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From: mhw@cs.brown.edu (Mark Weaver)
Subject: Re: Call for 386BSD Rel.1.0 SIG (Special Interest Group)
Message-ID: <1994Aug26.173252.26504@cs.brown.edu>
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References: <1994Aug23.170100.7763@system9.unisys.com> <jmonroyCv240o.22n@netcom.com> <1994Aug25.064656.3051@cs.brown.edu> <33k8ac$1df@u.cc.utah.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 17:32:52 GMT
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In article <33k8ac$1df@u.cc.utah.edu>,
Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote:
>Actually, as much as I hate defending Jesus... I am a dictionary thumper.
>
> 1re-li-able \ri-'l[0xF5]^--e-bel\ adj
> (1569)
> 1: suitable or fit to be relied on: DEPENDABLE
> 2: giving the same result on successive trials
> -- re-li-able-ness n
> -- re-li-ably \-ble^-\ adv
>
> 2reliable n
> (1890)
> :one that is reliable
>
>
>Reliable is an adjective. You are right, Jesus is wrong.
>Reliable is an adverb. You are both wrong.
>Reliable is an noun. You are wrong and Jesus is right, providing
> he went to school in 1890.
Actually, by your own quote, reliable is not an adverb, reliably is!
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Jesus went to school in 1890, and the rest of us did in 1569. :-)
Mark "what am I DOING????" Weaver
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