Les Mikesell wrote:
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 2:54 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
What, I *shouldn't* tell him what he's doing wrong? Just try to do his job for him, and let him come back, again and again, without ever actually learning something?
Well, yeah. Once he fixes his network so gnome works, why would he keep coming back?
If he does. I mean, he kept complaining about the "black screen", and appeared to have no idea how to look at the files....
I know what you mean, of course. But it's sort of like telling someone to learn latin before they can understand english. Not an inherently bad concept but it shouldn't be necessary.
I dunno - I don't think I was telling him to learn latin; rather, that he should increase his vocabulary beyond, oh, I read, years back, that the *average* American's *average* vocabulary was about 500 words... and that Koko the gorilla had 550 in ASL....
mark "eep, eep"