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Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

From:Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...>
Date:Monday, June 9, 2003, 2:06
Joe wrote:

>>What I typically use for writing nowadays, tho', is a _stiftpenna_. I >> >> >dunno > > >>the English word - it's those plastic things with a thin graphite rod in. >>Would they class as "pencils"? I'm rarely to be found without one of >> >> >those. > >Yeah, they're pencils. Maybe mechanical pencils... > >
Hm... I've never heard them called pencils before. They're normally called pacers here. Which I'm pretty sure is another trademark... The trademark-free version is always 'mechanical pencil', but it's only seen on the packets of pacers made my companies who don't own the trademark. (If a word becomes a part of the language, why do companies get to keep the trademark? It doesn't really seem fair.) (I hate pencils/pacers. Except maybe for drawing, but I don't do any of that. If I make a mistake, I generally prefer to cross it out so I can see where I've been, the exception being with good copies, but places like Schools and Unis generally don't accept things written in pencil anyway.) -- Tristan <kesuari@...>

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