LiveCode 10 - what are your thoughts on the new features?

[J. Landman Gay]

Any thread in which two LC team members participate cannot possibly be 
considered off-topic and subsequently banned.

But while I agree completely with your definition, it got me concerned that 
if I were to marry a very tall, large man, I would be a bigamist.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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On September 9, 2021 5:52:02 AM Heather Laine via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Ok, I cannot help myself. Somewhere in this thread was mentioned "a couple 
> of carrots" and this was defined as two. It is in fact not two. It is the 
> equivalent amount of carrots to about 2, if the carrots are well sized but 
> not enormous. If you have small carrots, please chop 3. If they are huge, 
> one is enough. Thus, a couple of carrots. A perfectly sensible request 
> which any sensible husband should be able to interpret correctly.
>
> Warmest regards to all, and should I add carrots to cheese as items that 
> should not arise too often for extensive discussion?
>
> Heather
>
>
> Heather Laine
> Customer Services Manager
> LiveCode Ltd
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>
>
>> On 9 Sep 2021, at 11:26, Andre Garzia via use-livecode 
>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> I’ll just add that a couple of pints never means exactly two pints….
>>
>> Language is a very fluid thing.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On 8 Sep 2021, at 23:14, matthias rebbe via use-livecode 
>>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Btw. this is how Merriam-Webster thinks about couple, few and several.
>>>
>>> https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/couple-few-several-use 
>>> <https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/couple-few-several-use>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Am 09.09.2021 um 00:08 schrieb matthias rebbe via use-livecode 
>>>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>>>>
>>>> More than three.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> Am 09.09.2021 um 00:04 schrieb Bob Sneidar via use-livecode 
>>>>>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>> Then what does a few mean?
>>>>>
>>>>> Bob S
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sep 8, 2021, at 14:49 , matthias rebbe via use-livecode 
>>>>>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How lucky we Germans are with having to write some words in capitals. ;)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 'ein Paar' (a couple)  means 2
>>>>>> 'ein Paar Schuhe' means a pair of shoes
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 'ein paar' means two or three or somewhere in the range.
>>>>>> 'ein paar Schuhe' means 2 or 3 or somewhere in the range shoes
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In the English lessons in school  we learned  that for example  'a couple 
>>>>>> of days' meant 2 or 3 or somewhere in that range.
>>>>>> And when we used  'couple' as a noun then it was meant as  2 that belong to 
>>>>>> each other or however you would call that.
>>>>>> e.g. married couple, bird couple. That's the way i use 'couple" now for 
>>>>>> more than 40 years.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Don't tell me that i was wrong more than 40 years. ;)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Am 08.09.2021 um 21:54 schrieb J. Landman Gay via use-livecode 
>>>>>>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My husband said the same when I told him about this thread. "Couple" means 
>>>>>>> two. I said yes, but colloquially it can mean "two or three or somewhere in 
>>>>>>> that range." We almost started a longer discussion about it, but I reminded 
>>>>>>> him of our 30+ years of ongoing talk about a "fact" so we both stopped.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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