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Re: Inflecting Jesus Christ (was: Never violate a universal ...)

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Saturday, September 6, 2003, 0:50
Mark J. Reed scripsit:

> Is it just me, or does this subject line strike anyone else > as somehow blasphemous? I know it's not, really, but . . . > "Inflecting Jesus Christ"? Yowza.
It's all about the invisible quotation marks; that is, the subject line is really "Inflecting 'Jesus Christ'". :-) But I did choose this form for surprise value, yes. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan "It's the old, old story. Droid meets droid. Droid becomes chameleon. Droid loses chameleon, chameleon becomes blob, droid gets blob back again. It's a classic tale." --Kryten, _Red Dwarf_