Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: [Announcement] The Alice Translation Has Moved And Changed

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 22:57:29 -0400 (EDT)

And Rosta scripsit:

> In Britain, we go through things with a fine toothcomb, not a
> fine-tooth comb. Toothcombs are used not for combing teeth,
> but for going through things with.

Just another of those cases where the colonials preserve the pure
well of English undefined, er, undefiled, while the mother country
continues its butterslide toward centralization, glottalization, and
semantic/pragmatic splits....

(And see randomly chosen .sig below, written by yet another Brit....)

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