From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13817 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Me, the businessperson Date: 08 Feb 1998 17:03:28 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <6fn2g74snl.fsf@bavur.dna.lth.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153115 11324 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:31:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:31:55 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA01886 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 08:38:29 -0800 Original-Received: from farabi.hpc.uh.edu (farabi.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA10739 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 10:35:18 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@[10.1.1.1]) by farabi.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAP16650; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 18:41:21 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 08 Feb 1998 10:29:12 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA06454 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 10:28:10 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 8189 invoked by uid 504); 8 Feb 1998 16:28:05 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 8166 invoked from network); 8 Feb 1998 16:28:03 -0000 Original-Received: from xyplex17.uio.no (HELO sparky.gnus.org) (129.240.154.37) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 8 Feb 1998 16:28:00 -0000 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by sparky.gnus.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA32252; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 17:30:58 +0100 Mail-Copies-To: never Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Bud Rogers's message of "04 Feb 1998 15:13:40 -0600" X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.23/XEmacs 19.15 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > We had many horrendous arguments about how to do things until we > realized we were mostly arguing about language. Even though we were > both using English, we were almost speaking two different languages. "Why is lenguage Ignatz?" "Language is, that we may understand one another.» «Is 'that so?» «Yes. That's so.» «Can you unda-stend a Finn or a Leplender or a Oshkosher, huh?» «No-» «Can a Finn, or a Leplender, or a Oshkosher unda-stend you?» «No.» «Then, I would say lenguage is that we may mis-unda-stand each udda.» -- George Herriman -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen