From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dsl092-170-084.wdc2.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.170.84] helo=concerto.rednote.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CC4Ab-0002rj-00 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:40:33 -0400 Received: from concerto.rednote.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by concerto.rednote.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i8RMdgaO020596 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:39:42 -0400 Received: (from janina@localhost) by concerto.rednote.net (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i8RMdgF5020595 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:39:42 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:39:42 -0400 From: Janina Sajka To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20040927223942.GM7958@rednote.net> References: <20040927185029.GS7958@rednote.net> <200409271917.i8RJHIZg020190@ms-smtp-03-eri0.southeast.rr.com> <20040927202129.GT7958@rednote.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: Linux concerto.rednote.net 2.6.8-1.541.root Organization: Capital Accessibility LLC (http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com) X-PGP-Key: http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com/JaninaSajka_gpg_key.html Subject: Re: Linux and data storage? X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:40:33 -0000 Karen Lewellen writes: > nope, > suggest means well suggest. > if the question had been or if there had been no question, > a recommendation might have be considered as to have been implied. Well, let's try the dictionary. May I suggest Wordnet's #1, #3, and possibly #5 would apply as well. May I also note that your interpretation is #2 on the word list order, and mine is #1? dict suggest 3 definitions found >>From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Suggest \Sug*gest"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Suggested}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Suggesting}.] [L. suggestus, p. p. of suggerere to put under, furnish, suggest; sub under + gerere to carry, to bring. See {Jest}.] 1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. --Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty. 3. To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt. [Obs.] Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested. --Shak. 4. To inform secretly. [Obs.] Syn: To hint; allude to; refer to; insinuate. >>From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Suggest \Sug*gest"\, v. i. To make suggestions; to tempt. [Obs.] And ever weaker grows through acted crime, Or seeming-genial, venial fault, Recurring and suggesting still. --Tennyson. >>From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: suggest v 1: make a proposal, declare a plan for something [syn: {propose}, {advise}] 2: imply as a possibility; "The evidence suggests a need for more clarification" [syn: {intimate}] 3: drop a hint; intimate by a hint [syn: {hint}] 4: suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine; "Tetracycline is indicated in such cases" [syn: {indicate}] [ant: {contraindicate}] 5: call to mind or evoke [syn: {evoke}, {paint a picture}] > assuming one is reading more into the he sentence than needful, as you seem > to have been doing. > That the word suggestion was used, and as a question, was not or does not > to me imply a recommendation. > It was directed to me. > Karen > as Miss Teach