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From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to find out methods for tramp?
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 15:46:47 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m17KhfT-000Ij1C@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200206191512.g5JFC9402106@rum.cs.yale.edu> (monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu)

   I think the use of a capital together with the particular grammatical
   construct used makes it clear that this use of the word `windows'
   refers to a proper name rather than to the general concept of a window.
   I'm surprised that anybody would be confused.

I get confused because many of the people I know refer to `X Windows'
and shorten that phrase to `Windows'.

I also know some people who use Microsoft operating systems.
Sometimes they use the word `Windows' the way the Microsoft marketing
department wants them to, in a manner that denies the existence of any
other windowing system.  This multiple use of the word is what causes
the ambiguity.

-- 
    Robert J. Chassell                  bob@rattlesnake.com
    Rattlesnake Enterprises             http://www.rattlesnake.com

  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-19 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-17 16:42 how to find out methods for tramp? Robert J. Chassell
2002-06-17 17:17 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-06-17 18:19   ` Miles Bader
2002-06-19  2:23   ` Richard Stallman
2002-06-19 13:24     ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-06-19 15:12       ` Stefan Monnier
2002-06-19 15:46         ` Robert J. Chassell [this message]
2002-06-19 15:52           ` Stefan Monnier
2002-06-19 17:15             ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-06-20 11:22           ` Andreas Schwab
2002-06-20 13:17             ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-06-20 13:49               ` Andreas Schwab
2002-06-21  9:42             ` Richard Stallman
2002-06-21  9:57               ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-06-21 13:25                 ` Miles Bader
2002-06-18 16:29 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-06-18 16:58   ` Stefan Monnier
2002-06-18 17:45   ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-06-19  5:21     ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-06-19 10:05     ` Kai Großjohann
2002-06-19 12:32       ` Kim F. Storm
2002-06-19 12:45         ` Kai Großjohann
2002-06-19 14:28       ` Robert J. Chassell

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