Aw: Re: Debian's Presence on Twitter (X)

> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. Januar 2025 um 20:00
> Von: "Justin B Rye" <[email protected]>
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: Debian's Presence on Twitter (X)
>
> Roberto A. Foglietta wrote:
> > Justin B Rye wrote:
> >> Roberto A. Foglietta wrote:
> >>> Jonathan Carter <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>> This isn't useful or amusing,
> >>>
> >>> s/or/nor/ - I think you was intending.
> >>
> >> No.  "Nor" is usually required following "neither", and also occurs
> >> between clauses, but otherwise (between constituents within a clause,
> >> with no "neither" around) the word is almost always "or", with a few
> >> idiomatic exceptions like "I couldn't make head nor tail of it".
> >
> > Thanks Justin. I will ask for your support when I would be in need of
> > a grammar correction tool. Have you ever tried to approach in this way
> > a girl in a pub? Correcting her grammar instead of catching the
> > meaning?
>
> You seem to have forgotten that the person who attempted to derail the
> conversation with grammatical pedantry was you.  This is strange, when
> it's right there in the quoted context.
>
> > It is something quite interesting to do. I suggest it to you because
> > you have such a talent. But I have to warn about using that approach
> > only as an exit strategy. Instead of saying "I do not like you and do
> > not even care of understanding you", just a polite and intellectual
> > act of arbitrary superiority in grammar correction.
>
> So are you saying that's why you do it?  Or was it intended as a
> chat-up line?  Either way, it's probably more likely to work if it
> isn't obvious nonsense.
>
> > Please, feel comfortable in sharing this - IN FULL - reply with your
> > "friends" on IRC channels, and more is better. ;-)
>
> You seem to have accidentally sent this only to me, rather than the
> list where the conversation was happening, but if you're still
> interested I'd suggest moving it to debian-l10n-english where issues
> of negative agreement in conjunctions would have been on-topic.
> --
> JBR - and today's single word in West Greenlandic is:
> 	Qiteqatigerusuppingaa? "Would you like to dance with me?"
>


I do not have a(n active) Twitter/X account, so I do not know and/or care too much.
But if Twitter/X is more sexistic and more ad hominem than this exchange
on a list of Debian, then Debian should cut all ties as soon as possible, indeed.

Steffen