Re: Data folks
From: Jonathan Leffler <jleffler_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 05:58:41 GMT
Message-ID: <3F02751F.8030104_at_earthlink.net>
> Juan,
>
> I assume that you are reading some text and that english is a second
> language for you. I suggest a more appropriate strategy for understanding
> unfamiliar english terms is to drop them into the text box at the top of
> http://www.dictionary.com/
>
> It's not really appropriate to ask the folks at comp.databases.theory to
> provide remedial lessons on colloquial english usage.
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 05:58:41 GMT
Message-ID: <3F02751F.8030104_at_earthlink.net>
Bob Badour wrote:
> "Juan Pardillos" <sicotom_at_eresmas.com> wrote:
>>would someone please explain me what database people understand by >>"data folks"? I haven't heard that expression before...
> Juan,
>
> I assume that you are reading some text and that english is a second
> language for you. I suggest a more appropriate strategy for understanding
> unfamiliar english terms is to drop them into the text box at the top of
> http://www.dictionary.com/
>
> It's not really appropriate to ask the folks at comp.databases.theory to
> provide remedial lessons on colloquial english usage.
Give him a break - it is a better quesstion than some we see here.
-- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler_at_earthlink.net, jleffler_at_us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2003.04 -- http://dbi.perl.org/Received on Wed Jul 02 2003 - 07:58:41 CEST