Re: Long vs. short vowels in English

From: Nathan Sanders (nsanders.DIE.SPAM_at_wso.williams.edu)
Date: 07/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:14:33 GMT

In article <1j0tf0l6jn5ndbea0ionmfcoh8e3ivl9u7@4ax.com>,
 Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> wrote:

> The hallmark of someone who knows whereof he speaks is that he can
> explain what he knows to _anyone_.

Given sufficient time/space to fill in necessary background knowledge,
and lack of stubborn ignorance on the part of the audience.

Would you expect Usenet to be an appropriate forum to explain calculus
to a petulant 5-year-old that insists that 14 is really just 1 plus 4?

Nathan 

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Nathan Sanders
Linguistics Program       nsanders@wso.williams.edu                           
Williams College          http://wso.williams.edu/~nsanders
Williamstown, MA 01267