--- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:33:18AM -0800,
> Costentin Cornomorus wrote:
> > Yeah, and it's not outdated at all.
>
> Perhaps not in your 'lect, but it definitely
> has an archaic feel to me.
It is safe to always assume "as for my dialect"
somewhere in the vicinity of any statement of
this kind. Be it "it is outdated" or "it's not
outdated at all".
> > All save one;
>
> That's practically a set phrase, but it still
> feels
> stilted/pretentious/archaic to me. I would
> normally say "All but one."
All save two, etc. Not exactly set.
> > I'll do it, saving that it's legal; contents
>
> ? Doesn't that mean that you'll do it *unless*
> it's legal?
> That seems backwards to me. :)
Yeah. Read "illegal" in there.
> > sterile saving that packet is uncompromised.
>
> As I said, the English version has "unless" in
> lieu of "saving that".
I simply used the current topique du jour to
illustrate.
Padraic.
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