Interesting read about the future of Ubuntu

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Mon Dec 27 08:04:17 UTC 2010


On 27 December 2010 04:24, Goh Lip <g.lip at gmx.com> wrote:
> On Monday 27,December,2010 12:14 PM, Billie Walsh wrote:
>> There is no such thing as "English Language". Only the hundreds of forms
>> of speech spoken by "english speaking people" around the world.
>> "English" is a polyglot.
>
> Yo, right on, my good man. I shall not refudiate you.

I would not normally correct minor errors in language, but since
language is what we are talking about, and I am not sure whether this
was an intentional Palinism (and coming from Goh Lip I suspect it may
have been) I thought correction would be in order.  Refudiate is not a
word, I suspect there is confusion between refute and repudiate.
Also, in either case. it is the claim that would (or in this case
would not be) repudiated rather than the writer.

Colin




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