Interesting read about the future of Ubuntu

Robert Holtzman holtzm at cox.net
Mon Dec 27 23:42:30 UTC 2010


On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 08:04:17AM +0000, Colin Law 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.

Oh, give me a break!

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Bob Holtzman
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