Re: OT - to the linguists among us ... English as a second language would have trouble and confusion with all these ... But then that really isn't correct either since American...sex to refer to men and women and started using gender? ... (rec.crafts.textiles.quilting)
Re: OT - Role playing fantasies ... course, too, to prevent any further confusion or problems. ... I have always posted under either Andrea or Andrea2. ... there are two computers here & we refer to them as the Desktop and the ... Desktop, and hers, the Laptop, but we each use either computer at times. ... (alt.support.diabetes)
Re: Whats a Gigabyte? ... Some of us prefer to refer to a thousand ...trouble with "billion" is that it can mean either a thousand million or a ... still lead to confusion.... 'misled on storage capacity'... (uk.comp.homebuilt)
Re: Reference to derived type element by index? ...Gary Scott wrote: ... have been unclear, as this is not the solution to my problem. ... The problem reduces to the following: I don't know explicitly which variable (I incorrectly referred to this variable as an element previously, hence the confusion) I want to update, so I can't say ... No you can't alias an index with the formally defined components and have value 1 refer to radius and value 2 refer to x. ... (comp.lang.fortran)
Re: OT: On the fate of classical music ... myself confused when people refer to Bach as "classical" music. ... and to squelch the confusion that runs rampant through our ... conservatories and guitar studios, I suggest we all adopt the phrase ... (rec.music.classical.guitar)