From: Simon Strandgaard <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>
Date: 2003-06-29T17:48:33+09:00
Subject: Re: druby vs CORBA vs java-RMI

On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 11:12:47 +0900, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

> On Sunday, June 29, 2003, 5:44:47 AM, gabriele wrote:
>> Actually I'm in the way to substain an exam [1] in the next week 
>> about distributed technologies and I'd like to plug ruby into it.
>> some hint ?
> 
>> [1] I'm the student , not the teacher. Usually I have problem
>> comunicating this in english
> 
> I can't help you with the Ruby, but I will with the English.
> 
> There's no such word as "substain".  As a student, one can
> 
>    sit an exam
>    take an exam
> 
> and probably others.  "sit" is probably the word you're after.

'attain' seems to make sense too ?

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Simon Strandgaard