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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: [ELISP] Detect focus on emacs.
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 14:31:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICOEJDCHAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1733908c042880828156eba65afaa207@Web.DE>

    >     The first two ducks speak French, no doubt. ...
    >     But the third one? I have no idea!
    >
    > The third duck doesn't quite "get" how to talk canard. It 
    says "angle",
    > because it thinks that ducks are supposed to say "corner" (angle) - 
    > "coin"
    > means "corner, in French.
    
    For me the question is: is the last duck British, or is it a wild one, 
    unadapted, not repeating the slogans as the others do?
    
Maladapted, I guess.

"Angle" is both English and French. The joke is a French one.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-04 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-25 22:47 [ELISP] Detect focus on emacs Micha
2005-04-27 10:10 ` Micha
2005-04-27 12:10   ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]   ` <mailman.3175.1114604433.2895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-04-27 17:41     ` Mathias Dahl
2005-04-27 19:08       ` Micha
2005-05-02 13:50         ` rgb
2005-05-03 13:15           ` Mathias Dahl
2005-05-03 16:57             ` rgb
2005-05-02  0:38 ` [ELISP] " Stefan Monnier
2005-05-02 21:21   ` Michael Cadilhac
2005-05-03  3:09     ` Joe Corneli
2005-05-03 19:33       ` Peter Dyballa
2005-05-04 20:29         ` Drew Adams
2005-05-04 21:15           ` Peter Dyballa
2005-05-04 21:31             ` Drew Adams [this message]
2005-05-04 22:28               ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]           ` <mailman.3325.1115241750.2819.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-05-04 21:44             ` Michael Cadilhac
     [not found]       ` <mailman.3162.1115148898.2819.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-05-04 19:57         ` Michael Cadilhac
2005-05-04 20:03           ` Michael Cadilhac
2005-05-05  2:53           ` Joe Corneli
     [not found]           ` <mailman.3390.1115261851.2819.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-05-05  5:30             ` David Kastrup
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1224.1115069322.2819.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-05-03  8:56     ` Tim X
2005-05-04  3:46       ` Joe Corneli
2005-05-04 15:56       ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-05-04 20:13       ` Michael Cadilhac
2005-05-03 23:24     ` Stefan Monnier

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