Re: Interesting Words
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 7, 2001, 7:41 |
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At 10.17 a.m. 6.11.2001 -0500, Muke Tever wrote:
>What we need is to start an rumor about how English only has one word for "a
>piece of coiled metal", "a natural upwelling of water", "to jump nimbly
>into the
>air", "the growing season", and "to escape someone from prison". Eventually
>it'll snowball into "English only has one word for everything" and then we can
>all go home.
'Did you know that English only has one word for anything?'
'What, really?'
'Yeah, that's the rumour going round.'
'So how are we able to have this conversation?'
'...!'
Tristan
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