Re: ConLand names in translation
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 2, 2000, 12:19 |
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At 01:56 02.4.2000 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
>One ungarbled version is:
>
> "There are three English words ending with -gry.
> Two of them are hungry and angry. The third word is
> very common; in fact you have just encountered it.
> What is the third word?"
>
>Answer: "three" (viz. the third word of the whole utterance).
Sorry, I still don't get it!
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto:bpj@...>bpj@netg.se
<mailto:melroch@...>melroch@my-deja.com
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