Interesting read about the future of Ubuntu

Cybe R. Wizard cyber_wizard at mindspring.com
Mon Dec 27 08:54:04 UTC 2010


On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 08:04:17 +0000
Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
It's plain to see that the Palin mind is in disrefute.   ;-]

Hot dog, I love this list and the clear-thinking that /can/ go on here
from time to time.

Cybe R. Wizard
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conscientious stupidity.
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