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.
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Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com
Rattlesnake Enterprises http://www.rattlesnake.com
next prev parent 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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