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Re: [Groff] Inappropriate info page!


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [Groff] Inappropriate info page!
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 07:17:05 +0100 (CET)

>> Oh.  I would have never expected that Larry Kollar's satirical
>> remark would be taken literally.  Well, today people probably need
>> `humour on/off' signs...  Note that Larry is from the US, as far as
>> I know :-)
> 
> I am, but I honestly think it was there when I rewrote the info doc,
> and I shrugged and let it stand.

OK, then it was written by another native US citizen, namely Trent
A. Fisher :-)

> It’s not the kind of wording I’d have used in any case.  I’d have
> said “outmoded” instead of “antiquated,” and would have probably
> made a comment about crappy beer instead of cheap computers, which
> (thanks to the surge of microbreweries) would be rather dated
> nowadays.

:-)


    Werner

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