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[RonButters at AOL.COM]

And the sociolinguistic/dialectological significance of this is?

that there is some kind of isogloss running between Larry's Mac and Iceland?

that a VARBRUL analysis uncovers a glottochronological correlation between
kitchen of the Chinese restaurant and Alice Faber's blue surgical gown?

that "good Chinese food" is not only not an oxymoron, it is redundant?

In a message dated 2/22/2002 1:13:11 PM, laurence.horn at YALE.EDU writes:

<< And not just mainland China either.  I discovered, while performing

the surgery expertly dictated by Alice Faber, that the data/time

adjustment on my Mac had been set all these years for Taipei.  If I'd

only known, I could have requested that it deliver some good Chinese

food, but now I've reset it for New York time.


larry >>