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Re: OT: (Somewhat) OT: Avant-garbled spam.

From:Michael Poxon <mike@...>
Date:Thursday, January 15, 2009, 22:41
"When I speak of a pterodactyl I mean a stork" - I recognise that! Conan
Doyle's 'Lost World',
which also contains some early C20 ideas on linguistics. Probably one of the
first occurrences of
the word 'polysynthetic' in Eng. Lit.
Mike
> >> "Wrongs and rested legally upon a vile principle, as >> others see us .... As others see us. The eyes she was doing. >> Nor did she know just what situation characteristics of >> nativespicturesque featuresconstant that when i speak of a >> pterodactyl i mean a stork." >