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| From | Tony van der Hoff <lists@vanderhoff.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: About /dev/sr impatience with automatic tray loading |
| Date | 2018-12-11 18:50 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <x3Ukq-2Is-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On 11/12/18 17:31, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 06:22:56PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >> Dan Ritter wrote: >>> The English use it more than Americans do. >> >> In school it was a big deal to distinguish "will" and "shall". >> (I was very eager to forget the exact rules when nobody cared any more.) > > Americans (at least in my part of the country) never use "shall" at > all. To us, it simply sounds archaic. We'd expect it in the King James > Bible, or in certain kinds of fantasy literature. > Not the bible, but pretty close: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:tony@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |
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About /dev/sr impatience with automatic tray loading "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-12-10 15:00 +0100
Re: About /dev/sr impatience with automatic tray loading Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-12-10 16:00 +0100
Re: About /dev/sr impatience with automatic tray loading "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-12-10 18:50 +0100
Re: About /dev/sr impatience with automatic tray loading Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-12-10 20:00 +0100
Re: About /dev/sr impatience with automatic tray loading "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-12-10 21:10 +0100
Re: About /dev/sr impatience with automatic tray loading Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-12-11 01:20 +0100
Re: About /dev/sr impatience with automatic tray loading "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-12-11 12:40 +0100
Re: About /dev/sr impatience with automatic tray loading Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-12-11 18:00 +0100
Re: About /dev/sr impatience with automatic tray loading "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-12-11 18:30 +0100
Re: About /dev/sr impatience with automatic tray loading Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-12-11 18:40 +0100
Re: About /dev/sr impatience with automatic tray loading Tony van der Hoff <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2018-12-11 18:50 +0100
Re: About /dev/sr impatience with automatic tray loading John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-12-11 20:50 +0100
Re: About /dev/sr impatience with automatic tray loading Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-12-11 20:30 +0100
Re: About /dev/sr impatience with automatic tray loading mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-12-11 13:40 +0100
Re: About /dev/sr impatience with automatic tray loading Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-12-11 15:50 +0100
Re: About /dev/sr impatience with automatic tray loading Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2018-12-12 01:10 +0100
Re: About /dev/sr impatience with automatic tray loading Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-12-12 12:30 +0100
Re: About /dev/sr impatience with automatic tray loading David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-12-12 21:20 +0100
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