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From: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Syntactical *definition* of English
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Date: 20 Oct 88 04:55:04 GMT
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In article <3349@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) writes:
+even stilted English would be enough for me. I just want to talk to my
+Unix system in a more converstational manner, I have having the keystrokes
+'ls -al' burned into my brain, wasting those valuable neural pathways.

Let's see, if your UNIX system understood conversational English only,
you'd have to say:

    Give me a long listing of everything in the directory.
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