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From: donh@netcom.com (Don HARLOW)
Subject: Re: Re^3: THE WORLD'S...LANGUAGE*!!!
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Dejan Djukic <Dejan.Djukic@circ.de.epfl.ch> skribis en lastatempa afisxo <3mgjjl$qo0@info.epfl.ch>:
>donh@netcom.com (Don HARLOW) wrote:
>
>[...]
>> End of anecdote. We may suppose that the group turned to some other, more 
>> congenial topic -- and that if its members ever got involved in another 
>> discussion about Esperanto, they were even more critical of it. After 
>> all, as has been said in more than one society, while it may be bad to 
>> call someone a fool, it is absolutely intolerable to prove it.
>
>I prefere Tchaikovski to Mozart,
>I prefere Braque to Picasso,
>I prefere Kafka to Camus
>I prefere carrots to parsnip,
>I prefere vanilla ice-cream to chocolate ice-cream
>I prefere a rainy day to a sunny day 
>(except for the bicycle, that is)...
>I even prefere this news-group (sci.lang) to 
>(put here whichever you wish).
>
>Now, if any of these means I am a fool, so I am.
>
Anybody who prefers carrots to parsnips can't be a _complete_ fool.

In fact, my posting was intended as a sidebar, not a rebuttal. It was 
pretty obvious from yours that, had you been in the crowd around 
Grabowski, you would not have reacted as they did, but would have found 
_both_ readings ugly. Consequently, I never intended for you to try to 
wear that shoe.

Based on some stuff I saw here in February, though, there are a couple of 
people (who might have read this) who _would_ find that the shoe fits 
quite nicely.


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