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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.cs.utah.edu!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Call for 386BSD Rel.1.0 SIG (Special Interest Group) Date: 26 Aug 1994 08:15:08 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 45 Message-ID: <33k8ac$1df@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <1994Aug23.170100.7763@system9.unisys.com> <jmonroyCv240o.22n@netcom.com> <1994Aug25.064656.3051@cs.brown.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <1994Aug25.064656.3051@cs.brown.edu> mhw@cs.brown.edu (Mark Weaver) writes: ] In article <jmonroyCv240o.22n@netcom.com>, ] Jesus Monroy Jr <jmonroy@netcom.com> wrote: ] > Reliable is a noun. Please note this. ] > Reliablility is an adverb. So come back at me with your answer. ] ] Jesus, you really shouldn't go explaining english to people, when ] you clearly don't have a clue. ] ] Reliable is an adjective. ] Reliablility is not a word. ] Reliability is a noun. ] ] I believe I speak for the majority of readers here when I say that ] his response makes more sense than just about anything I've ever ] seen you write. Actually, as much as I hate defending Jesus... I am a dictionary thumper. 1re-li-able \ri-'l[0xF5]^--e-bel\ adj (1569) 1: suitable or fit to be relied on: DEPENDABLE 2: giving the same result on successive trials -- re-li-able-ness n -- re-li-ably \-ble^-\ adv 2reliable n (1890) :one that is reliable Reliable is an adjective. You are right, Jesus is wrong. Reliable is an adverb. You are both wrong. Reliable is an noun. You are wrong and Jesus is right, providing he went to school in 1890. But frag that, back to the *other* inane discussion. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.