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- From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: More words stuff
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 02:06:50 +0000
- Message-ID: <9212230233.AA03738@pizzabox.demon.co.uk>
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- From: idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (the Crisco Kid)
-
- >um ... us. After all, one has to reach all the clueless (pseudo-)
- >intellectuals, as well as all the clueless ignorami.
-
- That was a joke, wasn't it? Inflecting "ignoramus" as though it
- were a Latin noun? If not, FYI, [pace Tim Pierce] "ignoramus"
- is a first-person plural verb form: "we do not know". It can't
- be pluralised.
-
- Tom Limoncellus came out with a brilliant one the other day. I wish I'd
- saved it. In fact, it was so good I may go back and look for it.
-
- G
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