norm.raphael@metso.com wrote on 08/08/2007 03:02:05 PM:

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> "Richard B. Gilbert" wrote on 08/08/2007
02:38:13
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> > norm.raphael@metso.com wrote:
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> > > Doug Phillips wrote on 08/08/2007 12:10:27
PM:
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> > >>On Aug 7, 3:53 pm, norm.raph...@metso.com wrote:
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> > >>>Doug Phillips wrote on 08/07/2007 04:15:30
PM:
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> > >>>[snip >8]
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> > >>>Aha! ...but that's illogical. No wonder folks are conflicted.
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> > >>Makes you wonder why the HP folks have been so silent on this (and
not
> > >>just here.) Seems like *someone* in-the-know would explain it if
there
> > >>is an explanation. Do you suppose there's been just such a debate as
> > >>this going on internally? Is there a purge-gate cover-up conspiracy?
> > >>(and JF's door opens.) Or, does no one in HP see it as an issue
> > >>worth discussing?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > > On fait ce q'on peut.
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> > As M once remarked, "This is not the Berlitz School of Languages".
> > Would you be so kind as to provide a "crib" for the monolingual among
us?
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> Monolingual and semi-illiterate.
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> Quote from Master of the Patna (IIRC) in Joseph Conrad's "Lord Jim"
> meaning "One does what one is able to do." or, loosely, "You do your
best."

More accurately: "One does what one can." Quote from a French Officer who
boarded the Patna after she drifted and who stayed on board some 36 hours.
(The Captain was German.) Those "little gray cells" sometimes distort
recall.
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> (This from English, not French, literature. The captain happened to
speak
> French.)
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