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(...) Let's not forget the startup screen of every Windows 2000 out there[1]: "Built on NT Technology" NT = New Technology [1] Except those who have it customized of course *falls back into the background noise once more* /Tobbe (URL) (22 years ago, 20-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) German, too. "Thunfisch," IIRC. (...) Apparently in England there is a hill called "Torpenhow Hill." Quoth Patricia C. Wrede (noted fantasy novelist) in rec.arts.sf.composition: First set of invaders: What's that? Natives: The Tor. (...) (22 years ago, 20-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | The Mother Tongue (WAS: Re: Another one for Maggie:)
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(...) Dave, If you're truly interested in such things, I would strongly suggest picking up a copy of a book called "The Mother Tongue: English and how it got that way." by Bill Bryson. (URL) Bryson is perhaps best known as a travel writer, he (...) (22 years ago, 20-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I'm not an expert in language issues, but it seems to me there is a very slight differnce in the two, like the dictionary says. If I were to read "flammable", I'd think it pointed to the possibility of spontaneous ignition (like phosphorus (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Everyone should please forgive Dave, who is usually a level headed person, but has appanretly been abducted by aliens. The Real Dave would have never posted something like this without considering the number of heart attacks the post would cause... (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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