"fonted" = 'identified on screen'?

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Thu May 22 00:42:36 UTC 2008


Thank you; I stand corrected.

(Dammit, I *knew* that! Feh.)

m a m

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> At 6:03 PM -0400 5/21/08, Michael Covarrubias wrote:
>>Mark Mandel wrote:
>>>Huh. I wouldn't want to be /'kaIrOnd/. Chiron is the ferryman who carries
>>>dead souls across the Styx.
>>>
>>>m a m
>>>
>>You're thinking of Charon (also the name of Pluto's satellite/twin body)
>>
>>Chiron was a centaur adept in medicine. A gentleman among rascal centaurs.
>>
> and a font of wisdom
>
> LH

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