Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Herb, Nice meeting you yesterday... :) About your post about inane threads lasting forever. Well... there seem to be an abundance of folks out there with nothing to do. They obviously don't take photographs, they just chatter on the Internet. And will argue about anything. The folks at KSP liked meeting you. Next time we'll have lunch and talk more. Jim At 04:10 PM 8/29/01 -0700, Herbert & Lee Kanner wrote: >It's interesting the way some threads take off and have a life of their own. > >A few months ago, I violated all the rules of good behavior on the >rec.photo.equipment.35mm newsgroup by criticizing spelling: I just got fed >up at seeing "lense." So, my good natured protest was answered by: "Yank, >idiot. That's how it's spelled in the UK. I've been spelling it that way >for 50 years." So, I responded stating that the Compact Oxford English >Dictionary did not allow that spelling. Answer: "That's a very abridged >dictionary." I came back at the guy with a reference to the full >multi-volume OED, which had only one definition for "lense," namely "to >make lean," as in meat. > >A month later, the damn thread was still going strong; it had the same >title, but had wandered off into some sort of a political discussion, >totally off topic. I sent in a plaintive follow-up, saying that I had >started the thread and wished that it would die. > >Herb >-- >Herbert Kanner >kanner@acm.org >650-326-8204