From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: khm@sciops.net (Kurt H Maier) Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 23:30:13 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] An amusing error message In-Reply-To: <20140510222034.GO17946@mercury.ccil.org> References: <20140509210729.6D80618C09B@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <20140510002011.IEnjtHhZ%sdaoden@yandex.com> <8AE10DB9-3685-4E07-AA94-B991D41D8D9D@sdf.org> <20140510115158.x+L+UNYY%sdaoden@yandex.com> <20140510201801.GE17946@mercury.ccil.org> <20140510223942.e6o0M3U0%sdaoden@yandex.com> <20140510222034.GO17946@mercury.ccil.org> Message-ID: <20140510233013.Horde.5bXDKJY0upPXRcotFXOX6w4@ssl.eumx.net> I don't think there's any actual disagreement on your points, just a lot of useless syntactic fiddling. Claiming German isn't German because it's *different* German is going to lead to someone claiming by analogy that Beowulf isn't English, and then the world will end. What do you stand to gain here? khm