Re: CHAT: feckly off-topic (was: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 19, 1999, 22:48 |
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Sally Caves wrote:
> Why are there ugly words to describe
> beautiful things, and beautiful words to describe ugly things?
And why is "mile" so short, and "centimeter" so long? :-)
> _diphtheria_. Absolutely beautiful word! That is, if you pronounce it
> as it should be pronounced, with an /f/ instead of a /p/. Oh well,
> it's all a matter of taste, I suppose.
I s'pose. T's an okay word, I s'pose. Reminds me of a chat I had with
Tom, while he was designing his Phaleran, and he told me that he always
like the Greek clusters like /pt/ in word-initial position. To me,
there's nothing uglier than two stops at the beginning of a word. YUCK!
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Yaw=EDntasva natab=ED, plan saf=ED nlak=FAsi
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