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Posted by Bone Ur on 11/04/07 17:50
Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:11:29
GMT Jukka K. Korpela scribed:
> Scripsit Bone Ur:
>
>> Well, yes, all that is very precise,
>
> And you apparently failed to understand it, since by Usenet
> conventions, lack of comprehensive reading is indicated by the use of
> comprehensive quotation.
Is there a reference for this "convention" or do you just have an
inherited prejudice for comprehensive quoatation?
>> but I was using the English word
>> "inherit" to mean "get",
>
> That was foolish. Check your English dictionary, and you will get (not
> inherit) some understanding in this matter.
It may have been imperfect but was hardly foolish in the realistic sense
of the word. Of course, some could make it _seem_ foolish by blathering
unbecomingly in an adult environment.
> When you use words that are CSS terms in a specifically CSS context,
> you should use them in their CSS meanings.
Why? If a word has a paramount English meaning, can not that override a
subordinate, more-specific context? I'll agree that using "inherit" as I
did may have been technically (from a css perspective) awkward, but not
prohibitively so.
>> I can see how it might be confusing to an expert,
>
> No, experts immediately see that _you_ are confused, but the vast
> majority will be confused by your incorrect explanation.
Well, I'm not confused and my explanation isn't or wasn't incorrect.
However, you make a good case for how easily experts can be confused.
>> but I
>> believed the meaning to be clearer to the OP as I framed it.
>
> If you meant "get", surely "get" would have been clearer than
> "inherit".
True. Especially to one knowing English as a second language (however
well).
The truth is that you tried to use CSS jargon and failed.
That's patently untrue. The truth is that you fail to understand all the
nuances of the more fundamental language used to convey the information.
--
Bone Ur
When I was a young man I learned that having sex with a woman is fun
until you either get caught or married.
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