Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.mixmin.net!rt.uk.eu.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.016 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'context': 0.07; 'naturally': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'sentence': 0.09; 'convey': 0.16; 'dots': 0.16; 'example)': 0.16; 'language?': 0.16; 'maternal': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'trying': 0.19; 'thoughts': 0.19; '>>>': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'script': 0.25; 'order.': 0.26; 'tables': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'am,': 0.29; 'about.': 0.31; 'bunch': 0.31; 'complete,': 0.31; 'consequence': 0.31; 'explained': 0.31; 'guess': 0.33; 'subject:time': 0.33; "can't": 0.35; 'doubt': 0.36; 'done': 0.36; 'clear': 0.37; 'to:addr:python- list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'explain': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'enough': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'even': 0.60; 'skip:u 10': 0.60; 'tell': 0.60; "you're": 0.61; "you've": 0.63; 'kind': 0.63; 'talking': 0.65; 'capable': 0.67; 'natural': 0.68; 'exceed': 0.68; 'subject:First': 0.74; 'coherent': 0.84; 'dias': 0.84; 'carlos': 0.91; 'edwards': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Ned Batchelder Subject: Re: First time I looked at Python was(...) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:07:24 -0400 References: <5396ECF4.4070102@premium-sponsor.com> <854mzt0xud.fsf@benfinney.id.au> <53970F2D.1040200@premium-sponsor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 18.189.88.71 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 In-Reply-To: <53970F2D.1040200@premium-sponsor.com> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 48 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1402409261 news.xs4all.nl 2857 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:59990 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:73096 On 6/10/14 9:59 AM, Carlos Anselmo Dias wrote: > > On 06/10/2014 02:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2014-06-10, Carlos Anselmo Dias wrote: >> >>> English is not my maternal language ... >> And stringing together a bunch of phrases with elipses without every >> completing a sentence is the way things are done in your native >> language? >> >> I doubt it. >> > > Hi ... > > Those are my phrases ... somehow describe the projects(briefly) ... I > even provided you/people(...) one script to help exceed 'the freeze' of > thinking about n millions of tables or billions of files(for example) > ... I even explained the context ... > > If that's not enough ... for those capable I guess it's enough to start > the necessary will to do it ... > > If you want me to place phrases without elipses and completing one > sentence, 'I'm not there' ... > > When you talk naturally about things(and that kind of things) sentences > and elipses are natural , are one consequence of your thoughts ... you > just adapt your thoughts to people capable of understading, those who > are not capable, you avoid the issues ... > > (...) > > Best regards, > Carlos > Carlos, you've been told by a number of people that we don't know what you are talking about. Dots don't convey any meaning. Write complete, clear sentences that explain what you want. I don't know what you are trying to accomplish here. I can tell you what you are accomplishing: you're convincing a number of people that you can't put your thoughts into coherent order. -- Ned Batchelder, http://nedbatchelder.com