Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: javascript Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 22:00:43 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: ANasIS7Js9OyLQwgloeBLQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:34007 On 3/16/2016 9:39 PM, Stefan Ram wrote: > =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= writes: >> On 3/16/2016 8:47 PM, Stefan Ram wrote: >>> =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= writes: >>>> On 3/16/2016 10:14 AM, Stefan Ram wrote: >>>>> What is the meaning of »x has nothing to do with y«? >>>> That they are distinct within their domain. >>> My dictionary says: >>> have to do with >>> 1. to be related to or connected with >>> 2. to be associated with; deal with >>> . So, the negation would be »not related«. >>> »Distinct« is much weaker than »not related<<, since >>> nearly /all/ things that are related still are distict. >> I think the terms may have slightly different meaning in general >> English and in a usenet discussion about what is on topic and what >> is not. > > en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_pleading I think you will find that an attempt to always interpret words in a technical usenet group based on general English meaning would frequently result in total nonsense. Arne