A Linux USB keyboard/mouse question

cragos at gmail.com cragos at gmail.com
Sat Sep 22 20:47:39 CDT 2007


Oi.

Or I was using a colloquial expression that is not common in my
distant home country of Illinois?

Bigot. Bet you're voting Hilary too.

/me ducks

On 9/22/07, Monty J. Harder <mjharder at gmail.com> wrote:
> Language/Logic Nazi Alert!  As people smart enough to make computers work
> well, we have an obligation to not perpetuate stupid expressions.
>
> On 9/22/07, cragos at gmail.com <cragos at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Actually, even that's not normally necessary. I've used some old Super
> > 7 motherboards that required that be enabled to have the BIOS respond
> > to the keyboard, but Linux could care less - it Just Worked.
>
> Please don't use the phrase "could care less".  Logically, if it could care
> less, then it must care some.  And that's probably not what you're trying to
> say.
>
> The phrase you're looking for is "couldn't care less", which is itself a
> cliche, which may explain why people have felt the need to rework it.  If
> you want to anthropomorphize the Linux kernel in this manner, simply say
> "Linux doesn't care".
>
> Don't say someone is "head over heels" in love, because you aren't saying
> anything special in noting that someone's head is over his heels.  Perhaps
> "heels over head" evokes imagery too graphic for polite conversation; it
> doesn't explain this illogical expression.
>
> While I'm at it,
> a slash leans forward /
> a BACKslash leans back \
> It is not just a formal name for 'slash'. There are NO backslashes in
> Uniform Resource Locators/Identifiers.
>
> The name for the little star * is "asterisk", (literally meaning "little
> star") which is pronounced /as' tǝr isk/, not /as' tǝr ik/  or /as' tǝr
> iks/.
> A colon is one dot above another dot :
> A semi-colon is a dot above a comma ;
>
> AND STAY OFF MY LAWN!
>


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