:wally
just wanted to use that one once!
We tend to get pretty colloquial when posting, eh
Knead, you’re right, thanks.
:wally
just wanted to use that one once!
We tend to get pretty colloquial when posting, eh
Knead, you’re right, thanks.
Hey, thanks, kuroashi. I think that’s the first :wally I’ve gotten.
Wait, that came out wrong …
The putz remark was directed towards struct, BTW, and I’m not saying it seriously. I use “comma splices” all the time in posts. But at work (I proofread), I have to watch out for things that are going to be printed.
putz (noun)
Vulgar Slang. A penis.
I don’t know if it’s a grammatical error to use a person’s enormous attribute as a predicate adjective to describe that person, but it would be more proper to say “struct has an enormous putz” rather than “struct is an enormous putz”. However, after re-reading the flame, I will have to grant that the meaning you were attempting to convey was more along the lines of the latter than the former, even though the former is the accurate case.
On an unrelated note, have you ever noticed that the writing styles of many typically assigned English Literature authors tend to egregiously violate the rules of formal grammar? Faulkner and Joyce are two that come right to my mind.
OK, you’re a fun putz.
We were talking about manuals though, not Faulkner or Silverstein. I don’t know what kind of literature you enjoy reading…Hey, maybe we should start a revolt and begin writing computer manuals and such colloquially! Macintosh OS XI will be the Best Seller four weeks straight! People will enjoy reading about photovoltaics again!
Bwahaha, we could start a whole cottage industry of canonical authors as technical writers! How about Chaucer supporting Windows: “When that error with its screen of blue / doth freeze your system and force you to reboot / although your life is made a living hell / just reinstall kernel32.dll.” Or Shakespeare writing motherboard manuals: “Once more unto the PCI standard host CPU bridge, dear friends, once more / and close pins 2 and 3 up with our jumper!”
Actually I’m a trimmed putz. ;j
Oops. Sorry about that. I’d never want to get in the way of another man’s putz.
I agree with struct that the software does not affect the basic physical characteristics of a computer (i.e. has no effect on them) so saying a computer “is” Windows is not accurate.
But it would be acceptable a computer “has” Windows [installed on it and ready for use], and the exact form does depend on the numbers of machines involved.
Those computers have Win2000, while the remainder have WindowsXP, except for Jim’s laptop, which has Windows 98.
Substitute “run”, “run” and “runs” (or “use”, “use” and “uses”) for the above verbs and it also works fine.
As for comma splicing, try living in a province where prices are often expressed as $51,34