From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.24]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.1) with ESMTPA id 116904 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 19 May 2006 09:38:34 -0400 Message-ID: <446DCA51.9060806@2rosenthals.com> Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 09:38:25 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060510 MultiZilla/1.8.2.0h SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: OT: English Usage (was: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: WiFI) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit True, Kenn, the more (or less) correct word is "jibe," however, as a Jazz (and classical) musician (most people don't know that I hold two degrees in music), I tend to think of "jibe" as meaning a jest, and "jive" as a meshing together. That said, even Merriam-Webster doesn't define "jibe" (a variant of "gibe") as a meshing together, but rather only as the more common jest. Still, your point is well taken, my friend. ;-) I hope everyone derived the same enjoyment from my turn of the phrase as we did!! On 05/19/2006 09:25 am, Kenn Yuill thus wrote : > > Good Morning Lewis, > > Excuse my intrusion, the word 'jive' has various meaning as a verb, > such as to play or dance to jive music and is used slangily to mean > tease or fool, whereas 'jibe', in this context, means to agree or be > in accord with, versus the meaning for sailors to shift direction > continually while sailing before the wind. > > Of course, 'jive' could be a typing error in your case, but I made the > same grammatical mistake not so long ago to the amusement of my > audience, :-D . > > > On 19/05/06 at 08:14, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote about the subject of > "[OS2Wireless]Re: WiFI" > > That's interesting to hear. It doesn't jive with what I've read > > (or experienced), but it's interesting to read. I'll do some > > further digging on this. > -oOo- -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users International www.novell.com/linux/truth Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------