Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.lang.javascript > #13103

Re: call by reference

From Aatu Koskensilta <aatu.koskensilta@uta.fi>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: call by reference
Date 2012-03-28 18:06 +0300
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <87sjgsbw8q.fsf@uta.fi> (permalink)
References (5 earlier) <XnsA01FE2F36A698eejj99@194.109.133.133> <4ospm75d1vjq7vkvkevqmcbgi6u8t8ohch@4ax.com> <XnsA020D76F49F1eejj99@194.109.133.133> <jkuq0p$rq4$1@dont-email.me> <XnsA024AB4A5B436eejj99@194.109.133.133>

Show all headers | View raw

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

> it is US local slang, an Americanism perhaps.

  "Nope" is hardly slang. It's just informal.

> Earlier in this thread I was assured that it just ment "no", without
> any additional innuendo. So you contradict that assurance?

  There is no innuendo. Nope means no, but is used only in certain
conversational contexs, where it has the meaning "no, in fact that's not
true", "no, in actual fact that's not how it's done", "no, I don't
agree", and so on. That is, nope means just no, but can be used in this
wholly transparent meaning only in certain circumstances, where it
serves a useful conversational function. There's nothing particularly
noteworthy about this -- it's merely an example of a familiar and common
phenomenon in language. 

> Anyhow, for my part this is not specifically about "nope" or
> "snarking" but about using local slang that might be unnecessarily
> difficult to interprete by those NG-users who are less fluent in
> English.

  Sure, as I already said, it's best to avoid obscure local idioms,
slang and other turns of phrase that might cause confusion. But "nope"
is not "local slang" (and neither is "snarking" for that matter). "Nope"
is informal American English, readily understandable to pretty much
anyone.

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

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

Back to comp.lang.javascript | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

call by reference Andreas Bergmaier <andber93@web.de> - 2012-03-23 13:56 +0100
  Re: call by reference Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-23 07:10 -0700
  Re: call by reference "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-03-23 15:23 +0000
    Re: call by reference Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-23 09:28 -0700
      Re: call by reference "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-03-23 19:41 +0000
        Re: call by reference Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-03-23 13:43 -0700
          Re: call by reference "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-03-23 21:18 +0000
            Re: call by reference BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-23 15:23 -0700
            Re: call by reference Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-03-23 15:27 -0700
              Re: call by reference "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-03-24 00:19 +0000
                Re: call by reference Norman Peelman <npeelmandog@cfl.rr.com> - 2012-03-28 06:43 -0400
                Re: call by reference "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-03-28 14:50 +0000
                Re: call by reference Aatu Koskensilta <aatu.koskensilta@uta.fi> - 2012-03-28 18:06 +0300
                Re: call by reference "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-03-28 15:57 +0000
                Re: call by reference Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2012-03-28 23:22 +0200
                Re: call by reference "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-03-29 07:18 +0000
                Re: call by reference Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2012-03-29 13:34 +0200
                Re: call by reference David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-29 18:30 -0700
                Re: call by reference Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2012-04-03 00:09 +0200
                Re: call by reference David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-04-02 17:43 -0700
                Re: call by reference Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2012-03-30 00:49 -0800
                Re: call by reference Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-28 13:33 -0700
              Re: call by reference John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-24 11:34 +0000
            Re: call by reference Aatu Koskensilta <aatu.koskensilta@uta.fi> - 2012-03-26 22:46 +0300
              Re: call by reference Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-03-26 18:38 -0700
                Re: call by reference Aatu Koskensilta <aatu.koskensilta@uta.fi> - 2012-03-27 05:13 +0300
                Re: call by reference Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-03-27 18:31 +0200
                Re: call by reference Aatu Koskensilta <aatu.koskensilta@uta.fi> - 2012-03-27 21:31 +0300
                Re: call by reference Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-03-27 21:03 +0200
                Re: call by reference "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2012-04-10 22:03 -0700
        Re: call by reference Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-25 07:34 -0700
          Re: call by reference "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-03-25 15:53 +0000
    Re: call by reference Asen Bozhilov <asen.bozhilov@gmail.com> - 2012-03-27 05:15 -0700
  Re: call by reference BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-23 13:03 -0700
  Re: call by reference Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-03-23 23:02 +0100
    Re: call by reference John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-24 11:40 +0000

csiph-web