From cowan@ccil.org Mon Feb 09 18:05:43 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 93123 invoked from network); 10 Feb 2004 02:05:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m17.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 10 Feb 2004 02:05:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Feb 2004 02:05:41 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AqNBR-0005eZ-00; Mon, 09 Feb 2004 20:59:29 -0500 Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 20:59:29 -0500 To: And Rosta Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: <20040210015929.GE14957@ccil.org> References: <20040209194328.GI1600@digitalkingdom.org> <200402091751.21409.phma@webjockey.net> <00f101c3ef70$95a80ce0$6f3a0751@oemcomputer> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00f101c3ef70$95a80ce0$6f3a0751@oemcomputer> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 192.190.237.100 From: John Cowan Subject: Re: OT: Re: [lojban] Status of morphology commission? X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=212516 X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 21545 And Rosta scripsit: > From: "Pierre Abbat" > > I just got paid for a darg > > What, people (in the USA, no less) still use the word 'darg'? > Or is it one of those archaic words like deasil and widdershins > that Hackers have revived? I had never heard "darg" before today, but Canadians do preserve some archaisms that Usonians don't, and vice versa. -- A poetical purist named Cowan [that's me: jcowan@reutershealth.com] Once put the rest of us dowan. [on xml-dev] "Your verse would be sweeter http://www.ccil.org/~cowan If it only had metre http://www.reutershealth.com And rhymes that didn't force me to frowan." [overpacked line!] --Michael Kay