X-Now-Reading

X-Now-Reading

[Lars Balker Rasmussen]

The alarming speed with which Lars ploughs through books while answering
articles on this list is amazing:

X-Now-Reading: Jane Smiley's _At Paradise Gate_
Date: 29 Sep 1998 12:40:14 +0200         

X-Now-Reading: Kate Wilhelm's _The Dark Door_  
Date: 29 Sep 1998 12:43:28 +0200

X-Now-Reading: Ursula K. Le Guin's _The Word for World is Forest_
Date: 29 Sep 1998 12:48:53 +0200              

X-Now-Reading: Stephen Jay Goulds _Hxnsetenner og hestetfr_      
Date: 29 Sep 1998 12:54:32 +0200          

X-Now-Reading: Jane Smiley's _At Paradise Gate_                  
Date: 29 Sep 1998 12:55:05 +0200              

X-Now-Reading: Ursula K. Le Guin's _The Word for World is Forest_
Date: 29 Sep 1998 13:01:41 +0200

X-Now-Reading: Ursula K. Le Guin, Ernest Waugh and Alan Nicholson's _Way
of the Water's Going_
Date: 29 Sep 1998 13:06:06 +0200

Not even content with reading the books once!  How does he do it?
-- 
Lars Balker Rasmussen, Software Engineer, Mjolner Informatics ApS
lbr@mjolner.dk

Re: X-Now-Reading

[Lee Willis]

Lars Balker Rasmussen <lbr@mjolner.dk> writes:

> The alarming speed with which Lars ploughs through books while answering
> articles on this list is amazing:
> 
> X-Now-Reading: Jane Smiley's _At Paradise Gate_
> Date: 29 Sep 1998 12:40:14 +0200         

Wow, bizarre, I've just been thinking about these headers of Lars' (is
that the right apostrophy-ing?)

Noticing the _title_ bits I was wondering is Gnus supposed to emphasize
these or not since mine doesn't and I was just wondering what I'd need
to set up to get the emphasizing done on headers as well as bodies ..

Cheers ...
Lee.
-- 
I was doing object-oriented assembly at 1 year old ...  
For some reason my mom insists on calling it "Playing with blocks"

Re: X-Now-Reading

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Lee Willis <lee@gbdirect.co.uk>:

> Wow, bizarre, I've just been thinking about these headers of Lars'
> (is that the right apostrophy-ing?)

Yes.  That's the only legal use of a genitive apostrophe in
Norwegian. 

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[Jørgen Wahlberg]

[ Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> ]

|  > Wow, bizarre, I've just been thinking about these headers of Lars'
|  > (is that the right apostrophy-ing?)
|  
|  Yes.  That's the only legal use of a genitive apostrophe in
|  Norwegian. 

In Norwegian, that is very true.

But, as it is an English sentence, we'll have to do it the English
way: Lars's

 - jørgen

-- 
Jørgen Wahlberg <jorgenw@sys.sol.no>  -  SOL System AS  -  Plattformsutvikling
            Et cum Lepus interrogaret: "Mavis mel vel lac condensatum cum pane
            tuo?" tanta alacritate affectus est, ut "Utrumque" diceret, sed
            deinde, ne avidus videretur, addidit: "Sed, amabo te, mitte panem!"

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[Alan Shutko]

>>>>> "R" == Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

R> In English, at least the butchery spoken and written in the United
R> States, both "Lars'" and "Lars's" are acceptable.  The former is
R> 'more correct' than the latter, but neither are considered to be
R> incorrect.

As with much English grammer, it depends on what book you're reading.
Strunk & White says that Lars's is more correct.  *shrug*

-- 
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - By consent of the corrupted
It's all in the mind, ya know.

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[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Lee Willis <lee@gbdirect.co.uk> writes:

> Noticing the _title_ bits I was wondering is Gnus supposed to emphasize
> these or not since mine doesn't and I was just wondering what I'd need
> to set up to get the emphasizing done on headers as well as bodies ..

Hm.  `gnus-article-emphasize' only does emphasis on bodies.  Is that
the right thing to do, or not?

If we do it on the headers as well, then we'll get default-coloured
emphasized text in the headers, which doesn't look all that nice.
Er. 

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: X-Now-Reading

[Lee Willis]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Hm.  `gnus-article-emphasize' only does emphasis on bodies.  Is that
> the right thing to do, or not?

Well it seemed reasonable since you could get all sorts of funny
characters in headers which might not necessarily imply that emphasis
should take place. I was just wondering if it was turn on-able since
you'd put the _'s there ...

> If we do it on the headers as well, then we'll get default-coloured
> emphasized text in the headers, which doesn't look all that nice.
> Er. 

gnus-article-emphasize-headers?

Lee.
-- 
I was doing object-oriented assembly at 1 year old ...  
For some reason my mom insists on calling it "Playing with blocks"

Re: X-Now-Reading

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Lee Willis <lee@gbdirect.co.uk> writes:

> I was just wondering if it was turn on-able since you'd put the _'s
> there ...

It's not; I just like to do _this_.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: X-Now-Reading

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Balker Rasmussen <lbr@mjolner.dk> writes:

> The alarming speed with which Lars ploughs through books while answering
> articles on this list is amazing:
> 
> X-Now-Reading: Jane Smiley's _At Paradise Gate_

[...]

:-)

This is only correct for some values of "now", of course.

But I do have an awful tendency to start reading a whole bunch of
books more or less at the same time.  The dreaded
little-kid-in-candy-store syndrome.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: X-Now-Reading

[Robert Bihlmeyer]

Hi,

>>>>> On 29 Sep 1998 14:22:03 +0200
>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> said:

 >> X-Now-Reading: Jane Smiley's _At Paradise Gate_

 Lars> This is only correct for some values of "now", of course.

Well, it would be quite impolite (and difficult!) for you to read
books while answering e-mail.

	Robbe

-- 
Robert Bihlmeyer	reads: Deutsch, English, MIME, Latin-1, NO SPAM!
<robbe@orcus.priv.at>	<http://stud2.tuwien.ac.at/~e9426626/sig.html>

Re: X-Now-Reading

[Wes Hardaker]

>>>>> On 30 Sep 1998 13:51:09 +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer <e9426626@stud2.tuwien.ac.at> said:

Robbe> Well, it would be quite impolite (and difficult!) for you to
Robbe> read books while answering e-mail.

It's when he starts quoting the books instead of the message he's
repyling to that we'll be in trouble...

-- 
"Ninjas aren't dangerous.  They're more afraid of you than you are of them."

Re: X-Now-Reading

[Felix Lee]

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>:
> Hmmm... something in the back of my mind is saying that it has something to
> do with whether or not the posessor is singular or plural.  "Lars" being a
> singular gets "'s" to denote a posessive.  I think.  I'm not sure, and I
> grew up speaking the language.

yea, that's right.  except for "Jesus", who's special.
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