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Re: Orphaning package
- From: Alan Cox <alan redhat com>
- To: Development discussions related to Fedora <fedora-devel-list redhat com>
- Subject: Re: Orphaning package
- Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:50:11 -0400
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:27:27PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> way to Tower Bridge?" -- "[When I was in England] In the past, I would
> have taken a cab. *But* nowadays it's faster to take a bus." Without
> the "But..." sentence, what would the first sentence imply?
It may imply someone familiar with a formal "correct" usage of the language.
"But" links phrases so cannot (in normal usage) correctly start a sentence -
not that anyone actually cares about this rule nowdays ;)
Alan (pedant)
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