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Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:53:18 +0200
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Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> * David Kastrup (2008-07-15) writes:
>
>> And so on.  Really, the Debian policy is not broken.  It is just that
>> no-one, including Emacs and XEmacs itself, does not really appreciate
>> it.
>
> I'm assuming this is the dreaded Bavarian double negation.

Guilty, your honor.  However, let's not call it Bavarian.  It is pretty
much an element of any dialect.  How about the Yiddish negative?  "Keyn
mensh, un keyn Emacs un XEmacs nisht, ton keyn froydnshprung nisht."
Something like that.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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