Re: Another terminology query

Thank you, computer revolution...


On 3/21/08, ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> Peter Collier wrote: >
> >----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
> >To: <CONLANG@...>
> >Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 3:15 PM
> >Subject: Re: Another terminology query
> >
> >
> >>On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Peter Collier
> >><petecollier@...> wrote:
> >>>I would hazzard a guess at 'temporal'.
> >>
> >>One Z, unless you're talking about the county the Duke boys live in...
> >
> >
> >My sincere apologies for the outrageous error. I shall take more care not
> >to let my thoughts get ahead of my fingers in future.  Since you're in a
> >pedagodic mood, your missive would of course be much better phrased
> >"...about the county in which the Duke boys live".
> >
> >I guess we all have an off moment.
>
> That's all right; in my doctoral diss. I consistently misspelled _lizard_ as
> "lizzard" (just like blizzard, no?), which required white-out and careful
> retyping of about 5 or 6 instances. Worse was the skipped page number
> (caught by the diss. secretary) that required the same procedure on about
> 200 pages.
>

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>