politeness

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Mon Sep 15 19:23:51 UTC 2008


2008/9/15 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
> You missed the point - "HawkinG", not "HawkinS".  He's only the most
> brilliant man on the planet :-)
>

Ah, thanks. Too often, with long or obscure English and Russian words,
and especially names, I only read the first few letters and then move
on. But this one I should know!

> (I agree adding Bekenstein's name is not really necessary - he came up with
> a theory that is basic to Hawking radiation, but he didn't theorize Hawking
> radiation.  I think the best computer-related analogy was saying Al Gore
> invented the Internet).

Could you please rephrase that as a car analogy? I only understand car
analogies.
(/. joke, if it is not well known)

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