Re: Profiles (WAS: Re: Conlang-to-body-shape connections)
From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
Date: | Saturday, April 12, 2003, 18:13 |
Dan Jones scripsit:
> No, I don't own one (yet!). It means I hold a "justices' licence to sell
> intoxicating liquor" and that I run a pub. Very few licencees own the pubs
> they run these days.
Ah. Then should you get into an argument with one of your competitors,
we can say with Sydney Smith that the two of you will never agree, for
you are arguing from different premis(s)es.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
--_The Hobbit_