From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2007-11-04T04:27:40+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: JRuby performance questions answered

On 11/3/07, Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@acm.org> wrote:
> I had to repeat it a few times before I convinced myself that this is how
> things should work, but the interpretation as a juxtaposition is very
> attractive. Maybe I'm drawn to it because my mother tongue is closer to Latin?
>
> A skilled writer could use the ambiguity for very effective double-entendres.
>
> [1] I had to look it up. In Spanish, French and German the idiom is "neither
> meat nor fish" (actually, "neither fish nor meat" in German; I wonder why).

The switching of nouns may have more to do with culture than language roots.

I couldn't resist an attempt at lolcat...

Ther be JRuby, XRuby, IronRuby, Ruby.NET, and no s'port continue stufs now.

Latin rooted languages allow a lot of latitude, certainly, and I think
if they lost that latitude, they would make a lot of poets bored, as
you suggested.

I could have used "but" instead of "and" in that last sentence and
still convey the same meaning, but it might have changed the intent if
your vernacular idioms differ from mine.

Todd