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- From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
- Subject: Re: Correlation Lengths of Language Changes
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:00:27 GMT
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- In article <16B5E13097.JAREA@UKCC.UKY.EDU> JAREA@UKCC.UKY.EDU writes:
- >I am especially sorry that he found it necessary to resort to the device of
- >ad hominem slurs and insults, which in the direct form he has used I had
- >always regretted on a newslist part of whose label is "sci."
-
- Simply put, I took your original posting to be sarcastic, and responded in
- the same way you had once responded to me (in the selfsame sci.lang).
-
- Smile when you use that there third person, pardner.
-
- >I can, of course, provide a few controversial
- >notions of my own, especially in things Latinic and Romance to unconstipate
- >the too conservative when the mood is on me.
-
- Would you care to provide an example? (Metacommunication: no irony here,
- only honest curiosity.)
-