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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Protoworld: tank = liquid container
In-Reply-To: kevdaly@central.co.nz's message of 23 May 1995 05:30:47 GMT
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In article <3prru7$e4m@central.co.nz> kevdaly@central.co.nz (Kevin Daly)
writes:

>In article <3pbnta$b4m@tardis.trl.OZ.AU>, jbm@newsserver.trl.oz.au
>(Jacques Guy) wrote:

>>Congratulations, Scott, you caught one!

>>As we say: "Il ne marche pas, il court!".

>Okay, rub it in.

>Sigh.

>You wouldn't believe what I've seen people say in all seriousness...

Oh, yes, we would.  That's one of the reasons for the on-going game played by
Mssrs. Guy and Horne, inter alia.  We've many of us read works like those of
Ruhlen, and (when not completely appalled) find them hysterically funny.

I think the lesson to be taken from all this is that in matters _tou pro:tou
kosmou_, _caveat lector_.
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
