Re: English Changes or what into Conlangs
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 10, 1999, 2:09 |
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On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
>Sally Caves wrote:
>> To boldly go where no one has gone before.
>>
>> They are to correct this one, though:
>>
>> 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! :-)
Well, yeah. Aliens. But they hardly count! ;)
Padraic.