Re: English Changes or what into Conlangs
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 10, 1999, 1:01 |
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Sally Caves wrote:
> To boldly go where no one has gone before.
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> They are to correct this one, though:
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> To boldly go where no man has gone before.
Actually, the second is more correct than the first. Man CAN mean
"human", and the Enterprise certainly (sometimes) went where no HUMAN
had gone before, but they've never gone where no ONE had gone before -
after all, they were constantly running into other species who were
there before them! :-)
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