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Re: Word connections - malaise and sit

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Saturday, May 26, 2001, 19:37
Nathan Roy wrote:
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>similar to how pork, mutton, venison and beef are more sophisticated terms >than pig, sheep, deer and cow.
More sophisticated? I thought the only difference was that the first set refered to the animals as food, and the second to 'em in any other situation (bar highly scientific ones where they'll be refered to by systematic latin names) ... Andreas _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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