Caption on a nature site: "Ruby-_Throat_ Hummingbird"

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
> The N1 composites are briefer, but can require more interpretive work -- *but* these composites are interpreted in context, not in vacuo, and context, shared knowledge, etc. can make interpretation a snap. (interpretation is easier for N1s that are themselves composites, since the range of interpretation is narrowed by the constraints of the real world.)

True. That "one-arm man" is more common WRT The Fugitive underlines
that point. I just felt like "peeving over" - read that somewhere -
nothing.

(If I were consistent, I'd peeve over "peeve over," too, but I want to
avoid the hobgoblinization of my mind.)

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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