In a message dated 5/4/2004 2:14:53 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

TPW:A person in learning a language accepts from the community to which the
language "belongs" the meanings indicated by that language, and makes them
his own.
The community (read tradition) to which David belongs excludes you. Well TPW
though I don't know what you know of the Man Jesus or think of Him, I do
know what He knows and thinks of you. You're included in His vicarious
(important word) life and death. More another time, BROTHER. Lance


Main Entry: viÂcarÂiÂous
Pronunciation: vI-'ker-E-&s, v&-, -'kar-
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin vicarius, from vicis change, alternation, stead âmore at WEEK
Date: 1637
1 a : serving instead of someone or something else b : that has been delegated <vicarious authority>
2 : performed or suffered by one person as a substitute for another or to the benefit or advantage of another : SUBSTITUTIONARY <a vicarious sacrifice>
3 : experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another
4 : occurring in an unexpected or abnormal part of the body instead of the usual one <bleeding from the gums sometimes occurs in the absence of the normal discharge from the uterus in vicarious menstruation>
- viÂcarÂiÂousÂly adverb
- viÂcarÂiÂousÂness noun

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