Hi there!
On 27 Apr 00, at 9:27, Steve Lamb wrote
about "Re: OT: Modifications to English;-)":
> > ZE DREAM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!
>
> Unfortunately, like most decent jokes it has been retold, poorly, with no
> credit to its lineage. I do believe Mark Twain was the man who started this
> particular chuckle.
Thanks for the clarification, Steve. As you might have already guessed, I've
read nothing from Twain _in_English_, never (only translated to Russian: this
way I've read almost everything by MT), that's why I've never seen this joke (it
wouldn't sound equally good in Russian, since we basically have a phonetical
spelling here already and need not reform anything;-)).
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