Re: Open Letter to Jim Breen

From: Don Kirkman (spambuster_at_covad.net)
Date: 01/12/05 

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:41:27 -0800

It seems to me I heard somewhere that necoandjeff wrote in article
<zs6Fd.9716$wZ2.2618@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>:

>Sean wrote:
>> Dan Rempel wrote:

>>> napurenon wrote:

>>>> Paul Blay wrote:

>>>>> "Tad Perry" wrote ...

>>>>>> This open letter is to commend you on your selfless work and
>>>>>> wonderful labor
>>>>>> of love. Few people would put so much effort into the sharing of
>>>>>> such information without attempting to make a profit. It's a
>>>>>> great thing you've
>>>>>> done, and continue doing, and I am very fortunate and pleased to
>>>>>> have this
>>>>>> tool to use.

>>>>> A hearty 'Me too' from me. Personally I'm most impressed by his
>>>>> 'stick to it ness'.
>>>>> I'm a butterfly when it comes to stuff I do with Japanese (well,
>>>>> excepting watching
>>>>> too much anime - but I don't think that really counts ;-).

>>>> I too, would like to express my thanks to Jim. EDICT, the Tanaka
>>>> corpus, Monash Nihongo FTP Archive, and Jim's Japanese Page have
>>>> helped me immensely over the years, and I expect they will go on
>>>> helping me in the future.
>>>> I just hope I can now give a little back by suggesting new words for
>>>> EDICT, and helping weed out the remaining errors in the Tanaka
>>>> corpus.

>>> Yup, me too: EDICT, and the various offshoots are one of the great
>>> resources of the internet. Thanks Jim.

>> Hell, me too.

>This has reached that critical mass stage where people who remain silent
>will be questioned as being ungrateful (which I certainly am not.) THANKS
>JIM. YOU DA MAN!!! And I promise to try and contribute more than I have in
>the past.

Now that's a convincing statement! However, always the iconoclast I'll
thank Jim for his erudite, humorous, and world-wise contributions to
this group. And I'll think of him when I use EDICT. 

-- 
Don
Old age is when you start saying "I wish I knew now what I knew then."