Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 2:54 PM, <m.roth at 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"