[OT] onTO - How's that - OTonTO

[Jan Schenkel]

Well, considering the support for the four spellings
of hilite/highlight/highlite/hilight, on/onto would
not be too much to ask, I'd say..

True, there are other things each of us would rather
have added onto the environment in terms of
functionality and/or ease of use and/or speed of
delevopment.

But there's nothing wrong with asking :-)

Just my two eurocents of course,

Jan Schenkel.

"As we grow oldee, we grow both wiser and more foolish
at the same time."  (De Rochefoucald)

--- Klaus Major <k_major at osnabrueck.netsurf.de> wrote:
> Hi Jim and all,
> 
> there is a list somewhere called "xTalk".
> 
> I think that would be the right place for this
> "linguistic and semantic 
> for beginners/intermediates" thread.
> 
> Please continue this academic "battle" there.
> 
> And you may also consult Mr. Scott Raney, who might
> have to say 
> something to this thread ;-)
> 
> But i am sure he's got some more important work to
> do ;-)
> (Making MC to support the full UNIX-strength of OS
> X...)
> 
> >   Tyue, but there has always been a difference
> between proper written 
> > English and "proper" spoken English (the Queen's
> Enlgish or whatever), 
> > and whatever is actually spoken by people. 
> Who/Whom is a case in point 
> > (IMO, that distinction will be all but gone in
> spoken english within 20 
> > years if not already, and may fade from written
> English within 100 
> > years [especailly if we had an intervening world
> war that destroyed 
> > most of the dictionaries..])  Farther/Further is
> another favorite point 
> > of contention, one referring to distance and the
> other to degree.  
> > James Kilpatrick's newspaper column "The Writer's
> Art" in the 
> > Bloomington Herald Times (it may be syndicated as
> well) loves this kind 
> > of linguistic confusion.
> >
> >   BUT, I haven't been following this thread since
> it's beginning, but 
> > it seems to me that if there is some confusion on
> whether 'on' or 
> > 'onto' is more correct, then xTalk should support
> BOTH.  Yes this leads 
> > to a technically more verbose syntax.  But
> considering the words in 
> > question are so morphologically and semantically
> close to each other 
> > makes this easier to swallow than Applescript
> allowing you to address 
> > parameters using the pronouns with,from,to,onto,
> etc, etc, etc 
> > ("Dammit!  Which pronoun do I have to use to get
> this to work!!?")
> >
> > Jim
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Klaus Major
> k_major at osnabrueck.netsurf.de
> 
> 
> P.S.
> Has someone ever heard about arguing about the
> syntax of C or C++ or 
> Java or whatever ?
> 
> What is so difficult to learn some expressions that
> are SOOOOO close to 
> the english language.
> 
> What about the non native speaking folks ? Do we
> compain about that ?
> 
> Looks like you have to much free time ;-)
> 


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