Re: Broond-tzat i Reilak (sorrow and regret)
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 7, 1999, 13:46 |
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Raymond A. Brown wrote:
> Don't shut up permanently, Steg. You've made some valuable contributions,
> particular as regards Semitic langs. We'll be a poorer list without them.
Seconded.
Indeed, as Ray Smullyan points out, the rhetorical strategy of
threatening to shut up is an extremely powerful one, and ought
not to be used lightly.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)