Greed started the problem of our language and laziness entrenched it, but snobbishness lionizes it. The history of English is a tale of vice… and that is a word, by the way, that we got from the French – even if we can’t blame them for the vices themselves.
I finally did pull it up, and I loved it. Great link, arnie.
You don't use a Commodore 64, right? (I am pretty gullible.) That was our first computer. I remember, before Word Perfect or Word, Shu found a word processing program in a magazine and typed it in so that we could word process. There were kinks, though. You had to type c and then /c for underlines, for example. Heaven forbid if you forgot the /c in a long document, which I did with my dissertation once. The entire draft was underlined.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kalleh,
The cognitive rehab program I had to work through after having had my brains knocked out only worked on a Commodore 64 at first, but after shit-for-brains Geoff got through with it it was a Commode 64.
I was perhaps a later adopter. My first computer was an IBM PC clone running Windows 3.1. Slightly earlier we'd been supplied at work with IBM PS/2s running PC-DOS.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
