From: Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: metamail
Date: 08 Dec 1998 14:29:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7667bm4el4.fsf@ppllc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Karl Kleinpaste's message of "08 Dec 1998 11:47:31 -0500"
The usage of "the" in my case was a typo. And I happen to agree with your
sentiments.
>>>>> "Karl" == Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com> writes:
Karl> (On a side note, I'm disturbed by the recent tendency to discuss
Karl> "the" everything. This trend seems to have started with "the"
Karl> gimp, rather than just gimp, making me wonder if we're soon to
Karl> start talking about "the" emacs and "the" linux and heaven knows
Karl> what else. It's just gimp, and emacs, and linux, and metamail. It
Karl> seems to me that these are all names, not nouns; I'm not "the" Karl
Karl> [especially since I'm not unique with the name], I'm just Karl.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-12-08 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-08 16:43 metamail Jake Colman
1998-12-08 16:47 ` metamail Karl Kleinpaste
1998-12-08 17:17 ` metamail François Pinard
1998-12-08 18:38 ` metamail Karl Kleinpaste
1998-12-08 19:29 ` Jake Colman [this message]
1998-12-09 9:36 ` metamail Steinar Bang
1998-12-09 11:49 ` metamail Kai.Grossjohann
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