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 1CC4n7-0004ZU-00 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:20:21 -0400 Received: from concerto.rednote.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by concerto.rednote.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i8RNJTZv020860 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:19:30 -0400 Received: (from janina@localhost) by concerto.rednote.net (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i8RNJTx3020859 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:19:29 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:19:29 -0400 From: Janina Sajka To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20040927231929.GR7958@rednote.net> References: <20040927185029.GS7958@rednote.net> <200409271917.i8RJHIZg020190@ms-smtp-03-eri0.southeast.rr.com> <20040927202129.GT7958@rednote.net> <20040927223942.GM7958@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 23:20:21 -0000 Sounds like Humpty Dumpty logic, actually. "When I use a word, it means precisely what I mean it to mean, no more, no less." That really helps, now, doesn't it? Karen Lewellen writes: > wrong again, > My definition as it was my question involving my situation is numberone in > the only dictionary that mattershere. > > > On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Janina Sajka wrote: > > >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 > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040