From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2006-09-23T06:15:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Rejected Ruby book ideas by O'Reilly

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On 9/22/06, William Crawford <wccrawford@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Robert Dober wrote:
> > A question to all native speakers,
> > is there a big difference  (semantically, that word  is 4 U Devin :))
> > between thread & threat, sounds all alike to me ;)
>
> I hope you meant to be humorous with that, because ... well, it's
> hilarious.
>
> A 'thread' is a piece of string OR a conversation between multiple
> people on a forum or list.
>
> A 'threat' is when someone tells someone else they are going to hurt
> them.
>
> Now, it's humorous because quite often in heated discussions...  The
> majority of the thread is threats :D
>
> No offense intended if you didn't mean to be funny...  But it was.
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> I am on a bad trip man, and I promised to pipe down, but who can resist t=
o
acclamation, it is much more funny than you might think for us Austrians we
*really* can hardly distinguish between b/p d/t g/k, so it is *almost* the
same for us.
Of course I was kidding, I always am...
Cheers
Robert


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