Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!3ce9497d!not-for-mail Reply-To: "David Cressey" From: "David Cressey" Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory References: <1122147449.478112.321090@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <5784s2-g61.ln1@pluto.downsfam.net> <42f53cec$0$11079$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <42f5d50b$0$11071$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <42f60ad3$0$11067$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: Ghost Town Lines: 29 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: <5kwJe.2389$Je.716@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 22:56:01 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.154.200.134 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1123455361 4.154.200.134 (Sun, 07 Aug 2005 15:56:01 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 15:56:01 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.theory:32738 "mAsterdam" wrote in message news:42f60ad3$0$11067$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl... > David Cressey wrote: > > mAsterdam wrote: > > > >>Most of the time a tree based on reply-threads > >>is my preferred presentation. > > > > Excuse me for being picky about word choice. > > > > Did you really mean "presentation" or did you mean "representation". > > I am a non-native english speaker. That may explain my unlucky choice > of words sometimes. Sorry if that happened again. > > http://www.thefreedictionary.com/representation and > http://www.thefreedictionary.com/presentation > Do not really help me to say what I meant using either of these words. > Can you? > > With "presentation" in this context > I intended to mean "how the newsreader visually > renders the headings". > It sounds like "representation" to me, but I could be wrong.