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Re: Javascript Object Extensions Updated

From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Javascript Object Extensions Updated
Date 2016-01-10 01:38 +0000
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"Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> writes:

> Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote on 09 Jan 2016 in 
> comp.lang.javascript:
>
>> "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> writes:
>> 
>>> Aleksandro <aleksandro@gmx.com> wrote on 09 Jan 2016 in
>>> comp.lang.javascript: 
>>>
>>>> On 09/01/16 13:22, Evertjan. wrote:
>>>>> Aleksandro wrote on 09 Jan 2016 in comp.lang.javascript: 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'd say that blog post lacks way too many examples
>>>>> [..] to be called anything close to documentation
>>>>> 
>>>>> How can something "lack too many"?
>>>> 
>>>> Too many more are needed, makes sense?
>>>
>>> No.
>>>
>>> Would you perhaps mean "never enough"?
>> 
>> Aleksandro phrase looks fine to me.  It's informal and colloquial
>> English but idiomatic and clear (to me of course -- obviously not to
>> all).  It's quite a common turn of phrase.
>
> So "lack too many" means "never enough"?

No, not to me.  I can't put it into the sentence and get anything that
makes the same sense to me.  The closest I can get is "that blog post
never has enough examples...", but "never" needs a plurality or range,
more like "those blog posts never have enough examples..." or maybe, at
a pinch, "that post, from start to finish, never has enough
examples...".

> Ofcourse I can guess what Alexandro means,
> but playing the devils advocate: 
> what is so clear about it?

I don't know.  I know it is clear (to me) but not what makes it so.  I
am not a linguist.

> I don't like this guessing in a conversation,
> I prefer asking.

Absolutely.  Best to ask if you are unsure.  I'm just adding a data
point -- for at least one native speaker, the meaning was clear.

-- 
Ben.

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    Re: Javascript Object Extensions Updated Aleksandro <aleksandro@gmx.com> - 2016-01-07 21:37 -0300
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        Re: Javascript Object Extensions Updated Aleksandro <aleksandro@gmx.com> - 2016-01-09 12:27 -0300
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            Re: Javascript Object Extensions Updated Aleksandro <aleksandro@gmx.com> - 2016-01-09 13:31 -0300
            Re: Javascript Object Extensions Updated Aleksandro <aleksandro@gmx.com> - 2016-01-09 13:31 -0300
              Re: Javascript Object Extensions Updated "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-01-09 22:35 +0100
                Re: Javascript Object Extensions Updated Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-01-09 21:49 +0000
                Re: Javascript Object Extensions Updated Aleksandro <aleksandro@gmx.com> - 2016-01-09 19:06 -0300
                Re: Javascript Object Extensions Updated "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-01-09 23:21 +0100
                Re: Javascript Object Extensions Updated Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-01-10 01:38 +0000
                Re: Javascript Object Extensions Updated "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-01-10 11:26 +0100
                Re: Javascript Object Extensions Updated Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-01-10 13:32 +0100
                Re: Javascript Object Extensions Updated "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-01-10 20:04 +0100
                Re: Javascript Object Extensions Updated Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-01-10 20:39 +0100
                Re: Javascript Object Extensions Updated Aleksandro <aleksandro@gmx.com> - 2016-01-10 17:09 -0300
          Re: Javascript Object Extensions Updated Simon Blackwell <syblackwell@anywhichway.com> - 2016-01-09 14:01 -0800
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