Grub config file editing

[Mike McCarty]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 2/23/06, Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>>Thumbs are digits, but they are not fingers. Toes are also
>>digits. But if you ask someone "How many fingers do you have?",
>>the answer is ten. In aggregate, thumbs are fingers, but
>>individually, they are not. Some aspects of English are pretty
>>confusing. Like to discuss uniplurals? Or words which have
>>two different forms for the plural, but with different meanings?
>>How about verbs which have different conjugations depending
>>on what the object of the action is? How about words which
>>are their own antonyms? (That's one of my favorite categories.)
>>
>>
>>>By the way, if you hold one hand in front of the other, you can hold
>>>up ten fingers with only eight gaps between them!
>>
>>Heck, I can hold up my fingers with *no* gaps between them! Beat that!
>>
>>Mike
> 
> 
> I doubt that you can do it with no gaps. I though about it, but there
> will be microscopic gaps that you could not avoid. I figured that in a
> discussion with Mike McCarty, I had better be as accurate as possible.
> 
> So, the idea that the thumb is not a finger is specific to the English
> language. Indeed, in Hebrew it is a finger- as are the toes! So while
> English speakers have 8 fingers, Hebrew speakers have 20.
> 
> 
>>How about words which are their own antonyms?
>>
> 
> 
> I'd love to see some examples. I love word games- and this may be
> valuable. In an attempt to keep this On Topic, are there any computer
> (or linux) related ones?

Pseudo-on-topic "boot" is almost its own antonym.
As in "boot that computer" can mean to start it up, or
throw it away.

Mike
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