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MRAB
Sep 8, 2010, 3:30:34 PM9/8/10
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On 08/09/2010 19:07, Georg Brandl wrote:
> Thus spake the Lord: Thou shalt indent with four spaces. No more, no
> less. Four shall be the number of spaces thou shalt indent, and the
> number of thy indenting shall be four. Eight shalt thou not indent,
> nor either indent thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to four.
> Tabs are right out.
>
FYI, that should be "thine indenting".
> Thus spake the Lord: Thou shalt indent with four spaces. No more, no
> less. Four shall be the number of spaces thou shalt indent, and the
> number of thy indenting shall be four. Eight shalt thou not indent,
> nor either indent thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to four.
> Tabs are right out.
>
FYI, that should be "thine indenting".
"My/thy" before a consonant, "mine/thine" before a vowel. Compare with
"a/an", which we still do.
Mark Lawrence
Sep 9, 2010, 12:07:14 PM9/9/10
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Hopefully correct, but certainly better than you knowledge of Spanish :)
Cheers.
Mark Lawrence.
MRAB
Sep 9, 2010, 12:26:27 PM9/9/10
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On 09/09/2010 17:07, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 08/09/2010 20:30, MRAB wrote:
>> On 08/09/2010 19:07, Georg Brandl wrote:
>>> Thus spake the Lord: Thou shalt indent with four spaces. No more, no
>>> less. Four shall be the number of spaces thou shalt indent, and the
>>> number of thy indenting shall be four. Eight shalt thou not indent,
>>> nor either indent thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to four.
>>> Tabs are right out.
>>>
>> FYI, that should be "thine indenting".
>>
>> "My/thy" before a consonant, "mine/thine" before a vowel. Compare with
>> "a/an", which we still do.
> X-Antispam: NO; Spamcatcher 6.0.4. Score 1> On 08/09/2010 20:30, MRAB wrote:
>> On 08/09/2010 19:07, Georg Brandl wrote:
>>> Thus spake the Lord: Thou shalt indent with four spaces. No more, no
>>> less. Four shall be the number of spaces thou shalt indent, and the
>>> number of thy indenting shall be four. Eight shalt thou not indent,
>>> nor either indent thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to four.
>>> Tabs are right out.
>>>
>> FYI, that should be "thine indenting".
>>
>> "My/thy" before a consonant, "mine/thine" before a vowel. Compare with
>> "a/an", which we still do.
>
> Hopefully correct, but certainly better than you knowledge of Spanish :)
>
Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Sep 10, 2010, 6:23:47 PM9/10/10
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In message <mailman.580.12839742...@python.org>, MRAB
wrote:
wrote:
The funny thing is, that’s technically “Modern English”...
Thomas Jollans
Sep 11, 2010, 12:28:07 PM9/11/10
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On Saturday 11 September 2010, it occurred to Lawrence D'Oliveiro to exclaim:
... and it's regularly used in a number of best-selling books.
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