I wasn't looking to start a ****ing contest! I just never heard the word "litotes" before. By the way, I really enjoy your linguistic comments. (Is "linguistic" the right word? O r grammatical? I think you told us your Dad was a linguist.) Adds a little intellectual spice to this lis t.
I gave up on IBMMAIN after someone called one of my posts an "old canard" . I thought that was rude. If they are not interested in what I have to say, I'm not wasting my time saying it. (No one else responded at all.) On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 05:37:57 -0500, Phil Smith III <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .com> wrote: >Now, if this were IBM-MAIN, we'd go off on a tangent about how English i s a complex language and probably end up in some sort of ****ing contest, until the moderator ther e killed the thread ... > >...phsiii >======================== ========================= ============ ===========
