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[Måns Rullgård]

Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:

> On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 01:37:12AM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
>> 
>> > On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 03:09:25PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> > [...]
>> >> > I had tried to explain to you before that as administrator, you have
>> >> > significantly higher responsibility than other developers.
>> >> 
>> >> Nonsense.  I'm no different from others.
>> >
>> > didnt you say you where the expert and the others the "great unwashed"
>> 
>> Diego is one of the devs with the best command of English grammar,
>> native speaker or not.  Amongst us, I consider him one of the experts
>> on that topic.  You (Michael) are one of the worst.  I respect your
>> expertise in matters of x86 optimisation etc, but when it comes to the
>> English language, you have nothing to contribute.  Sorry.
>
> ive seen a few english experts, the wanderer is one possibly and on occasion
> there also are non developers who appear to have some serious english
> knowledge.
> Your english knowledge is clearly a step above diegos and diegos clearly a
> step above mine. But neither of you have the knowledge of an average english
> professor as far as i can tell.
> Diego just yesterday messed up placing a ,
> and you where corrected by rodney baker IIRC.

I guess I'm not flawless after all.  Shocking!

> Please dont misunderstand me, i respect your and diegos abilities and i
> know you are worlds above my english abilities but you arent at the level
> i would call expert.

Since we don't seem to have any actual professors of English around,
we must get by with the best of what we do have.  That is neither you
nor Stefano.

>> > besides if you arent different, it would be nice if you followed
>> > the same path as the others and posted patches when the changes
>> > are obviously in need of review and discussion.
>> 
>> I have never seen Diego abuse his powers as root on mphq.  For a
>
> the uoti case for example

Uoti was kicked out of mplayer after long discussions.  Nobody did
anything on mphq before the matter was settled.

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