Re: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 16, 1999, 4:55 |
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Diane Duane wrote:
> After hearing my husband's Northern
> Irish vowels occasionally producing dipthongs where no dipthong has been
> before? :)
... To boldly diphthongize where no dialect has diphthongized before.
:-)
> Boy, is it ever. :) Not as a verb, but in formations like "It's all
> shite, that's all it is."
It's also used in Scotland, yes? I remember the line in Braveheart (I
forget if it was in the movie or the book or both), "They couldn't agree
on the color of shite".
--
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-- Benjamin Franklin
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