On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 07:33:36PM +0100, Bob W wrote: > Grue is a word that linguists love to use in examples, being a word that > supposedly has no meaning in English. Sometimes they ask the gentle reader > to imagine that it's a colour. This always confused me when I was a student, > because if grue has no meaning, where does gruesome come from? > > It's also the French word for crane - bird as well as tall metal lifting > thing.
That would explain how all those skyscrapers suddenly grue out of noplace. -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
