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Re: [lojban] metre
- To: nessus@free.fr (Lionel Vidal)
- Subject: Re: [lojban] metre
- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 07:27:06 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com (Lojban@Yahoogroups. Com)
- In-reply-to: <000f01c26872$e38e27e0$e7c80950@ftiq2awxk6> from "Lionel Vidal" at Sep 30, 2002 01:15:31 PM
Lionel Vidal scripsit:
> I should have known better: after all, as I read in one of your pages
> English is essentially a dialect of French. :-)
But a strange one: see http://www.bartleby.com/81/5834.html
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