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  • R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah
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    How to pronounce/refer "!important"?

    I'm just wondering, what is the correct way to refer to "!important ".
    I currently refer it is "not important"--but I guess, it's wrong. What
    is the correct way? TIA

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    • Rik Wasmus
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      Re: How to pronounce/refer &quot;!importan t&quot;?

      On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:21:44 +0100, R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah
      <ng4rrjanbiah@r ediffmail.comwr ote:
      I'm just wondering, what is the correct way to refer to "!important ".
      I currently refer it is "not important"--but I guess, it's wrong. What
      is the correct way? TIA
      I just call it 'important', because that what it is. The ! is just a
      delimiter.
      Assigning property values, Cascading, and Inheritance
      http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#important-rules

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        • R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah
          #3
          Re: How to pronounce/refer &quot;!importan t&quot;?

          On Mar 20, 3:41 pm, "Rik Wasmus" <luiheidsgoe... @hotmail.comwro te:
          On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:21:44 +0100, R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah
          >
          <ng4rrjanb...@r ediffmail.comwr ote:
          I'm just wondering, what is the correct way to refer to "!important ".
          I currently refer it is "not important"--but I guess, it's wrong. What
          is the correct way? TIA
          >
          I just call it 'important', because that what it is. The ! is just a
          delimiter.http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#important-rules
          "important" is the meaning and I understand it. But, think about
          the situation of teacher who has to refer the notation when he write
          it on board; how should he refer?

          <OT>
          Here in South India, people refer a*b as "a into b". But, lately I
          have seen that Dijkstra refers it as "a times b" (in a google video).
          </OT>

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            • Harlan Messinger
              #4
              Re: How to pronounce/refer &quot;!importan t&quot;?

              R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah wrote:
              On Mar 20, 3:41 pm, "Rik Wasmus" <luiheidsgoe... @hotmail.comwro te:
              >On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:21:44 +0100, R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah
              >>
              ><ng4rrjanb...@ rediffmail.comw rote:
              >>I'm just wondering, what is the correct way to refer to "!important ".
              >>I currently refer it is "not important"--but I guess, it's wrong. What
              >>is the correct way? TIA
              >I just call it 'important', because that what it is. The ! is just a
              >delimiter.http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#important-rules
              >
              "important" is the meaning and I understand it. But, think about
              the situation of teacher who has to refer the notation when he write
              it on board; how should he refer?
              >
              <OT>
              Here in South India, people refer a*b as "a into b". But, lately I
              have seen that Dijkstra refers it as "a times b" (in a google video).
              </OT>
              Really? In the US, "a into b" means "b divided by a" = b/a.

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                • R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah
                  #5
                  |OT| Re: How to pronounce/refer &quot;!importan t&quot;?

                  On Mar 20, 4:21 pm, "R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah"
                  <ng4rrjanb...@r ediffmail.comwr ote:
                  <snip>
                  <OT>
                  Here in South India, people refer a*b as "a into b". But, lately I
                  have seen that Dijkstra refers it as "a times b" (in a google video).
                  </OT>
                  Yes. a/b is referred as "a by b" in Mathematical context and "a
                  bar b" referring door numbers (e.g., 20/5). And sometimes "a slash b"
                  in programming context.

                  When we start discussing about countries and cultures, we'd get
                  crazy info. FWIW, I got surprised when someone in a.e.u informed me
                  that asking marital status in Western countries is an offense.

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                    • Marc Schmidt
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                      Re: How to pronounce/refer &quot;!importan t&quot;?

                      R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah <ng4rrjanbiah@r ediffmail.comwr ote:
                      In C, we refer "!" as "not". So, I refer "!important " as "not
                      important". But, I'm still interested in official way of referring.
                      But this is not C it's CSS, which is a totally different topic.

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                      Marc

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                        • Gregor Kofler
                          #7
                          Re: |OT| Re: How to pronounce/refer &quot;!importan t&quot;?

                          R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah meinte:
                          When we start discussing about countries and cultures, we'd get
                          crazy info. FWIW, I got surprised when someone in a.e.u informed me
                          that asking marital status in Western countries is an offense.
                          It isn't. As long as you're not Borat...[1]

                          Gregor

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                            • Andy Dingley
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                              Re: How to pronounce/refer &quot;!importan t&quot;?

                              On 20 Mar, 18:49, "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohn...@gma il.comwrote:
                              The term 'shebang' may or may not be derived from the bang in
                              bang paths.
                              Unlikely, as the term shebang pre-dates bang paths by some years.

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                                • Dr J R Stockton
                                  #9
                                  Re: How to pronounce/refer &quot;!importan t&quot;?

                                  In comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.stylesheets message <68b8d$47e2b1ce $ce
                                  f88ba3$23057@TE KSAVVY.COM>, Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:49:50, Chris F.A.
                                  Johnson <cfajohnson@gma il.composted:
                                  >
                                  The term 'shebang' may or may not be derived from the bang in
                                  bang paths.
                                  The word is most unlikely to have been derived from something that only
                                  came into existence about a century after Mark Twain used the word : see
                                  <http://www.phrases.org .uk/meanings/the-whole-shebang.html>.

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                                    • Blinky the Shark
                                      #10
                                      Re: How to pronounce/refer &quot;!importan t&quot;?

                                      Dr J R Stockton wrote:
                                      In comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.stylesheets message <68b8d$47e2b1ce $ce
                                      f88ba3$23057@TE KSAVVY.COM>, Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:49:50, Chris F.A. Johnson
                                      <cfajohnson@gma il.composted:
                                      >>
                                      > The term 'shebang' may or may not be derived from the bang in bang
                                      > paths.
                                      >
                                      The word is most unlikely to have been derived from something that only
                                      came into existence about a century after Mark Twain used the word : see
                                      <http://www.phrases.org .uk/meanings/the-whole-shebang.html>.
                                      And of course I never implied that there wasn't an existing word "shebang"
                                      that was borrowed as a ref to the symbol pair, the latter symbol of which
                                      is a bang.

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