Harehunter

And people accuse me of having too much pun. Never mind. I get blamed for every bad joke at work, even if I'm not even in the same room.

Sorry, I'll try to do better.

And to think, good old Gutenberg helped to proliferate the old spellings and thereby locked them into place, even as the pronunciations evolved. No wonder English is so hard to learn.

This one has Jeweled Golems instead of Ice or Fire or Bladed, so prep your Basic Powder to cure the acid that they'll spit on you.

It changes the direction the belts move. Without this change, it is impossible to reach the next level.

Set the three belts as follows:

 

Alpha - B

Beta - B

Star - A

Isn't the Sar Chasm something like a bottomless pit?

What did poor Will do that he needs to be slaughtered at?

In my English lit class, we had to read several passages from Chauser. I found it fascinating just how the English language had changed from Middle English to modern English. Even more interesting is that there are many words from the Middle English still in current usage in Scottish dialect. I had the opportunity to talk with someone from Glasgow, and when he mentioned the climate as 'dreich', I actually understood him.

I guess I was lucky in that my teacher had actually made several trips to England and Scotland and had studied the language quite thoroughly. Did you know that at one time all the letters in the word knight were actually pronounced?

I guess it is just de-nature of de business.

You are right on the money, Trenton. However, the dialog makes the topic of dragon mating habits even more confusing. An excerpt of the dialog with him:

 

Oh my aching eardrums!! Now I really need to be taken away, ha ha!

Thanks, Mystic, I deserved that one.

 

 

x Marx the spot.

We had a problem with ethanol pilfering at my university. The staff solved the problem by denaturing it with phenolphthalein.

I stand corrected. I was using the word improperly by its definition. I am still grasping for the correct word to convey my meaning. And your use of the Inquisition does not offend me. In fact, that is another perfect example of a theocracy run amok. Another reason to prohibit the establishment of a state church.

Oh my aching eyeballs. I'll bet you can still read that tape without the machine, too.

I always thought that the stability of the MAC OS was due to the closed architecture of the system. By keeping the core hardware proprietary, Apple had a finite set of components to write its OS to. The IBM model invited the invention of various, competing hardware, over which it had no control, thus resulting in an anarchic melange of semi compatible hardware and software. Even as stable as the current MS OS's and applications, in my final analysis, Windows is a pane in the glass.

On the PC at least, I use the numeric key pad to the right of the arrow keys. You have to keep it in NumLock mode to use the diagonal keys. Pressing the 5 key does the same as Wait.

English grammar has not been affected Latin or Greek, but its vocabulary has. Just take a quick tour of the medical dictionary, which is heavily populated by words manufactured from Greek root words. Other technologies manufacture words from Latin roots. BTW, the melding of adjectives to nouns to form new nouns is a characteristic of German, which loves to do that. As for words like rodeo, lariat, poncho, they are taken directly from Spanish.

The Norman French influence is evident from the perspective of food. To the Saxons who raised the livestock, it was called pig or cow. To the Normans, it was referred as pork or beouf, pork coming from Latin root word porcus into the French language, and beouf which came from Old French. Note that the transliteration of beouf to beef demonstrates my earlier point about the inconsistency of keeping the pronunciation and changing the spelling.

I would have to go with your first statement. It may appear to be a bit wordy on the surface, but it makes a much clearer statement.

"The only winning solution is not to play.
How about a nice game of chess?"


On the database server side, I prefer Unix. It allows me to set up different environments for each user, as opposed to all users sharing a common registry. But on the desktop I am a strongly adherent to Windows. The open architecture of first IBM PC did open the doors wide open for entrepreneurs to build additional hardware and software to rapidly improve its functionality. The resulting machines of today are the result of capitalist competition.

Interesting perspective on Linux though. I'll have to percolate that through my neural net to know how to respond. I am ambivalent because it is open architecture, like the first PCs, and its resemblance to my DB servers is comfortable. But then you point out that it is communist. Well, it is the result of a community effort, so I guess the word applies.

I always liked the expression 'an effervescent personality'.

"Spaceballs? Sxxx, there goes the planet!"

Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

Ludicrous Speed, GO!!