27 ` [Caml-list] " Alan Schmitt
2009-01-30 14:59 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2009-01-30 16:52 ` [Caml-list] " Dario Teixeira
2009-01-30 20:03 ` Sylvain Le Gall [this message]
2009-01-30 21:54 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
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