Re: European Day of Languages Day

On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:41:35 -0700, Evan Kirshenbaum
<kirshenbaum@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

LFS <laura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Robert Lieblich wrote:
R H Draney wrote:

Please tell me you found a suitably scatological name to replace
"Recycle Bin".
Sadly, that's one of the few that I'm not allowed to edit.

And it's the most irritating of all, IMO. Nothing that goes in it
actually gets recycled, does it?

Of course it does. When you empty the bin, every single disk block of
every file you put in it gets added to your computer's stock of empty
blocks that it can write new stuff on. Otherwise, you'd keep having
to buy more disk space to replace the stuff you threw out.

I suspect there are different meanings of "recycled" being used here.

You have mentioned the recycling of the disk space. What, I think, Laura
was referring to was the recycling, reuse, of the content, that is
rescuing a file from the recycle bin.

--
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)
.

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