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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!hermes.oc.com!news.kei.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!gatech!news.byu.edu!cwis.isu.edu!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Call for 386BSD Rel.1.0 SIG (Special Interest Group) Date: 30 Aug 1994 06:54:35 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 38 Message-ID: <33ul3b$bb3@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <1994Aug25.064656.3051@cs.brown.edu> <33k8ac$1df@u.cc.utah.edu> <1994Aug26.173252.26504@cs.brown.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <1994Aug26.173252.26504@cs.brown.edu> mhw@cs.brown.edu (Mark Weaver) writes: ] 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! ] > -- re-li-ably \-ble^-\ adv Note: alternate form. Unless that's supposed to be "relible"... 8-). Of course it occurs to me that it could also be intended as "reliblely". As in "Reliblely's Believe It Or Not!"... Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.