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From: andrew@cee.hw.ac.uk (Andrew Dinn)
Subject: Re: Warning : newbie question
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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 15:29:18 GMT
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Ted Dunning (ted@crl.nmsu.edu) wrote:

: the answer is that full stop is a slightly british way of saying
: period (i.e. the character ".").

: "full stop" is a nice term since is lacks most of the connotation of
: sentence terminator which would be inappropriate in describing many of
: the uses of the character.

Not in Britain it doesn't. Tricky thing `connotation' - one day I'll
post my complete theory of connotational semantics... one day.


Andrew Dinn
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