From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ip15.shellworld.net ([64.49.204.174] helo=server2.shellworld.net ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CC4k9-0004UE-00 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:17:17 -0400 Received: from server2.shellworld.net (klewellen@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server2.shellworld.net (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i8RNHGEo015825 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 23:17:16 GMT (envelope-from klewellen@shellworld.net) Received: from localhost (klewellen@localhost) by server2.shellworld.net (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id i8RNHGEQ015822 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:17:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: server2.shellworld.net: klewellen owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:17:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Karen Lewellen To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: <20040927223942.GM7958@rednote.net> Message-ID: 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; format=flowed 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 23:17:17 -0000 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 >