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Re: [Bug-tar] "Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive"
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Sergey Poznyakoff |
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Re: [Bug-tar] "Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive" |
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Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:30:24 +0200 |
> You -do- realize that the subject line is not English, right?
Wrong:
"He, being in the vaward, placed behind
With purpose to relieve and follow them,
cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke."
-- William Shakespeare,
King Henry VI, part I, Act I, scene I
The above quotation shows clearly that "cowardly" can function as an
adverb. As you should know, there is a class of words in English that
are used as adjectives as well as adverbs, e.g.: deep, fast, early,
friendly, cowardly, etc.
> (Note the dot at the end. Terminal punctuation is another fine
> feature of English syntax.)
Apart from the obvious fact that punctuation is not a part or
"feature" of the syntax, GNU standards clearly require that all
diagnostic messages "should not end with a period."
Regards,
Sergey
--
Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is
a niggard in deed.
-- Sir Walter Raleigh