Pierre Abbat wrote:
Toby Bartels wrote:
>Again, nobody mentioned anything about
>"removing large sections of the Napoleonic Code".
>But I realise that you're joking; it's a nice pun.
>Especially when Pierre is ignoring the subject,
>it's easy to pretend that he's ignoring articles too.
>At least you had the presence of mind
>to not be offended by your own pun this time.
I wasn't ignoring the subject. I was at a
friend's house getting his USB DSL
modem to work with his new Linux box. It's a recent Mandrake distro, and
there should have been instructions on how to make it work with Mandrake, but
weren't. So I had to figure out which instructions were irrelevant (don't
need to compile the module) and which had to be done differently.
And this led to sloppy grammar when blocking IPs on Wikipedia?
Anyway, if you look at the clauses indicating why the IP was blocked,
I'm certain that you'll find that they contain no subjects, only predicates.
Eli's interpretation of these clauses as insults
relies on their also omitting articles ("the").
(These terms "subject" and "article" are being used in their
technical grammatical senses here.)
-- Toby