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Re: Issue 872 in lilypond: Changes split-page has broken images
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Issue 872 in lilypond: Changes split-page has broken images |
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Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:44:47 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 01:54:02PM -0700, Carl Sorensen wrote:
>>
>> On 11/6/09 12:43 PM, "Graham Percival" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 08:14:27PM +0100, John Mandereau wrote:
>> >> but there will be significantly fewer misleaded users if we don't have
>> >
>> > random English stupidity: in this case, it's just "mislead". The
>> > word is already in the past tense.
>>
>> Actually, the word is "misled". There's no "a" in the past tense of "lead".
>
> Well, there *is* an "a" in "leaded". So what if you try to make
> old-fashioned gasoline, but make a mistake? You would then have
> created "misleaded" gas.
> (deliberately removing the lead from gas produces unleaded
> gasoline, but that's not the same thing as making a mistake while
> creating it)
>
> Oh wait... but this means that I was wrong to tell John that there
> was no "misleaded" in English. Curses, foiled again!
But the "lead" in gasoline is pronounced about the same as "led". And
"misleaded" would be pronounced "misleded".
Good thing you did not make your claims in IPA.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Issue 872 in lilypond: Changes split-page has broken images, (continued)
- Re: Issue 872 in lilypond: Changes split-page has broken images, John Mandereau, 2009/11/06
- Re: Issue 872 in lilypond: Changes split-page has broken images, John Mandereau, 2009/11/06
- Re: Issue 872 in lilypond: Changes split-page has broken images, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2009/11/09
- Re: Issue 872 in lilypond: Changes split-page has broken images, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2009/11/09
- Re: Issue 872 in lilypond: Changes split-page has broken images, Graham Percival, 2009/11/06
- Re: Issue 872 in lilypond: Changes split-page has broken images, Carl Sorensen, 2009/11/06
- Re: Issue 872 in lilypond: Changes split-page has broken images, Graham Percival, 2009/11/06
- Re: Issue 872 in lilypond: Changes split-page has broken images,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Issue 872 in lilypond: Changes split-page has broken images, John Mandereau, 2009/11/09
- Re: Issue 872 in lilypond: Changes split-page has broken images, Graham Percival, 2009/11/09
- Re: Issue 872 in lilypond: Changes split-page has broken images, John Mandereau, 2009/11/09
- Re: Issue 872 in lilypond: Changes split-page has broken images, Graham Percival, 2009/11/09
- Re: Issue 872 in lilypond: Changes split-page has broken images, John Mandereau, 2009/11/12
- Re: Issue 872 in lilypond: Changes split-page has broken images, Graham Percival, 2009/11/12
- Re: Issue 872 in lilypond: Changes split-page has broken images, Kieren MacMillan, 2009/11/12
- Re: Issue 872 in lilypond: Changes split-page has broken images, Graham Percival, 2009/11/12
- Re: Issue 872 in lilypond: Changes split-page has broken images, John Mandereau, 2009/11/21
- Re: Issue 872 in lilypond: Changes split-page has broken images, Graham Percival, 2009/11/21