Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
| From: | Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 9, 2003, 2:06 |
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Joe wrote:
>>What I typically use for writing nowadays, tho', is a _stiftpenna_. I
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>dunno
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>>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
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>those.
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>Yeah, they're pencils. Maybe mechanical pencils...
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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.)
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Tristan <kesuari@...>
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