Re: OT: What is this thread about?
| From: | Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 13, 2004, 15:28 |
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--- Peter Bleackley
<Peter.Bleackley@...> wrote:
> Staving Dirk Elzinga:
> >On Monday, January 12, 2004, at 01:58 PM,
> Gary Shannon wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>I guessing it will either be about Spinoza,
> the proper
> >>pronunciation of the silent 'e', or Darmok
> and Jalad
> >>at Tanagra.
> >
> >Temba, his arms wide.
> >Mirab, his sails unfurled.
> Star Trek, its language implausible.
Perhaps the actual form, but we (certainly in
English) speak in such metafores all the time.
That's certainly not implausible! [Me, in the
lions den again.]
Padraic.
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