Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4a.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 0.004 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'english.': 0.04; 'essentially': 0.04; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject: [': 0.09; 'subject:language': 0.09; 'language,': 0.12; 'assume': 0.14; 'language.': 0.14; 'ball.': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'subject: \n ': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'all,': 0.19; 'manual': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; '---': 0.24; 'speakers': 0.26; 'gets': 0.27; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply- To:1': 0.27; 'am,': 0.29; "d'aprano": 0.31; 'dropped': 0.31; 'steven': 0.31; 'whom': 0.33; 'subject:the': 0.34; 'but': 0.35; 'edge': 0.36; 'error.': 0.37; 'half': 0.37; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'unable': 0.39; 'either': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'free': 0.61; 'viruses': 0.61; 'back': 0.62; 'protection': 0.63; 'field': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'world': 0.66; 'antivirus': 0.68; 'population': 0.68; 'usa': 0.69; 'safe': 0.72; 'sport': 0.74; 'million': 0.74; 'subject:this': 0.83; 'played': 0.84; 'subject:OFF': 0.95 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC Spanish in the USA [was Re: Explanation of this Python language feature?] Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 09:31:00 +0100 References: <9daf0806-02de-4447-964c-c8f8953c23e5@googlegroups.com> <87ior3w740.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <5334c38e$0$29994$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <53364327$0$29994$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <53365F55.2040302@gmail.com> <5337ba48$0$29994$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <5337f383$0$29994$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-92-24-217-166.ppp.as43234.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 140331-0, 31/03/2014), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean 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: 28 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1396254675 news.xs4all.nl 2835 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:47065 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:69415 On 31/03/2014 05:57, Mark H Harris wrote: > On 3/30/14 5:35 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> Approximately 5% of the US population either do not speak English at all, >> or speak it poorly. That includes approximately half a million ASL >> speakers (American Sign Language, which is not a manual representation of >> English but an independent language in it's own right), the majority of >> whom are unable to speak or understand spoken English. > > Steven, you have trolled us over to the left edge of outer left field > all the way back at the fence, dude, seriously--- and then you dropped > the ball. Geeeze... error. > Is it safe to assume that's a reference from a sport that essentially only gets played in the USA so you have a World Series? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com