Re: I learn something new every day . . . , was Re: This Week in the Middle East

[Doug]

Ronn Blankenship wrote:

 > At 08:26 AM 4/6/02, Ray wrote:
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 >> Well said Doug. Like many others, I too have had a gutful of obfuscatory 
arguments
 >>  and macaronic pedantry.
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 > "Macaronic"?


Characterized by a mixture of two languages (m-w.com)  Cool word.  I thought it 
was some derivation of macaroni before I looked it up and, in fact: "Etymology: 
New Latin macaronicus, from Italian dialect maccarone macaroni"  Hmmmm

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Doug

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