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Re: Javascript Object Extensions Updated

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Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote on 10 Jan 2016 in 
comp.lang.javascript:

> "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...".

That was what I was asking, "never enough".

Even so "lack too many" is not a construction I would expect even for that.


> 
>> 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.

I used to be a native speaker, long ago.

Eh, this sounds strange to me too, can one lose such nativity?

Is such nativity proof of language skill, 
or is the word native naively used here 
for primary language or primary local dialect perhaps?

Let's concentrate on the somewhat better defined languages like Javascript.


-- 
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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                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
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