Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder.erje.net!usenet.ukfsn.org!not-for-mail
From: Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: OT language stuff (was Re: Class.forName().newInstance() vs new)
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:52:55 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: UK Free Software Network
Lines: 16
Message-ID: <itobv7$j1m$2@localhost.localdomain>
References: <it07on$ilc$1@speranza.aioe.org> <a4567ca3-6268-41e7-8293-b6f9121c2765@y7g2000prk.googlegroups.com> <itdo3m02lcd@news2.newsguy.com> <e43ff9cb-73a9-4d24-8dae-4b0e7ec6d4d1@s41g2000prb.googlegroups.com> <969koeFjduU4@mid.individual.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.45.235.129
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Trace: localhost.localdomain 1308603175 19510 84.45.235.129 (20 Jun 2011 20:52:55 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@localhost.localdomain
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:52:55 +0000 (UTC)
User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies)
Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5434

On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:18:39 +0000, blmblm@myrealbox.com wrote:

> Oh, but some people do (insist .... ) -- there's been a recent thread in
> comp.lang.c in which a few speakers of the non-Indian Englishes have
> tried to object to use of "doubt" to mean "question".  I doubt they'll
> succeed, but -- <shrug>.
>
Indian English is still heavily influenced by Victorian English, 
especially their conversational forms. Along with railways and the postal 
system, Victorian english is one of the main legacies of the Raj.
 

-- 
martin@   | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org       |