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Date:         Sat, 5 Aug 2000 12:16:32 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
Subject:      Re: it is friday: language was: Re: Skylight Guy or Bus
              Depot??friday?
Comments: To: Karl Ploessl <ploessl@sunmac.spect.upenn.edu>
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At 13:06 7/14/2000, Karl Ploessl wrote: >but "I can't compare" does only have one meaning? > > Karl, whose mother tongue is German.

Correct. The confusion arose because Pierre was writing telegraphically and left off the "I," so that it could be construed as "It" instead.

david David Beierl - Providence, RI http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage" '85 GL "Poor Relation"


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