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Re: Learning "my emacs" from the start
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Florian v. Savigny |
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Re: Learning "my emacs" from the start |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Apr 2014 10:26:00 +0200 |
> From: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 16:50:15 +0200
>
> It's an expression that alliterates on the "p" sound, that fits in with
> the party analogy (another "p" word), and is somewhat tasteless but not
> entirely vulgar (like some other "p" words you can probably imagine).
I did understand it is apparently a (n extended) metaphor that fits in
with the "party" (even if I did not notice the alliteration) but I am
still too dumb to understand WHAT you mean by it. I would definitely
like to.
> Personally (another "p" word), i have done my part (and another!):
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2013-11/msg00360.html>
> since 2008, but hope to get back to jamming once gnugo.el bumps version.
I enjoyed your linguistic creativity there (which for me personally is
a particularly nice part of the whole GNU experience), but I would,
honestly, be happy if you tried to be understandable to more people
than just the initiated. "To jam" could, as far as I have been able to
determine (and I have checked general dictionaries, the New Hacker's
dictionary, and the Urban Dictionary), have a vast range of meanings,
starting from "to relax" and ending with the implausible (and
unmentionable). Determining that took me about 8 minutes, and I do not
know if the remark was even important enough.
--
Florian von Savigny
Melanchthonstr. 41
33615 Bielefeld
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