Re: Incorrect use of "it's" in package control files -- file mass bug?
Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> writes:
>>To add to the idiocy, in Great Britain Asian refers exclusively to people
>>from the Indian subcontinent not Orientals, er, Asians.
>
> That's news to me. Who told you that rubbish?
FWIW I lived in Edinburgh for a few years, and the word "asian" was used
(by the populace and the press) pretty much exclusively to refer to
Pakistanis &c. Quite confusing for me...
-Miles
--
In New York, most people don't have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you
have to take the subway to their house. And sometimes on the way, the train
is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to kill someone on the subway.
[George Carlin]
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