What is Python?

[Delaney, Timothy]

Personally, I prefer

- May I speak to Tim?

[one of]

- Speaking.
- That would be me ...
- No! Bugger off you phone-marketing pest!

Tim Delaney
Avaya Australia
+61 2 9532 9079

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Moshe Zadka [mailto:moshez at zadka.site.co.il]
> Sent: Wednesday, 22 November 2000 12:31 AM
> To: grante at visi.com
> Cc: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Re: What is Python? 
> 
> 
> > In article <00fh1tgaludcggor2rigl2d4uuh2dpni5t at 4ax.com>, 
> Courageous wrote:
> > 
> > >This is also quickly dropping by the wayside as awkward and
> > >stuffy. For example, many people have no problem at all whatsoever
> > >picking up the phone and saying "it's me," even though 
> that's illegal
> > >according to older grammatical standards.
> > 
> > And also damned uninformative.  Not that "It is I" is any less
> > useless a tautology.
> 
> Depends on the question.
> 
> - Who is Moshe?
> - It is I. (Or it's me)
> 
> That's very informative. But it's the same thing on the phone:
> 
> [Bad line]
> - May I speak to Moshe?
> - It's me. [Meaning, Moshe is me -- Ed.]
> - Moshe, I didn't recognize your voice.
> 
> Now, the "It's me" sounds very informative to me. 
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