coffee grounds/grinds

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Sep 14 23:07:01 UTC 2011


On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:52 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, c'mon, Wilson! I was looking for a short way to say that the speaker doesn't care.

And you succeeded. Brilliantly! It was trivial for me to respond,
using your template. Nothing more was necessary. I tried to BS myself
into believing that I'm aware of some difference. But, I really don't
have a distinction between the two objects. FWIW, I'd probably use
"grinder," if ever I had any occsion to discuss the preparation of
coffee.

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-Wilson
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