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Re: Stunt Linguists (was Newbie)

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Friday, December 12, 2003, 9:30
Staving Daniel D Hicken:
> >>"I'm going to grow up to become a professional stunt linguist!" > >> > >>(extrapolation from a statement in a Terry Pratchett Discworld Novel) > > > >Which one? Ive read up to and including TWFM but I can't place the >reference. > > > >Pete "Gold Gold Gold Gold" Bleackley > >According to the all-knowledgeable wife it's from The Lost Continent. >(She's pretty sure & I can't honestly remember.)
"Last", rather than "Lost". It would fit in somewhere around the bit where Rincewind et al. are discussing the meanings of expressions like "Snagged as a wombat's tonka", generally defining them in terms of similarly incomprehensible slang. Pete