Stop Microsoft
Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: Kintaro on 1 July 2005, 10:11
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I agree!! For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all. Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli. Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld. -Mark Twain
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I can read all that, except "xrewawt."
EDIT: Finished interpreting it (had to go back to some old AOLspeek logs).
I agree!! For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replaced either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only case in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same consonant, while Year 3 might well abolish "y" replacing it with "i" and Year 4 might fix the "g/j" anomaly once and for all. Generally, then, the improvement would continue year by year with Year 5 doing away with useless double consonants, and Years 6-12 or so modifying vowels and the remaining voiced and unvoiced consonants. By Year 15 or so, it would finally be possible to make use of the redundant letters "c", "y" and "x" -- by now just a memory in the minds of old dodderers -- to replace "ch", "sh", and "th" respectively. Finally, then, after some 20 years of orthographical reform, we would have a logical, coherent spelling in use throughout the English-speaking world.
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do you even know what you are talking about?
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he _stole_ that QUOTE from slashdot...
there was an article yesterday about 'hacker-types' and poor spelling/grammer.
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How do you steal a quote when you attribute it to its original author?
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How do you steal a quote when you attribute it to its original author?
Break the display case and run like hell. :D
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CISCO must have thought the letter c was useless too.
In their old IOS version, you needed to quote the motd message in c instead of #, which is now the case in the new IOS version, like so:
Router(config)# banner exec c
Enter TEXT message. End with the character 'c'.
If you want aCCess, ask the sysop with aCne.c
If you type the letter c in your motd, it's presumed to be the end of the motd. The people from CISCO are idiots.
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CISCO must have thought the letter c was useless too.
In their old IOS version, you needed to quote the motd message in c instead of #, which is now the case in the new IOS version, like so:
Router(config)# banner exec c
Enter TEXT message. End with the character 'c'.
If you want aCCess, ask the sysop with aCne.c
If you type the letter c in your motd, it's presumed to be the end of the motd. The people from CISCO are idiots.
You're joking, right?
The syntax of that command is shorthand, meaning: set the banner to execute the string ended in c upon successful bootstrap.
You could substitute any other ASCII character for the single char c above and make the same claim.
Now, aren't the people from CISCO geniuses for making an IOS that recognises English Shorthand? :cool:
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Orethrius makes me wish I was stoned.
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You're joking, right?
The syntax of that command is shorthand, meaning: set the banner to execute the string ended in c upon successful bootstrap.
You could substitute any other ASCII character for the single char c above and make the same claim.
Now, aren't the people from CISCO geniuses for making an IOS that recognises English Shorthand? :cool:
Gee, I guess that post could make sense to me if it wasn't so vague.