Re: shirt in Hindi

in article <4285f4bc.627c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
peter t. daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

|Allan Adler wrote:
|>
|> Thanks again for the explanations. It shows that even when something is
|> explained clearly, it's still easy to misunderstand it. I've decided to
|> read a book on the periphery of phonetics and then see how I feel about
|> the subject, namely a book on the history of phonetics. That sounds like
|> that kind of thing I can read a page or two of per day over coffee and a
|> muffin.
|
|What book?
|
|I suppose it might be the Festschrift for David Abercrombie.
|
|What a ridiculous approach.
|
|To try to read a history of something one knows nothing about?
|
|Especially if it's that collection of miscellaneous chapters.
|
|Onlookers: Do you now understand the source of my disdain for this
|resident of Bowling Green, Kentucky, who has no connection with MIT?

yes: you're an obnoxious moron.


























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