From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: participation & contribution [was: Latest changes with lisp/uni-*.el and leim/quail]
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2013 13:39:39 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9gluh4s.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8738md103p.fsf@zigzag.favinet> (Thien-Thi Nguyen's message of "Sun, 01 Dec 2013 08:50:18 +0100")
Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org> writes:
> To me, the construction "Please ACT." has command overtones, whereas
> the construction "Could you please ACT?" i would take unambiguously as
> a request.
Since we are going Meta...
It is not only felicity with the language alone but also the cultural
and historical baggage. (I believe this thread is a result of latter
type.)
To me - the baser me - an Occidental "Please and Thanks" is VERY
DIFFERENT from Oriental "Please and Thanks". So...
Will, the twain meet?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-01 8:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-28 17:32 Latest changes with lisp/uni-*.el and leim/quail Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-28 20:36 ` Glenn Morris
2013-11-29 8:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-29 13:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-29 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-29 16:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-29 7:46 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-11-29 8:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-29 9:03 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-11-29 20:10 ` Glenn Morris
2013-11-29 21:40 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-11-30 0:37 ` participation & contribution [was: Latest changes with lisp/uni-*.el and leim/quail] Drew Adams
2013-11-30 4:47 ` Jambunathan K
2013-11-30 8:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-30 8:43 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-11-30 11:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-30 11:11 ` Jarek Czekalski
2013-11-30 23:05 ` Drew Adams
2013-12-01 7:26 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-12-01 7:27 ` Jambunathan K
2013-12-02 13:29 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2013-12-02 13:37 ` Jarek Czekalski
2013-12-03 10:51 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-12-03 20:03 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2013-12-03 20:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-12-03 20:55 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2013-12-03 21:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-12-04 8:50 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-12-04 10:05 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-12-04 13:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-12-04 13:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-12-08 11:01 ` adventures w/ git-bzr Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-12-01 7:50 ` participation & contribution [was: Latest changes with lisp/uni-*.el and leim/quail] Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-12-01 8:09 ` Jambunathan K [this message]
2013-11-30 8:47 ` Jambunathan K
2013-11-30 13:50 ` Stefan Monnier
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2013-11-30 18:41 ` Drew Adams
2013-12-01 0:05 ` Karl Fogel
2013-12-01 17:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-12-01 18:33 ` Karl Fogel
2013-12-01 19:03 ` Stefan Monnier
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