Xref: utzoo comp.graphics:14639 comp.windows.x:29928 Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!abvax!iccgcc!herrickd From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.windows.x Subject: Re: 3D graphics under X (summary of responses - long) Message-ID: <2127.27511e0f@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> Date: 26 Nov 90 18:52:14 GMT References: <2811@laura.UUCP> Lines: 37 In article <2811@laura.UUCP>, klute@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) writes: > In article , chrisp@bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au > (Christopher Pudney) writes: > |> [...] > |> > |> The following is a summary of the reponses I received: > |> [...] > > If my English is not too bad what you posted was not the sum (summary) > itself but all its separate terms instead. A real summary would have > consisted of a few lines "summing up" the statements in the messages and > perhaps a conclusion. > > -- > Dipl.-Inform. Rainer Klute klute@irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de > Univ. Dortmund, IRB klute@unido.uucp, klute@unido.bitnet > Postfach 500500 |)|/ Tel.: +49 231 755-4663 > D-4600 Dortmund 50 |\|\ Fax : +49 231 755-2386 Rainer, I think what you have encountered is that "summary" is no longer an English word on the net. I have been watching this usage in several newsgroups in the few months I have been reading news. They say "summary", but what they mean is all the responses catenated together with some of the routing noise (usually) edited out. The thing that gets posted under the word "summary" does not even justify using a word like "digest". Perhaps "gurgitation" would be appropriate - they just vomit out all that came in. Your English is well formed and colloquial (not pedantic or stilted or academic). The American network does not use that language. Unfortunately. Netiquette is strange. dan herrick herrickd@astro.pc.ab.com