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Re: Stepping down and moving on
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On 19/11/16 00:14, Francisco Vila wrote:
> 2016-11-18 18:27 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>> > Francisco Vila <address@hidden> writes:
>> >
>>> >> David: I don't know what to say. I am very grateful to you for your
>>> >> huge, unvaluable work and I wish you luck.
>> >
>> > In spite of the respectively English and Latin prefixes having the same
>> > formal meaning, the meaning of the resulting composites "unvaluable" and
>> > "invaluable" is surprisingly different. I will assume that you were
>> > intending the latter. Programmer bashing is rarely seen on this list,
>> > recent exceptions notwithstanding.
> :-) Sorry for my sh**ty English.
>
Don't worry :-) Foreigners often speak better English than the natives,
and your grasp of English puts most of us to shame over our abilities
with (any) other languages.
Cheers,
Wol
- Re: Stepping down and moving on, (continued)
- Re: Stepping down and moving on, David Sumbler, 2016/11/14
- Re: Stepping down and moving on, Graham King, 2016/11/17
- Re: Stepping down and moving on, Simon Albrecht, 2016/11/18
- Re: Stepping down and moving on, Francisco Vila, 2016/11/18
- Re: Stepping down and moving on, Karlin High, 2016/11/18
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