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Re: This is cool!
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Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:15:46 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Shiri Dori writes:
So did you write all these down now, or just get a really good thesaurus?
<grin> Coz if it's the first... you must be enjoying work. ;-)

Lunch, Baby!  Call me Mr. Lunch.

But, no -- I cheated and used MS Bookshelf's Roget's.  I get caught up in
words sometimes.  I am continually fascinated by the limitations of language,
the way people mangle it, they way people make up words, etc.  As a bilingual
person (my first tongue being spanish) -- I sometimes mispronounce things and
mangle English a pretty good deal of the time as well...

-- Richard



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(...) Dear me... lunch... it's 22:30 over here, I'm debating with myself whether to stay up s'more or go back to the dorms and catch up on some sleep. (Or maybe gabbing, instead of sleep.) (...) Oh, certainly. It's very interesting. I'm wrestling (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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XFUT .o-t.fun (...) Ah, yes (duh), well, somehow I've got the sinking feeling that my roots will be withering a lot in the next couple of years, as if they haven't been already... ouch. But hopefully... one of these days... I'll figure it out. (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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