Message-Id: <199601170037.TAA01241@locke.ccil.org>
Date:         Tue, 16 Jan 1996 22:49:12 GMT
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From: Iain Alexander <ia@stryx.demon.co.uk>
Subject:      Re: LIN: LSD whispers
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In message <821628745.13348.0@cunyvm.cuny.edu> ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK writes:
>
> Why did Ivan translate "There was a pleasant hiatus" as "There is always
> a thoracic deficit"? And why did Iain translate that as "It's always a
> pleasure to get your shoes off"?

Well, if you insist ...

I couldn't make anything of Ivan's "thoracic deficit" as it
stood, so my best guess was that his {cutcau} was intended
to be {cutci zei claxu} - and the rest, as they say, is
history.  %~}

co'o mi'e .i,n.
--
Iain Alexander                    ia@stryx.demon.co.uk
                    I.Alexander@bra0125.wins.icl.co.uk