From: Dominik Honnef <dominikho@...>
Date: 2009-08-20T22:54:26+09:00
Subject: Re: start_with? Does someone need a grammar lesson?

Todd Benson <caduceass@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Todd Benson<caduceass@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Nah, it's a common artifact of moving east asian grammar to western.
>> Besides that, you shouldn't try to reinvent by changing the wheel.
>> People obviously think that proper would be "a single object" "starts
>> with".  But if you think of that simple object for what it is, a bunch
>> of bytes, than the discrepancy goes away.  It's plural vs. singular.
>> Don't really care.
>
> I didn't give an example.  My bad...
>
> things_that_are_important_to_me starts with "start"
>
> Todd

I honestly rather like to explain this "artifact" by the fact what it
is. A message sent to a receiver. You ask a receiver about its state,
not the world around it. So "do you" actually makes more sense than
asian/western grammar as an explanation, imho.

-- 
Dominik Honnef
dominikho@gmx.net