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Post #15,119
by jb4
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10/25/01 12:46:42 PM
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New Re: Reredundunduncey --
Don't misunderstand...I agree with you completely.

I just wish we'd figger out how to spell this creative masterpiece we've created/discovered/inherited.
jb4
(Resistance is not futile...)
Post #15,183
by Ric Locke
10/25/01 11:32:35 PM
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New Brin is part of where I got the idea
but more a matter of ... phraseology and word choice :-)

And yes, English includes French as a subset. Likewise German -- I have German friends who insist that English is just badly-pronounced German.

I once listened to some Germans trying to invent a proper Deutsche phrase for "vignetting", meaning in this case the effect that shows up in wide-angle lenses, where the edge of the photo is less exposed than the center; caused by more glass in the light path, plus greater distance from the lens to film on the edges than the center. They hashed it over for several minutes. Finally I told them to adopt the English-language custom of linguistic imperialism -- if you need a word, and somebody else has it, expropriate the sucker!

And isn't it interesting that except for "bed", furniture -- sofa, divan, pillow, others -- is Arabic?
Regards,
Ric
     Evil Evildoers Of Evil - (kmself) - (35) - Oct. 19, 2001, 08:53:50 PM EDT
         Observation. - (bepatient) - (13) - Oct. 19, 2001, 09:01:49 PM EDT
             Seems a remarkably consistent observation - (Ashton) - Oct. 20, 2001, 12:46:58 AM EDT
             But the country isn't a business. - (Brandioch) - (3) - Oct. 20, 2001, 02:30:58 PM EDT
                 You I'll respond to... - (bepatient) - (2) - Oct. 20, 2001, 02:39:27 PM EDT
                     Well hell, if *That's* all you meant, - (Ashton) - Oct. 20, 2001, 07:07:44 PM EDT
                     Check the government. - (Brandioch) - Oct. 20, 2001, 07:28:19 PM EDT
             Old line: - (admin) - (4) - Oct. 20, 2001, 04:44:14 PM EDT
                 You mean... - (static) - (1) - Oct. 21, 2001, 10:08:59 PM EDT
                     Most capable, most interested in, etc. :-) -NT - (admin) - Oct. 21, 2001, 10:13:11 PM EDT
                 Someone commented... - (addison) - (1) - Oct. 21, 2001, 11:06:38 PM EDT
                     So scary. -NT - (static) - Oct. 22, 2001, 12:41:07 AM EDT
             What was that hierarchy...? - (jb4) - (2) - Oct. 22, 2001, 10:06:48 AM EDT
                 Maslow possibly? - (Steve Lowe) - (1) - Oct. 22, 2001, 10:25:52 AM EDT
                     No, that wasn't it... - (jb4) - Oct. 22, 2001, 01:38:46 PM EDT
         Whew.. there for a few days I thought, - (Ashton) - (1) - Oct. 20, 2001, 12:41:59 AM EDT
             On the subject of flags - (boxley) - Oct. 20, 2001, 08:46:16 PM EDT
         Ha - (deSitter) - Oct. 21, 2001, 04:32:50 AM EDT
         How do you pronounce that, again? - (jb4) - (17) - Oct. 22, 2001, 10:07:59 AM EDT
             Re: How do you pronounce that, again? - (hnick) - (16) - Oct. 22, 2001, 12:56:06 PM EDT
                 I see...so the 'ch' is silent as in "fred"... - (jb4) - (14) - Oct. 22, 2001, 01:42:34 PM EDT
                     yacht -NT - (Silverlock) - (4) - Oct. 22, 2001, 02:07:37 PM EDT
                         Fair enough... - (jb4) - (3) - Oct. 22, 2001, 02:25:49 PM EDT
                             Yer rite :-) - (Silverlock) - (2) - Oct. 22, 2001, 02:58:50 PM EDT
                                 Cthulhu._________________________OK OK but it's close! :-\ufffd -NT - (Ashton) - (1) - Oct. 22, 2001, 07:08:39 PM EDT
                                     :-\ufffd yerself! -NT - (jb4) - Oct. 22, 2001, 10:03:14 PM EDT
                     Uhmm... I think you're overlooking something: - (CRConrad) - (3) - Oct. 22, 2001, 06:59:39 PM EDT
                         Yabut, so can we...equally poorly! - (jb4) - (2) - Oct. 22, 2001, 10:06:39 PM EDT
                             "emote muah" ... -NT - (CRConrad) - (1) - Oct. 23, 2001, 05:28:41 AM EDT
                                 Not so! Below: "We are the superior beings!" -NT - (Ashton) - Oct. 23, 2001, 07:05:27 PM EDT
                     Reredundunduncey -- - (Ric Locke) - (4) - Oct. 24, 2001, 10:15:20 PM EDT
                         Besides, English in some ways includes French. -NT - (a6l6e6x) - Oct. 24, 2001, 10:19:24 PM EDT
                         Same ideas in David Brin's work. - (admin) - Oct. 25, 2001, 10:49:43 AM EDT
                         Re: Reredundunduncey -- - (jb4) - (1) - Oct. 25, 2001, 12:46:42 PM EDT
                             Brin is part of where I got the idea - (Ric Locke) - Oct. 25, 2001, 11:32:35 PM EDT
                 Thanks for the nod. :) -NT - (tseliot) - Oct. 24, 2001, 11:52:30 AM EDT

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