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Re: call by reference

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"Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> writes:

> I don't think I want to follow your link about "snarky". It is just
> like "nope", see below, a word not to be used here because of local
> idiomatic implications.

  Come now, "snarky" is perfectly normal English and readily
understandable to a competent non-native speaker.

> "nope" is a clear example of a word to be avoided, because when it is no 
> different from "no", why use it, but for adding some extra perhaps 
> condescending, innuendo, that could mean "we the English natives know 
> better". 

  You're imagining things. It's of course a good idea to avoid obscure
local idioms, but "nope" is not in the least problematic in this
respect, and certainly does not imply any native speaker superiority in
ordinary usage. Your harping on this issue is merely bizarre, and if
you're genuinly worried about poor hapless non-natives with their
tenuous grasp on the intricacies of English, I suggest instead of these
peculiar tirades you work on your sentence construction.

-- 
Aatu Koskensilta (aatu.koskensilta@uta.fi)

"Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen."
  - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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Re: call by reference Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-24 18:13 -0700
  Re: call by reference "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-03-25 08:12 +0000
    Re: call by reference Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-25 07:00 -0700
      Re: call by reference John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-26 10:56 +0100
    Re: call by reference Aatu Koskensilta <aatu.koskensilta@uta.fi> - 2012-03-26 23:04 +0300
      Re: call by reference Dr J R Stockton <reply1213@merlyn.demon.co.uk.not.invalid> - 2012-03-27 18:20 +0100
        Re: call by reference Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-03-27 16:28 -0700
          Re: call by reference "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-03-28 08:20 +0000
    Re: call by reference Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2012-03-26 21:31 -0800
      Re: call by reference "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-03-27 07:25 +0000

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