Re: Short message
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Date: 03/17/05
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Date: 17 Mar 2005 15:16:13 -0800
John Fields wrote:
> On 17 Mar 2005 01:50:57 -0800, bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:
>
> >Enough of this competitive brevity. While John Fields should be
> >congratulated for saying nothing - because he never seems to have
> >anything useful to say - twenty messages of congratulation seems to
> >represent rather too much of a good thing.
> >
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> >Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
>
> ---
> There was an old man from Nijmegen
> whose rhetoric often went beggin'
> for nice things to say;
> instead he'd just bray
> amidst all the rest of his squeggin'
Might work in Germany - where they spell Nijmegen as Nimwegen, and
pronounce it that way, but Nijmegen doesn't rhyme with beggin' because
the last "e" in Nijmegen isn't reduced as it would be in English, so it
isn't the same as the reduced "i" in beggin' (which is a schwa).
Leave the bilingual limericks to John Woodgate, who knows enough about
language to get the structure right.
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Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
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