Re: OT: "kluge"/"kludge"
| From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 10, 2003, 15:49 |
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>This is interesting. I thought kluge, kludge were just variant spellings;
>turns out they have two different etymologies. I wonder if there are many
>other cases of two different words evolving into one.
Convergence does occur in English - I've encountered a few instances of such
over the years, though I've no idea of the frequency (and no, I didn't
commit the instances to memory).
>It seems to violate the laws of thermodynamics.
Those recalcitrant languages - flagrantly disobeying the laws of physics. :)
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