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On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:43:29 -0400 |
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Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Alan McKinnon |
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> <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:28:31 -0400 |
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> > Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> > Is this a problem with the English language? I thought I knew it |
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> >> > inside- out, upside-down and back-to-front. I still think so. Yet |
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> >> > your account has you tying yourself in knots over a known fault. |
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> >> Too many uses of the insufficiently-explicit "the board"...but (in |
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> >> English) such ambiguities are usually resolved by surrounding |
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> >> context. |
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> > <evil thought> |
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> > hey, here's an idea, let's fix that by using Hungarian decorators |
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> > on all English nouns! |
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> What, and get Esperanto? (Or Latin. Or Italian. Or Spanish.) |
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Or Fanagalo. |
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It exists - go on, google it :-) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |