From jcowan@reutershealth.com Thu Oct 10 20:03:23 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_2_0); 11 Oct 2002 03:03:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 7922 invoked from network); 11 Oct 2002 03:03:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m12.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 11 Oct 2002 03:03:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.151) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Oct 2002 03:03:22 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA11207; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 23:10:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200210110310.XAA11207@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 10 Oct 2002 22:57:29 +4400 Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: [Announcement] The Alice Translation Has Moved And Changed To: a.rosta@lycos.co.uk (And Rosta) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 22:57:29 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com (jboste) In-Reply-To: from "And Rosta" at Oct 11, 2002 01:50:50 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan 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....) -- XQuery Blueberry DOM John Cowan Entity parser dot-com jcowan@reutershealth.com Abstract schemata http://www.reutershealth.com XPointer errata http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Infoset Unicode BOM --Richard Tobin