Re: THEORY: lexical shift [was Re: Time machine]

Abrigon Gusiq scripsit:

> Intercourse? Though in one it is a word for sexual things, but in
> another it means just talking.
"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds."
        --William Ellery Channing

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John Cowan    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan   <jcowan@...>
    "Any legal document draws most of its meaning from context. A telegram
    that says 'SELL HUNDRED THOUSAND SHARES IBM SHORT' (only 190 bits in
    5-bit Baudot code plus appropriate headers) is as good a legal document
    as any, even sans digital signature." --me