[Tutor] code works in windows command but not ubuntu terminal

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Jan 26 03:41:19 CET 2014


On 26/01/2014 01:55, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> This is an international forum, and English an international language
> with many slight differences between variations and dialects. Even in
> American English alone, there are ambiguous terms. "Coke" could mean a
> beverage by the Coca-Cola company, a generic or rival cola beverage, a
> generic carbonated beverage of arbitrary flavour, an illegal drug, or a
> type of coal.
>
> http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/308-the-pop-vs-soda-map/
>
> Somehow Americans cope with that. They can learn to cope with the many
> flavours of brackets as well :-)
>

Still my favourite 
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/16285/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-expression-we-can-table-this 
as it caused a row between UK and US commanders during WWII.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence



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