And just because a word is a term of art in some specialised field of study does not mean that ordinary people cannot use the word in its ordinary sense.
"The spiders could not be repelled by conventional means as attempts to fumigate the species would run the risk of spreading them further afield."
Sounds like an apt description of the royal family as well. I wonder if they'll set up those cameras on the spiders as webcams so we can all watch their antics? (The spiders, not the royal family.)
Dave Conrad aka Dr. A. van Code Well a friend of a friend of a friend told me
There's a joke about two guys, one stationed at the North Pole and one at the South Pole, playing a game of postal chess.
Every few months the mail would arrive by plane with the other guy's next move. Then, one month, the guy at the North Pole doesn't get the expected letter. He figures the guy at the South Pole didn't mail it in time, and it'll be in the next batch of mail.
A few months go by, and the letter isn't in the next batch of mail, either. A few more months, nothing. Six months go by, and finally a letter arrives from the South Pole. Excited, he tears the letter open and reads:
"J'adoube." (I adjust.)
(In tournament chess there's something known as the "touch move rule" which means that if you touch a piece, you have to move that piece. You can nudge a piece only if you first announce that you're just adjusting it by saying, "I adjust," or, in French, "J'adoube." Classy chess players
prefer to say it in French.)
I don't know if Freenet would be that bad, but if you wanted a more secure game of chess it would be cheaper to just run some other protocol through SSL.
Dave Conrad aka Dr. A. van Code Well a friend of a friend of a friend told me
Spelling flames are usually odious, but this one is worthwhile since verbatim is clearly interested in self-improvement. Too bad his classmates don't share that sentiment.
I'll add one more log to the fire:
it's: "it is," or "it has"
its: possessive pronoun
"Its" is like other possessive pronouns without
apostrophes, such as "his," "hers," "yours," "ours" and "theirs."
So verbatim ought to have said, "The college is
very well respected for its animation and illustration departments...." A simple way to remind yourself is to say "it is" in your head whenever you see "it's." ("... well respected for IT IS animation and....")
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"The spiders could not be repelled by conventional means as attempts to fumigate the species would run the risk of spreading them further afield."
Sounds like an apt description of the royal family as well. I wonder if they'll set up those cameras on the spiders as webcams so we can all watch their antics? (The spiders, not the royal family.)
Dave Conrad aka Dr. A. van Code
Well a friend of a friend of a friend told me
Every few months the mail would arrive by plane with the other guy's next move. Then, one month, the guy at the North Pole doesn't get the expected letter. He figures the guy at the South Pole didn't mail it in time, and it'll be in the next batch of mail.
A few months go by, and the letter isn't in the next batch of mail, either. A few more months, nothing. Six months go by, and finally a letter arrives from the South Pole. Excited, he tears the letter open and reads:
"J'adoube." (I adjust.)
(In tournament chess there's something known as the "touch move rule" which means that if you touch a piece, you have to move that piece. You can nudge a piece only if you first announce that you're just adjusting it by saying, "I adjust," or, in French, "J'adoube." Classy chess players prefer to say it in French.)
I don't know if Freenet would be that bad, but if you wanted a more secure game of chess it would be cheaper to just run some other protocol through SSL.
Dave Conrad aka Dr. A. van Code
Well a friend of a friend of a friend told me
I'll add one more log to the fire:
it's: "it is," or "it has"
its: possessive pronoun
"Its" is like other possessive pronouns without apostrophes, such as "his," "hers," "yours," "ours" and "theirs."
So verbatim ought to have said, "The college is very well respected for its animation and illustration departments...." A simple way to remind yourself is to say "it is" in your head whenever you see "it's." ("... well respected for IT IS animation and ....")
Cheers!