[zeromq-dev] CurveZMQ - RFC26 : possible Hello weaknesses ?

James Gatannah james.gatannah at gmail.com
Mon Aug 19 02:31:50 CEST 2013


On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Laurent Alebarde <l.alebarde at free.fr>wrote:

>  Hi Pieter,
>
> You are right. That makes sense. BTW, I suppose you wanted to write :
> "it's wise that CurveZMQ track CurveCP as close as possible".
>

English is *such* a ridiculous language!

I double-checked with my wife, who's into these sorts of questions. (Her
mom's a grammar teacher). She spends a lot of time double-checking for
people who picked up English as a second language.

Using "close" is the way native speakers generally express the idea, though
it's grammatically incorrect (from this angle, "closely" would have been
correct). The original version ("far") implies staying in lock-step until
CurveCP goes over a cliff.

The three are almost interchangeable. The differences are subtle, and
mostly a matter of the personality of the speaker. My wife's pretty
authoritarian (the closest we've gotten to a fight was a discussion about
using "I" vs. "me") when it comes to grammar...and she wouldn't hold this
against anyone, except in an extremely formal context.

Pieter has better grammar than most best-selling novelists. I know that
this probably wasn't intended as a cheap shot, but it came across that way.


>
> Cheers,
>
> Laurent.
>

Regards,
James
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