Re: CHAT: feckly off-topic (was: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation)
| From: | Paul Bennett <pbennett@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 19, 1999, 23:43 |
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On 19 Jun 99, at 18:27, Sally Caves wrote:
> Paul Bennett wrote:
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> > Please don't say your choice of _diptheria_ is a matter of taste.
> > You put me right off my dinner :-X
>
> Well, I can't help that! Go take some bonine. ;-) It's spelled with a
> "phth"
Sorry, it was a blatant tyop. And after you took pains to point it
out as well. Unforgivable! ;-)
> and thinking the sound of the word, not the concept, is beautiful, was
> what I thought was a matter of, shall we say, discrimination. <G> It
> should
> be a delicate flower.
Yup. Got that. I'm honestly not the humourless old sod that some
people would imagine(!). I just come across that way in writing,
rather too often for my liking. <G>
> Whereas as pulchritude should mean a disease.
Possibly something with a "popular name" of "crackly lung"?
---
Pb
...shambling off into the darkness, pounding his chest to the
accompaniment of a bout of crackly lung, spare leg slung jauntily
over his shoulder...