Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry,soc.culture.british,soc.culture.celtic,sci.lang
Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!oitnews.harvard.edu!purdue!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!hookup!news.mathworks.com!uhog.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!ncrgw2.ncr.com!ncrhub2!ncrcae!news
From: Ken Kotlowski <ken.kotlowski@clemsonsc.attgis.com>
Subject: Re: WORD ORIGINS AND USAGE -- Words, Wit and Wisdom on the Web
Message-ID: <DCt3AL.DnC@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.ATTGIS.COM>
Sender: news@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.ATTGIS.COM (news)
Reply-To: ken.kotlowski@clemsonsc.attgis.com (KKOTLOWSKI)
Organization: WPD-Clemson
X-Newsreader: DiscussIT 2.5.0.10 for MS Windows [AT&T Software Products Division]
References: <DCsD5r.4tr@cee.hw.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 21:49:33 GMT
Lines: 51


==========Nick Taylor, 8/4/95==========

In article <3vq7u8$c3@trog.dra.hmg.gb>,
   wagray@taz.dra.hmg.gb (Walter Gray) wrote:
>In article <3vnkkk$q5a@nms.telepost.no>, Espen Nyborg <gruner@telepost.no> 
writes:
>>wagray@taz.dra.hmg.gb (Walter Gray) wrote:
>>>In article <807259001.18169@acclaim.demon.co.uk>, Frank@acclaim.demon.co.uk

(Frank Hendrix) writes:
>>>>monsourc@ford.uchicago.edu (Christopher Monsour) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>In article <DCBn8y.Ft2@madge1.madge.co.uk>,
>>>>>Jill Baker PJbakerT-SP <jbaker@madge1.madge.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>Then there's names. A (male) friend of mine had to keep his expression
>>>>>>seriously in check when an apparently pretty young woman greeted him
with
>>>>>>the phrase "Hi, I'm Randy".
>>>>
>>>>>What's the difference between a pretty young woman and an apparently
>>>>>pretty young woman?  Doesn't `pretty' describe appearance here?  Or is
>>>>>it used differently in Britain?
>>>>
>>>>Arte you taking about a woman who is "pretty young" or a young woman
>>>>who is "pretty"?
>>>>
>>>
>>>Or a young woman who is pretty randy?
>>>
>>Randy who?
>>
>
>No no, Who is Bandy, How is Randy.

Pretty well.


Apparently.

Nick Taylor
Department of Computing and Electrical Engineering       Tel: + 44 131 451
3436
Heriot-Watt University                                   Fax: + 44 131 451
3431
Riccarton, Edinburgh EH14 4AS                          Email:
nick@cee.hw.ac.uk
Scotland, United Kingdom           Web:
http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/Staff/nick.html


