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From: donh@netcom.com (Don HARLOW)
Subject: Re: Esperanto? The EU? (Very, very long)
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schirmer@cs.tu-berlin.de (Oskar Schirmer) skribis en lastatempa afisxo <3hqgau$2ji@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>:
>
>this is great. while discussing about it, the two persons quotet above
>are victim to a misunderstanding related to the fact that the word "fix"
>in the english language has two different, contra-dicting meanings:
>
>- fix in the sense of attach and prevent from being subject to further change
>- fix (up) in the sense of change to fit actual requirements
>
>not that i'm glad to see people misunderstand each other, but it's funny
>to see this on the topic "esperanto" while talking english.
>
Nothing new in that! I've posted elsewhere the story that the British 
and American high commands in London during the War spend half a day 
arguing over whether a particular proposal should be "tabled" -- before 
they realized that they both wanted the same thing, and were just using 
the word differently.

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