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| Grishnakh Oct 17, 2011 8:56 PM EDT |
"Reiser4 has been in development going back to 2004 and had a promising future until the conviction of Hans Reiser and demise of his Namesys company following the murder of Reiser's wife," is inaccurate, and should read: "Reiser4 has been in development going back to 2004 and had a promising future until the conviction of Hans Reiser and demise of his Namesys company following Reiser's murder of his wife Nina," or similar. The previous implies that Nina was murdered by some anonymous person, and Reiser happened to be convicted for it, and is disingenuous. Reiser himself murdered his wife, and this should not be glossed over. Moreover, if his filesystem gets any more use, it should be renamed "NinaFS" in her honor, as he doesn't deserve his name living on after his actions. |
| Koriel Oct 18, 2011 12:49 AM EDT |
Your right it does read like that, wondering if that was deliberate or accidental? |
| tracyanne Oct 18, 2011 1:39 AM EDT |
Quoting:Your right it does read like that, wondering if that was deliberate or accidental? Probably a syntax error, similar to yours. Quoting:Your right should read "you're right", what you wrote means something quite different, referring to that side of you where your right hand is located. |
| Fettoosh Oct 18, 2011 9:37 AM EDT |
Quoting:Probably a syntax error, similar to yours. Good point TA and thank you for pointing it out. I personally don't like all the short form syntax, NOT the people who use them mind you, and hate it when they have totally different meaning. I have enough trouble understanding good English. :-) |
| skelband Oct 18, 2011 1:10 PM EDT |
As a Brit. reading newspaper headlines over here in Canada (where I am at the moment) I do find them very confusing. They have a strange kind of compressed syntax which can make the meaning very ambiguous: Examples: "Man killed prostitute: Police", what does this mean exactly? Is it a statement by the police, is the suspect a policeman or was the prostitute an undercover cop? "Army, Navy carry out exercises", common to see "," substituted for "and" or "&" but sometimes I have to read the headline a number of times to suss out exactly what they mean. |
| chalbersma Oct 19, 2011 2:02 AM EDT |
Oh britian why you no speak english so well. ;) |
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