Re: Linguistic Flavor
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 9, 2001, 22:18 |
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In a message dated 6/8/01 11:51:12 PM, tommiepowell@JUNO.COM writes:
<< > << through a quient ancient forest, more than babbling brooks
> and singing birds. Am I just nuts? >>
I interject that "quient" in "quient ancient forest" may mean
"quiet" or "quaint" and that David took it to mean "quiet"
in this response: >>
That came to me, though I thought (considering the keyboard layout) that
"quiet" was probably the most likely. Maybe it was a portmonteau, though. :)
-David
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