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CHAT: Japanese English (was Re: Correction, I hope,of M/C URL)

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Thursday, March 23, 2000, 0:41
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> I wondered that about 'halation'. But if this one is a word, 'escalation' > could well be :) .
Escalation is definitely a word, and a not-uncommon word either. Simply the state of escalating, getting more serious or more important, especially in the context of tensions or war between two nations.
> Yet that's right! Well, in fact, that's not worse than "biinasu robbumi > cheen" ("Venus Love me Chain!") or "biinasu robbu en byuti shokku" ("Venus > Love and Beauty Shock!")
Jeez, sounds kinky. :-) -- "If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God!" - Ralph Waldo Emerson ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor