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Re: About /dev/sr impatience with automatic tray loading

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On Tuesday 11 December 2018 12:31:46 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.

Or in legal here in the US, where "may" tends to mean never for 
personal/political reasons on the part of the county official in charge 
and "shall" says will without a personal choice in the matter. We only 
changed one word in a law from may to shall, 20+ years ago which the 
same statewide. That was huge.


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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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