Re: GNU/Linux Naming

[Miles Bader]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:
>    Or, put differently, you got eggplant on your face.
>
> I think you mean `an eggplant', now who has the dirty face?

"Eggplant" without "an" is a mass-noun referring to the material of an
eggplant.  Something you're much more likely to have on your face than a
whole single eggplant...

-Miles

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I'd rather be consing.