Re: Nautilus, Eazel, Gnome and Andy Herzfeld (off topic)

["Ben FrantzDale" <frantb rpi edu>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc@cu-portland.edu>
To: <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 1:12 PM
Subject: RE: Nautilus, Eazel, Gnome and Andy Herzfeld


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mawarkus@t-online.de [mailto:mawarkus@t-online.de]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 1:57 PM
> > To: gnome-list@gnome.org
> > Subject: Re: Nautilus, Eazel, Gnome and Andy Herzfeld
> >
> >
> > +++ Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 11:01:38AM -0800 +++ Andy Tai e-mails me.
> > Film at 11. Reply right now, after the break.
> > > That should be "the GNOME Project has not ...."
> > > > Hey, how come the GNOME Propect have not made much hype over the
> > > > existence of Eazel, the developers behind the next generation
> > > > GNOME file manager... except that they have some big people
> > > > working on it.
> >
> > Actually, "the GNOME Project have" is quite acceptable because the
> > GNOME Project employs a multitude of people.
> >
> > "The Who have created a new rock opera."

That could go either way. I think technicly it'd be ``The Who has...''
because the ``The Who'' is singular. If you take ``The Who'' to mean the
members of The Who, then ``...they have...''

> > "The police have caught him."

Right. ``They (the police) have caught him'' but ``the officer has caught
him''

> > "The GNOME Project have given him a new job."

The GNOME project is one thing. It's made of many people but there's only
one project. You wouldn't say ``the gnome project...they...'' would you?

At the risk of generalizing, I think if you can use ``they'' then you can
use have, if you can use ``he/she/it'' then it's ``has''.

I'll be quiet now :-)

--Ben

> >
> > At least that's what they taught me in school.
>
> It's probably acceptable, but it "sounds" wrong.  I don't have any
textbooks
> here to double check though.
> Greg
>
>
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