Re: Improved (Short) Ygyde

On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 21:58, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> En réponse �  Tristan :
>
> >Does that mean your average French speaker has trouble hearing the
> >difference between 'reed' and 'rid', or are the secondary differences
> >enough for them?
>
> No, the secondary differences are not enough. To an untrained French ear,
> "reed" and "rid" are completely homophonous.
Yet they sound so distinct to me :) (Fortunately, I doubt anyone would
mix up 'reed' and 'rid', being two incredibly distinct words in use and
meaning.)

> >Any reason you've switched? (But yes, it's coming through as text-only.)
>
> I switched because I want to use as few Microslug applications as possible.
> I already switched to Opera for browsing, but Opera and the Webmail I was
> using were somehow incompatible (you may remember a few mails I sent with
> lots of spaces between each line. That was when I tried to use the Webmail
> with Opera). So I was still obliged to use IE for the webmail. By using
> Eudora, I solve this problem :) . And since it seems now to work (I hope so
> at least, I've just had a few more glitches, but hopefully they are solved
> now.
Tell me... if you have the status/log window attached to the bottom of
the window, does Eudora still go mad when you have no windows open? I
found that the most horribly annoying bug in Eudora when I used it, and
it's probably part of what prompted me to convert to Linux as my main OS
:) (again...)

>  I just hope that I didn't by accident set the "Reply-To" field), I'll
> now always use it.
Unless the listserv has taken to replacing other's Reply-Tos with it's
own, you haven't set it.

Tristan.

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