_glurp_ (wasRe: Arvorec comes of age)
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 6, 2003, 21:26 |
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In a message dated 2003:04:05 09:04:54 PM, devobratus@MYACTIVEWARE.COM writes:
>Christian Thalmann wrote:
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>> > Glurp. My bad- I used the same basic format as I do for the Arvorec
>> > Dictionary, which has etymologies for each word- I must have forgotten
>to take some of the abbreviations out.
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>>Why not keep the etymologies in the list? I for one
>>would be interested in seeing where the words came
>>from.
Hehe, Google for _glurp_... neat word...
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_The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_
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