[Edinburgh-pm] Heretical meeting

Hakim Cassimally hakim.cassimally at gmail.com
Thu Sep 30 04:27:22 PDT 2010


On 29 September 2010 23:14, A Smith <asmith9983 at gmail.com> wrote:
> If Yocum is your last name. Is there a list  of those  you have used
> previously ?

Heh.

> Dr Yocum, as a linguist, if you meant Surname you should have said that, but
> sloppy syntax is a Perl thing,

This has nothing to do with syntax though, does it?  "Last name" is a
fairly common phrase that is mostly equivalent to "surname", (and
also, arguably, more understood by non-native speakers of English).

osf'


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