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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 01:13:37 EST
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- From: Tony Harminc <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
- Subject: Re: What A Quiet Bunch
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- Posted on 1 Jan 1993 at 13:49:04 by Natalie Maynor
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- >"Un" is one of my favorite morphemes. Think about my undone work in comparison
- >with something that has come undone. Work like grading or writing can't come
- >undone, yet other work can come undone. The undone sewing can become done
- >and later come undone, can't it? I guess I still have Donne on my mind.
- >You can have an unread book, but you can't unread a book. If somebody
- >mentions something that is unraveled, you're not likely to think that it
- >has not yet been raveled. But if somebody mentions undone sewing, you're
- >more likely to think that it has not yet been done than that it has come
- >undone. Or are you? Never mind. Today isn't a morphological sort of day.
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- Tushar - may I mention the untieable knot for the third time ?
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- Tony H.
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